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    Default Re: What country has produced the best all around fighters during the past 60 years?

    Not in any order:

    USA
    Mexico
    South Africa
    Britain
    Thailand
    Argentina
    Puerto Rico (terr.)

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    Default Re: What country has produced the best all around fighters during the past 60 years?

    Mexico or USA

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    Default Re: What country has produced the best all around fighters during the past 60 years?

    USA for sure.
    Mexico
    I think Brittain is moving up quickly
    We shall see from Cuba as more and more of them go pro, but it seems like a pretty diverse field over there.

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    U.S

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    Default Re: What country has produced the best all around fighters during the past 60 years?

    USA (probably at #1)
    Mexico
    Puerto Rico
    UK
    Jamaica (if you count boxers such as Lloyd Honeyghan as well)

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    Default Re: What country has produced the best all around fighters during the past 60 years?

    Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
    USA (probably at #1)
    Mexico
    Puerto Rico
    UK
    Jamaica (if you count boxers such as Lloyd Honeyghan as well)



    Wow, I forgot about Jamaica. On a per capita basis, it ranks very high, indeed.

    A series of five monster upsets all by tough Jamaican fighters astounded me.

    Trevor Berbick’s 1980 ambush KO of Big John Tate in Montreal set the stage for four more shockers. The welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan, nicknamed “Ragamuffin” due to his Jamaican roots, defeated heavily favored Donald Curry in 1986. In an equally stunning upset, welterweight Kirkland Laing (43-12-1) beat Roberto Duran in 1982.
    And there was the notable amateur fighter, Michael Bentt, former WBO
    Heavyweight Champ, who knocked out heavily favored Tommy Morrison in
    1993 in an incredible first-round upset. The thing about Bentt was that he was very good amateur fighter, and Morrison’s camp had done a terrible
    job researching his amateur record. Had he not suffered a career-ending and life-threatening injury in his fight with Herbie Hide, there is no telling how far he could have gone.


    And who could forget the great Simon “Mantequilla” Brown, WBC and IBF
    Welterweight Titleholder who KO’d Terry Norris in 1993 for the WBC Light
    Middleweight Title in Ring magazine’s Upset of the Year? What made these fights memorable? They were all major upsets, and they were all pulled off by Jamaican fighters.

    “If you want loyalty, buy a dog.” Ricky Hatton





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