Boxing Powerhouse Countries

[CutMeMick]

I've always enjoyed the international flavor of this forum. It is British in origin, but also has plenty of U.S. representation, as well as boxing fans from other countries. There's been several threads on international rivalries, some that I've started, most that I've participated in.

Not only that, we have several veteran, knowledgeable posters, who obviously do their homework and are well-schooled in the history and facts about boxing. And as is to be expected, many of these aren't shy on posting their own P4P lists, with certain authority, I might add.

Thats what this place is all about feeding off eachother and learning together.

So, although I'm not a walking boxing encyclopedia, I have been around the forum for about a year now, and like to do my research as well. For example, I've chronicled fairly well the statistics that lead me to believe that the great Mexican fighter, Julio Cesar Chavez, although great in his own right, has had his legend overblown with the outrageous numbers that come with fighting tomato cans well into his 40th fight. Not to take away from the man, but facts are facts.

Ha ha ha ha!! this can be seen in many or all of boxers records such as Arguello, Duran, even your own Gomez for his 5th defense of his WBC Super Bantam title he fought Sakad Petchyindee with a record of 2-0-0, he then followed it fighting for his 10th defense against Julio Hernandez who was 2-8-0 it happens in the sport all the greats have done it

Anyway, it occurred to me that my own little island, Puerto Rico, has seen its share of great champions over the years (not that Britkid has seen it fit to include any of them in his top 50). But again, that's what makes boxing so subjective. To me, any list that omits Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez, or Felix Trinidad.... is a little suspect. But that's only my opinion.

Question why don't you ever bring up Carlos Ortiz? IMO he had a better career then Benitez & Trinidad.

But back to the subject. I did a little research of my own, and found something quite fascinating.

I looked through the numbers of past and present boxing champions by country (Boxrec). Then I looked up the population of some of these countries. And lo and behold.... some interesting facts.

Using a little statistic I'll call "Champions per Million People", and looking only at countries that have had at least 10 world champions over history, I arrived at the following rankings:

1. Puerto Rico: 6.32 champs per million people
2. Panama: 6.19
3. U.S.: 1.31
4. Dominican Republic: 1.12

and so on and so forth....

Other notables on the list:

6. Cuba: 0.98
7. Mexico: 0.73
10. Australia: 0.60
11. England: 0.59
14. France: 0.48

Just some interesting facts I wanted to share with the forum.

for the time & research I like well put together threads like this with stats. I don't know if you ever saw the thread I did it was similar to this one actually someone brought up that question of how many champs per people ratio was.... I'll paste a link to the thread.

Heres the link
http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxing_fo...html#msg305327