Road Warriors: Boxers who won a world title fighting in their opponent's home country

[Freedom]

I have plenty of respect for courageous road warriors who win or defend a world title fighting in their opponent's home country.


Sergey Kovalev (the WBO from Cleverly in the UK, then the IBF and WBA from Hopkins in the USA)

James DeGale (IBF in the USA against the American boxer, Dirrell)

Terence Crawford (in the UK against the British boxer Burns)

Kell Brook (in the USA against Porter)


Who are some of the others?

[Beanflicker]

MARVIN HAGLER whipping Alan Minter in Wembley!

[SugarBoxing]

MARVIN HAGLER whipping Alan Minter in Wembley!

yes that was good...

Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhhamad Ali had good world tours

[bzkfn]

I have plenty of respect for courageous road warriors who win or defend a world title fighting in their opponent's home country.


Sergey Kovalev (the WBO from Cleverly in the UK, then the IBF and WBA from Hopkins in the USA)

James DeGale (IBF in the USA against the American boxer, Dirrell)

Terence Crawford (in the UK against the British boxer Burns)

Kell Brook (in the USA against Porter)


Who are some of the others?

Timothy Bradley beating Junior Witter (WBC in Nottingham)

Bernard Hopkins beating Jean Pascal (WBC in Montreal)

Roman Martinez beating Nicky Cook (WBO in Manchester)

[ryanman]

Honeyghan beating Curry in Atlantic City.

[ryanman]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

[Beanflicker]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

Right, Lennox was the greatest Canadian fighter of all time.

[Ron Swanson]

I don't think winning in the US counts as on the road like other countries. The US just isn't as nationalistic about boxing as other countries because it is a country of immigrants. Italian Americans think they're Italian, Irish Americans think they're Irish, Armenian Americans....

And with so many foreign fighters setting up here for most of their careers we just don't get attached to nationality. If you asked 20 american fight fans to list their top 3 favorite fighters or even top 5 I bet the great majority or nearly all listed would be foreigners like Morales or GGG or Tito or or or. Look at the GGG fight in California, when Ward was mentioned the crowd booed. In Wards home state nationality was irrelevant compared to action. Or look at Floyds home city being overun by Pac and Hatton. We just don't care.

[Fenster]

Ken Buchanan won the WBA/lineal Lightweight title in Puerto Rico and WBC in the USA

Wayne McCullough won the WBC title in Japan.

Nigel Benn won the WBO middleweight title in America and the WBC supermiddle title in Italy

[ryanman]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

Right, Lennox was the greatest Canadian fighter of all time.

What region of Canada speaks with a cockney accent by the way?

[El Kabong]

Glen Johnson
Chris Byrd
Winky Wright

Those guys thrived outside their own nations.

[ruthless rocco]

Lennox was tired of the gay bars in Canada so he needed to live in an even gayer country to satisfy his needs.

[Bill Paxtom]

Lennox was tired of the gay bars in Canada so he needed to live in an even gayer country to satisfy his needs.

You seem to be talking a lot about ......'Gay Bars', and 'Cocks', and Floyd Mayweather.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the 'poster' on your bedroom ceiling.

[Sleepwalker]

Shawn Michaels over Brett Hart in Canada....oh wait....