The greatest fighters of each nation.

[RubenSonny]

**** Tiger - Nigeria
Azumah Nelson - Ghana
Niccolino Locche - Argentina

[SBleeder]

If Mustafa Hamsho hasn't been mentioned yet, he's my pick for Syria.

[mickey malone]

Good picks.

Yeah it's odd the Holland doesn't have a tradition for boxing. The only fighter I can think of with any signifikance is Regelio Tuur.

Another country where there's tradition for professional boxing is Finland. And yet the fins havent produced many world class fighters. I would think that the best so far might be present day Amin Asikainen. Maybe Robert Helenius can catch up.

Also Spain is underrepresented at the world level. All I can think of is Javier Castillejo or Poli Diaz. There must be better though.


Others:

Hungary: Laszlo Papp or Zsolt Erdei.
Poland: Dariusz Michalsczewski or Tony Zale (if he can be considered polish).
Ukraine: Wlad Klitschko
Yugoslavia (Bosnia): Mirjan Benes
Rumania: Lucien Bute.
Uganda: Ayub Kalule
Thailand: Sot Chitalada or Khaosai Galaxi.
Venezuela: Edwin Valero

Baltasar Sangchili, the 30's bantamweight who beat the great Panama Al Brown in 2 out of 3 would be a good choice for Spain.

I forgot about Tuur. He was pretty tough and won a WBO belt at super-feather. He'd be the pick of the Dutch so far.

Finland has many amateurs but not many turn pro. Most of their fighters tend to be built for strength as opposed to speed. Asikainen is very average and i recall him getting stopped in the 1st by the very capable Mathew Macklin in Manchester last year.
Helenius was beginning to show some signs of being a HW prospect, but i havn't heard much about him for a while now.

You've chosen some good Eastern Block fighters there. I might have changed Mirjan Benes for Mate Parlov though.

Chitalada is my favourite Thai fighter and a really nice guy too, but i'd say the Galaxy brothers and Wongjonkam are slightly more accomplished.

Kalule was possibly the best from Uganda, but a match between him and John Mugabe would have been highly interesting. They were both Ugandan light-middles who were both around at the same time, so it seems a bit strange they never actually fought one another.

[StarshipTrooper]

The Americas:

Argentina - Pascual Perez
Brazil - Eder Jofre
Canada - Sam Langford
Chile - Arturo Godoy
Columbia - Antonio Cervantes
Cuba - Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic - Vilomar Fernandez
Ecuador - Eugenio Espinoza
Guyana - Terrence Alli
Jamaica - Mike McCallum
Mexico - Miguel Canto
Nicaragua - Alexis Arguello
Panama - Roberto Duran
Paraguay - Kid Pascualito
Peru - Mauro Mina
Puerto Rico - Wilfred Benitez
United States - Ray Robinson
Venezuala - Vincente Rondon


Europe:

Belgium - Rene DeVos
Finland - Gunnar Barlund
France - Marcel Cerdan
Germany - Max Schmeling
Great Britain - Bob Fitzsimmomns(He was from Cornwall)
Ireland - Peter Maher
Italy - Duilio Loi
Hungary - Lazlo Papp
Netherlands - Rudi Koopmans
Norway - Pete Sanstol
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Portugal - Johnny Pena
Romania - Aurel Toma
Soviet Union - Vitali Klitschko
Spain - Fred Galiana
Sweden - Ingemar Johansson
Switzerland - Frank Erne

+

Australia - Peter Jackson
New Zealand - Tommy Donovan


None Worth Mentioning:

Albania
Austria
Belize
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Haite
Honduras
Iceland
Luxemberg
Suriname
Trinidad And Tobago
Yugoslavia

[stylewise]

For fighters born in northern ireland its a small list :-(

Northern Ireland - Jimmy McLarnin (born in County Down NI, moved to canada when he was 3). Although i'm only going on what ive read about him. Wins over Barny Ross, Young Corbett and an ancient benny leonard cant be too bad.

McLarnin is a Canadian.

[mickey malone]

The Americas:

Argentina - Pascual Perez
Brazil - Eder Jofre
Canada - Sam Langford
Chile - Arturo Godoy
Columbia - Antonio Cervantes
Cuba - Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic - Vilomar Fernandez
Ecuador - Eugenio Espinoza
Guyana - Terrence Alli
Jamaica - Mike McCallum
Mexico - Miguel Canto
Nicaragua - Alexis Arguello
Panama - Roberto Duran
Paraguay - Kid Pascualito
Peru - Mauro Mina
Puerto Rico - Wilfred Benitez
United States - Ray Robinson
Venezuala - Vincente Rondon


Europe:

Belgium - Rene DeVos
Finland - Gunnar Barlund
France - Marcel Cerdan
Germany - Max Schmeling
Great Britain - Bob Fitzsimmomns(He was from Cornwall)
Ireland - Peter Maher
Italy - Duilio Loi
Hungary - Lazlo Papp
Netherlands - Rudi Koopmans
Norway - Pete Sanstol
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Portugal - Johnny Pena
Romania - Aurel Toma
Soviet Union - Vitali Klitschko
Spain - Fred Galiana
Sweden - Ingemar Johansson
Switzerland - Frank Erne

+

Australia - Peter Jackson
New Zealand - Tommy Donovan


None Worth Mentioning:

Albania
Austria
Belize
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Haite
Honduras
Iceland
Luxemberg
Suriname
Trinidad And Tobago
Yugoslavia

Fine listings my man. Your choices of course and i can only add Julian Jackson from The ****** Islands or maybe Prince Naseem Hamed from The Yeman.

[StarshipTrooper]

Fine listings my man. Your choices of course and i can only add Julian Jackson from The ****** Islands or maybe Prince Naseem Hamed from The Yeman.

I forgot about the ****** Islands, Yeman was going to go into the Middle East/Asia list

Poet

[Jeff Da Maori]

The Americas:

Argentina - Pascual Perez
Brazil - Eder Jofre
Canada - Sam Langford
Chile - Arturo Godoy
Columbia - Antonio Cervantes
Cuba - Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic - Vilomar Fernandez
Ecuador - Eugenio Espinoza
Guyana - Terrence Alli
Jamaica - Mike McCallum
Mexico - Miguel Canto
Nicaragua - Alexis Arguello
Panama - Roberto Duran
Paraguay - Kid Pascualito
Peru - Mauro Mina
Puerto Rico - Wilfred Benitez
United States - Ray Robinson
Venezuala - Vincente Rondon


Europe:

Belgium - Rene DeVos
Finland - Gunnar Barlund
France - Marcel Cerdan
Germany - Max Schmeling
Great Britain - Bob Fitzsimmomns(He was from Cornwall)
Ireland - Peter Maher
Italy - Duilio Loi
Hungary - Lazlo Papp
Netherlands - Rudi Koopmans
Norway - Pete Sanstol
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Portugal - Johnny Pena
Romania - Aurel Toma
Soviet Union - Vitali Klitschko
Spain - Fred Galiana
Sweden - Ingemar Johansson
Switzerland - Frank Erne

+

Australia - Peter Jackson
New Zealand - Tommy Donovan


None Worth Mentioning:

Albania
Austria
Belize
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Haite
Honduras
Iceland
Luxemberg
Suriname
Trinidad And Tobago
Yugoslavia

Bob Fitzsimmons and David Tua both fought for NZ and achieved comparably more.

[StarshipTrooper]

Bob Fitzsimmons and David Tua both fought for NZ and achieved comparably more.

Fitzsimmons was from Cornwall, England and Tua was from Samoa.

Poet

[NChristo]

Fitzsimmons was from Cornwall, England and Tua was from Samoa.

Poet

Pretty good list but I'd make a few changes.
Kid Kaplan > Klitschko
Not sure about Maher for Ireland.
Monzon > Perez, but honestly I don't know all that much about Perez, need to do a bit of research on him.