Great road warriors.

[Rover]

Who are guys who took their shows on the road and triumphed?
Some examples for me:
Glen "The Road Warrior" Johnson: His nickname says it all. Had a lot of bad luck on the road, too.
Brian Mitchell: Never defended his title in South Africa due to Apartheid; many times fought in the opponent's hometown and never lost.
Azumah Nelson: Fought Fenech in Australia, Ruelas in Mexico, Leija in San Antonio, Villasana (twice) and Martinez in L.A. (I know, they were Mexicans, but the Olympic was their turf), Cowdell in England, and Gomez in Puerto Rico.
Pedroza: Fought Laporte in Jersey (next to NY), Lockridge in Jersey, Taylor in Charlotte, McGuigan in London (right near Ireland), Kobayashi and Nemoto in Japan, and Kim in Korea.
Lewis: Never lost in America.
Arguello: Fought against Americans in America so many times; also fought Hernandez in Venezuela and Kobayashi in Japan.
Hagler: During his pre-title reign, how many times did he go to Philly to take on the Monroes, the Wattses, the Briscoes...he did it the hard way.
Other examples?

[giacomino]

Monzon. Only three of 15 title fights were in Argentina. Won his title in his opponent's home (Nino B in Italy), defended three times against French fighters in France, once against a Danish challenger in Copenhagen, once against a US contender in New York, and most of the rest in Europe

While he lives now in the US, Sergio Martinez hasn't fought in his native Argentina in a decade. When he lived in Spain, his most important bouts were in the UK and US

My favorite flyweight of the 1980s, Santos Laciar won titles by beating fighters in their hometowns in South Africa and Mexico and made six of nine title defenses away from home.

Sven Ottke fought one of his 20-something title fights in Leipzig, which is almost a half-hour from his home. Does that count?

[Rover]

Monzon. Only three of 15 title fights were in Argentina. Won his title in his opponent's home (Nino B in Italy), defended three times against French fighters in France, once against a Danish challenger in Copenhagen, once against a US contender in New York, and most of the rest in Europe

While he lives now in the US, Sergio Martinez hasn't fought in his native Argentina in a decade. When he lived in Spain, his most important bouts were in the UK and US

My favorite flyweight of the 1980s, Santos Laciar won titles by beating fighters in their hometowns in South Africa and Mexico and made six of nine title defenses away from home.

Sven Ottke fought one of his 20-something title fights in Leipzig, which is almost a half-hour from his home. Does that count?

Regarding Ottke:

Great calls on the others.
Come to think of it, Pac deserves a mention here. He fought his American opponents in America (he has so far), and he's fought his top Mexican opponents in the Southwestern United States. He's fought in the Philippines once in about eight years, and his December fight's scheduled for The MGM.

[Expug]

Angel Robinson Garcia. The ultimate globetrotter

[Rover]

Hilario Zapata.
Fought many times in Asia (Japan, Thailand, Korea and the Philippines). Also fought title fights in Argentina (v. Laciar--another road warrior mentioned earlier) and Colombia (Bassa).
Zapata also fought the first light flyweight title fight in the U.S. v. Rudy Crawford in San Francisco. He was also the first light flyweight to be shown on national T.V. (ABC v. Joey Olivo).

[thunderfromdownunder]

I realise he was not a "great" fighter, but lovemore N'dou was one tough bastard. Fought just about everybody is his weight range. Malignaggi, Cotto, Rabah,alarez, Hatton, brook ect ect. Never stopped either

[Rover]

Tszyu.
Won all his big fights on the road (Rodriguez, Ruelas, Judah, Mitchell x2). Also went to Manchester to fight Hatton. The title fights he had in Australia weren't considered among his biggest wins (shot Mayweather, Johnson, Pineda, Leija).

[JC]

Freddie Miller

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

[Expug]

Eddie Perkins too. Freddie Millers a good shout J-C

[Expug]

Just looked closely at Perkins record. Wow, I didn't know he went to as many places as he did.

[Jaclem]

.....archie moore...

[HomicideHenry]

The originals: Jem Mace and John L. Sullivan, promoting boxing throughout the world via train, ship, horse and buggy, whatever it took. And did a damned good job of it too.

[boxbible]

Just looked closely at Perkins record. Wow, I didn't know he went to as many places as he did.

Eddie Perkins holds the honorable distinction of being the answer to:

Which world champion fought in more countries than any other?

[IRLangmaid25]

Vic Darinchyan has been on the road as well when you take into account he lives in the United States now

Had has last fight in Tokyo for the WBC Bantamweight strap
Evans Mbamba in his native Armenia
Eric Barcelona in Australia
Z Gorres in the Phillipines

Also Tomasz Adamek has been on the road to
Made hsi debut in the UK
Thought in Zoltan Beres in Spain
Andrei Karstan in Fland
United States predominately.
Native Poland against O'Neill Bell and Vitali K

[Counter-puncher]

Daniel Zaragoza

[Rover]

Daniel Zaragoza

Finito.

[jamamb]

ukranian olek usyk. , the undisputed cruiser champ, won all his titles in his opponents home country and has had all his 7 title fights on the road

krstoff glowacki in poland (wins wbo)
michael hunter and thabiso mchunu in usa (wbo defenses)
marco huck in germany (wbo defense)
maries briedis in latvia (unifies wbo and wbc)
murat gassiev in russia (becomes undisputed cw champ)
tony bellew in uk (defends undisputed cw champ status)

[jamamb]

btw, ive seen some people mention guys like pacquiao for this , as if every fight in the us counts, but imo it doesnt. fighting outside your home country is not such a big deal when you are the huge a -side

[DrDuke]

ukranian olek usyk. , the undisputed cruiser champ, won all his titles in his opponents home country and has had all his 7 title fights on the road

krstoff glowacki in poland (wins wbo)
michael hunter and thabiso mchunu in usa (wbo defenses)
marco huck in germany (wbo defense)
maries briedis in latvia (unifies wbo and wbc)
murat gassiev in russia (becomes undisputed cw champ)
tony bellew in uk (defends undisputed cw champ status)

That's f***ing impressive indeed.

[semtexreilly]

Ken buchanan deserves a mention here I Think,most of his big wins were outside of scotland

[littlepug]

Manuel Medina fought in South Africa, U.S.A, Scotland, England, Ireland, Phillipines, France, Italy and Japan.

[chrisjs1985]

Eddie Perkins is the champion that's fought in the most countries at 23.

Of recent-ish times I nominate Daniel Zaragoza. Won all his title on the road, never defended in Mexico and whilst Los Angeles has a large Mexican fan base he fought with local stars like Frankie Duarte and Paul Banke (three times) here and was definately not the crowd favorite vs. Carlos Zarate.

Four fights in Japan, three in Korea, went to France, Italy, Australia, won his first title in Aruba and went into a few east coast fighters backyards like Tracy Patterson, Hector Acero-Sanchez and definitely went into the lions den vs. Wayne McCollough in Boston in front of a bunch of Irish.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ashley Theophane has fought in 10 countries.

[Alex]

How about Freddie Miller?

He had around 250 fights, with just 29 defeats, in a 13-year pro career that took him to 12 countries.

He was world champ from January 1933 until May ’36 and had 91 bouts in that time, with 11 successful defences, travelling to LA, Seattle, Louisville, Watsonville, Boston, Florida and Washington for title fights.

He also defended in Liverpool and Barcelona during spells in Europe. He fought in the UK 34 times, tackling our best feathers and some of our best lightweights, yet lost only once — by disqualification.

What a fighter!

[chrisjs1985]

I'd also put forward Carlos Ortiz' name as one of the great globetrotters. Ortiz, a big draw and local favorite in New York, as world's lightweight champion (and before that junior welterweight) fought in the following countries : -

England (twice)
Italy (twice)
Philippines (twice)
Japan (twice)
Panama
Argentina
Mexico
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico

He had a number of fights in Puerto Rico, but he'd be considered the home fighter there. He also went to hometowns of tough fighters like Len Matthews (Philadelphia), Cisco Andrade, Battling Torres, Lou Fillipo (all in Los Angeles), Johnny Bizzarro in Pennsylvania, Doug Vailant in Miami Beach etc; etc;