best US boxer from each state (in past 40 years)

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How about this project. I was unable to finish it.
"Best" in the sense of most accomplished.

Alabama Evander Holyfield
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas Jermain Taylor
California Oscar de la Hoya
Colorado
Connecticut Marlon Starling
Delaware
Florida Roy Jones Jr.
Georgia Larry Holmes
Hawaii Brian Viloria
Idaho
Illinois Montell Griffin
Indiana Marvin Johnson
Iowa Michael Nunn
Kansas
Kentucky Adolpho Washington
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland Sharmba Mitchell
Massachusetts John Ruiz
Michigan Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Minnesota
Mississippi Kennedy McKinney
Missouri Michael Spinks
Montana Marvin Camel
Nebraska Terence Crawford
Nevada S.T Gordon
New Hampshire
New Jersey Marvin Hagler
New Mexico Johnny Tapia
New York Wilfred Benitez
North Carolina Sugar Ray Leonard
North Dakota
Ohio Aaron Pryor
Oklahoma Ross Puritty
Oregon
Pennsylvania Bernard Hopkins
Rhode Island Miguel Cotto
South Carolina Chad Dawson
South Dakota
Tennessee Thomas Hearns
Texas Terry Norris
Utah Danny Lopez
Vermont
Virginia Pernell Whitaker
Washington Rocky Lockridge
Washington DC Ronald Wright
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

[gilgamesh]

Holyfield is from Georgia

Holmes "The Easton Assassin" is from Pennsylvania.

Frankly I don't figure this is all that important of a thing to note anyway, unless you're FROM that state it's not that big a deal to you. Hell even if you are it's probably not that big a thing for most.

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I was using birth place.

[Ossyrules]

Louisiana - Muhammad ali

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Kentucky, right?
When I think about things like this, I always arbitrarily limit them to my own lifetime, which happens to mean the past 40 years. In that time, he beat Leon Spinks, then retired, and... I like to pretend he had the sense to just stay retired.

[Jip]

Good list.

New York - Mike Tyson

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Argument could be made for him, of course.

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once i made something similar for most of European countries if someone is interested:

Albania - Nuri Seferi
Austria - Edip Sekowitsch
Belarus - Siarhei Liakhovich
Belgium - Jean-Marc Renard
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alexander Petkovic
Bulgaria - Kubrat Pulev
Croatia - Stipe Drews
Czech Republic - Lukas Konecny
Denmark - Mikkel Kessler
Finland - Robert Helenius
France - Fabrice Tiozzo
Germany - Arthur Abraham
Hungary - Zsolt Erdei
Ireland - Andy Lee
Italy - Gianfranco Rosi
Latvia - Mairis Briedis
Montenegro - Dejan Zlaticanin
Netherlands - Regilio Tuur
Norway - Magne Havnaa
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Romania - Lucian Bute
Russia - Kostya Tszyu
Serbia - Slobodan Kacar
Slovenia - Jan Zaveck
Spain - Javier Castillejo
Sweden - Badou Jack
Switzerland - Mauro Martelli
Ukraine - Wladimir Klitschko
United Kingdom - Lennox Lewis

[DaveyMac]

Ross Puritty is a great guy but Oklahoma would have to be Sean O'Grady or Tommy Morrison.

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once i made something similar for most of European countries if someone is interested:

Albania - Nuri Seferi
Austria - Edip Sekowitsch
Belarus - Siarhei Liakhovich
Belgium - Jean-Marc Renard
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alexander Petkovic
Bulgaria - Kubrat Pulev
Croatia - Stipe Drews
Czech Republic - Lukas Konecny
Denmark - Mikkel Kessler
Finland - Robert Helenius
France - Fabrice Tiozzo
Germany - Arthur Abraham
Hungary - Zsolt Erdei
Ireland - Andy Lee
Italy - Gianfranco Rosi
Latvia - Mairis Briedis
Montenegro - Dejan Zlaticanin
Netherlands - Regilio Tuur
Norway - Magne Havnaa
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Romania - Lucian Bute
Russia - Kostya Tszyu
Serbia - Slobodan Kacar
Slovenia - Jan Zaveck
Spain - Javier Castillejo
Sweden - Badou Jack
Switzerland - Mauro Martelli
Ukraine - Wladimir Klitschko
United Kingdom - Lennox Lewis

Nice. A lot of those countries I'd not have been able to come up with anyone.

[JCS]

once i made something similar for most of European countries if someone is interested:

Albania - Nuri Seferi
Austria - Edip Sekowitsch
Belarus - Siarhei Liakhovich
Belgium - Jean-Marc Renard
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alexander Petkovic
Bulgaria - Kubrat Pulev
Croatia - Stipe Drews
Czech Republic - Lukas Konecny
Denmark - Mikkel Kessler
Finland - Robert Helenius
France - Fabrice Tiozzo
Germany - Arthur Abraham
Hungary - Zsolt Erdei
Ireland - Andy Lee
Italy - Gianfranco Rosi
Latvia - Mairis Briedis
Montenegro - Dejan Zlaticanin
Netherlands - Regilio Tuur
Norway - Magne Havnaa
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Romania - Lucian Bute
Russia - Kostya Tszyu
Serbia - Slobodan Kacar
Slovenia - Jan Zaveck
Spain - Javier Castillejo
Sweden - Badou Jack
Switzerland - Mauro Martelli
Ukraine - Wladimir Klitschko
United Kingdom - Lennox Lewis

Nice. A lot of those countries I'd not have been able to come up with anyone.

BoxRec search filters make it simple....

[Ossyrules]

once i made something similar for most of European countries if someone is interested:

Albania - Nuri Seferi
Austria - Edip Sekowitsch
Belarus - Siarhei Liakhovich
Belgium - Jean-Marc Renard
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alexander Petkovic
Bulgaria - Kubrat Pulev
Croatia - Stipe Drews
Czech Republic - Lukas Konecny
Denmark - Mikkel Kessler
Finland - Robert Helenius
France - Fabrice Tiozzo
Germany - Arthur Abraham
Hungary - Zsolt Erdei
Ireland - Andy Lee
Italy - Gianfranco Rosi
Latvia - Mairis Briedis
Montenegro - Dejan Zlaticanin
Netherlands - Regilio Tuur
Norway - Magne Havnaa
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Romania - Lucian Bute
Russia - Kostya Tszyu
Serbia - Slobodan Kacar
Slovenia - Jan Zaveck
Spain - Javier Castillejo
Sweden - Badou Jack
Switzerland - Mauro Martelli
Ukraine - Wladimir Klitschko
United Kingdom - Lennox Lewis

I thought Abraham was Armenian

[dagilechia]

once i made something similar for most of European countries if someone is interested:

Albania - Nuri Seferi
Austria - Edip Sekowitsch
Belarus - Siarhei Liakhovich
Belgium - Jean-Marc Renard
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Alexander Petkovic
Bulgaria - Kubrat Pulev
Croatia - Stipe Drews
Czech Republic - Lukas Konecny
Denmark - Mikkel Kessler
Finland - Robert Helenius
France - Fabrice Tiozzo
Germany - Arthur Abraham
Hungary - Zsolt Erdei
Ireland - Andy Lee
Italy - Gianfranco Rosi
Latvia - Mairis Briedis
Montenegro - Dejan Zlaticanin
Netherlands - Regilio Tuur
Norway - Magne Havnaa
Poland - Dariusz Michalczewski
Romania - Lucian Bute
Russia - Kostya Tszyu
Serbia - Slobodan Kacar
Slovenia - Jan Zaveck
Spain - Javier Castillejo
Sweden - Badou Jack
Switzerland - Mauro Martelli
Ukraine - Wladimir Klitschko
United Kingdom - Lennox Lewis

I thought Abraham was Armenian

he is but he fights as a German, a lot of Germany's best fighters are in fact foreigners like Sturm is Bosnian, Huck is Bosnian, Stieglitz is born in Russia and he is probably an ethnic Jew, Rocchigniani is of Italian origin, Arslan is Turkish and so on

if we have to add to that list an Armenian fighter that competed as an Armenian then i would say its Vic Darchinyan

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Argument could be made for him, of course.

Not over Benitez, but Benny Leonard is the guy.

Georgia would be Ray Robinson.
As much as I love Holyfield, Alabama is Joe Louis.
Maryland: joe Gans

Edit: my bad, missed the 40 years.