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Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:39 Portugal Honduras and Denmark all have very tiny populations in comparison to India yet you put them in the same sentence lol ! India has double the population of the whole of Europe combined!

Denmark have at least had Mikkel Kessler and the Bredahl brothers as world champions

Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:31 India has a population of 1.4 billion! And millions upon millions living around the world and descendants
Yet have never even had a single world champion ever or a single olympic gold or world championship gold medalist ever

Aint nobody can ever make an excuse for that one. They are simply effing hopelessly terrible at boxing no matter how hard they try. Exact same story as in football.

dagilechia wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:51

Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:31 India has a population of 1.4 billion! And millions upon millions living around the world and descendants
Yet have never even had a single world champion ever or a single olympic gold or world championship gold medalist ever

Aint nobody can ever make an excuse for that one. They are simply effing hopelessly terrible at boxing no matter how hard they try. Exact same story as in football.

well said... there are boxing nations, football nations etc, it's not just that some people are good and others are bad. for example China has like 130x population of Portugal so i guess that at least 10x people trains (and trains professionally) football in China than in Portugal but still Portugal is much better.

Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:32 Turkey also have never even had a single world champion ever. They have always been terrible at boxing.

chuck9788 wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:02

Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:32 Turkey also have never even had a single world champion ever. They have always been terrible at boxing.

Turkish born boxer Avni Yildirim (21-1, 12 KO's) is fighting Anthony Dirrell (32-1-1, 24 KO's) in Minneapolis MN on Feb 23rd ...... It's for the vacant WBC Super middleweight title.

Selcuk Aydin and Sinan Samil Sam were pretty decent. Atagun Yalcinkaya earned a silver medal in Athens 2004 and went (4-0, 4 KO's) as a pro.

dagilechia wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:27

oogiebe wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:24

chuck9788 wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:22

Yes, and Panama. Roberto Duran is a revered in that nation.

In Argentina it's huge. Always has been. I have a lot of relatives there and they are rabid fans.

Argentina i guess is the only boxing nation in South America

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:17

dagilechia wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:27

oogiebe wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:24
In Argentina it's huge. Always has been. I have a lot of relatives there and they are rabid fans.

Argentina i guess is the only boxing nation in South America

Venezuela must have some interest

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:19

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:17

dagilechia wrote: ↑06 Jan 2019, 15:27
Argentina i guess is the only boxing nation in South America

Venezuela must have some interest

Jorge Linares comes to mind.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:25

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:19

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:17

Venezuela must have some interest

Jorge Linares comes to mind.

http://boxrec.com/en/ratings?wnG%5Bcoun ... %5D=&r_go=

He isn’t even top 10. They’ve had quite a few tbh. But all below Welterweight.

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:27

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:25

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:19
Jorge Linares comes to mind.

http://boxrec.com/en/ratings?wnG%5Bcoun ... %5D=&r_go=

He isn’t even top 10. They’ve had quite a few tbh. But all below Welterweight.

I guess I should have ran that too. Not sure why I'm responding anyway.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:30

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:27

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:25

http://boxrec.com/en/ratings?wnG%5Bcoun ... %5D=&r_go=

He isn’t even top 10. They’ve had quite a few tbh. But all below Welterweight.

I guess I should have ran that too. Not sure why I'm responding anyway.

I’m not saying anything bad mate. Linares is a good name to mention. He get’s mainstream attention. But by the looks of it, there have been some other good names in the past eh?

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:37

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:30

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:27
I guess I should have ran that too. Not sure why I'm responding anyway.

I’m not saying anything bad mate. Linares is a good name to mention. He get’s mainstream attention. But by the looks of it, there have been some other good names in the past eh?

I was just saying I should have thought of it. Valero is no where in the first 50 which by the names on the list, I find weird. There were more names on the list than I figured, but we can't remember everything, although some posters think they do! Nicaragua would be interesting to see.

Oiky wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:47 I think boxing is biggest here in the UK, it's also big in Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, USA, but mma is seeing a lot more of a rise too

I know people who hated mma, had no respect for it and called it things like "two men f*cking each other in a cage" but they now follow mma a lot more than boxing. I think mma is shedding its undisciplined image regarding fights an the fighters and fights are getting more technically savvy an people are warning too it more and they also prefer the matchmaking and general attitude of the fighters

Both are still niche sports, but boxing is definitely a minority sport, even here in the uk where it's a big deal, it's still nowhere near as popular as it used to be, or should be

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:50

Oiky wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:47 I think boxing is biggest here in the UK, it's also big in Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, USA, but mma is seeing a lot more of a rise too

I know people who hated mma, had no respect for it and called it things like "two men f*cking each other in a cage" but they now follow mma a lot more than boxing. I think mma is shedding its undisciplined image regarding fights an the fighters and fights are getting more technically savvy an people are warning too it more and they also prefer the matchmaking and general attitude of the fighters

Both are still niche sports, but boxing is definitely a minority sport, even here in the uk where it's a big deal, it's still nowhere near as popular as it used to be, or should be

Agreed. When I first saw MMA (many, many years ago) it was sort of what you would expect had WWE been full contact. Now it's much more skill based and structured, in comparison. I can't say where its popularity is at this point, but I know it's a fast growing business.

oogiebe wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:50

Oiky wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:47 I think boxing is biggest here in the UK, it's also big in Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, USA, but mma is seeing a lot more of a rise too

I know people who hated mma, had no respect for it and called it things like "two men f*cking each other in a cage" but they now follow mma a lot more than boxing. I think mma is shedding its undisciplined image regarding fights an the fighters and fights are getting more technically savvy an people are warning too it more and they also prefer the matchmaking and general attitude of the fighters

Both are still niche sports, but boxing is definitely a minority sport, even here in the uk where it's a big deal, it's still nowhere near as popular as it used to be, or should be

Agreed. When I first saw MMA (many, many years ago) it was sort of what you would expect had WWE been full contact. Now it's much more skill based and structured, in comparison. I can't say where its popularity is at this point, but I know it's a fast growing business.

chuck9788 wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 14:02

Skalamanga wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 13:32 Turkey also have never even had a single world champion ever. They have always been terrible at boxing.

Turkish born boxer Avni Yildirim (21-1, 12 KO's) is fighting Anthony Dirrell (32-1-1, 24 KO's) in Minneapolis MN on Feb 23rd ...... It's for the vacant WBC Super middleweight title.

Selcuk Aydin and Sinan Samil Sam were pretty decent. Atagun Yalcinkaya earned a silver medal in Athens 2004 and went (4-0, 4 KO's) as a pro.