Who's the greatest boxer from your home town/ City/ County/ State

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  1. Destruction and Mayhem

    Destruction and Mayhem PHASE ----3

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    Growing up both Frank Bruno and Nigel Benn lived close to me. Not exactly GOAT contenders.

    What about you fellas? Anyone hail from Louisville Kentucky for example?
     
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    Willie Pep obviously
     
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    Carl Frampton would have beaten that guy, you fuckin nostalgic!
     
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    Slice N Dice Big stiff idiot

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    George Groves lives or lived in Isleworth so he's probably the best boxer from Hounslow.
     
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    Specifically from Waterbury, I can't think of any notable boxers ... Willie Pep fought here a few times though
     
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    From Finland, probably Gunnar Barlund, who at his best was the #2 contender of Joe Louis and defeated Buddy Baer in style.

    He learned his trade in Finland where there has never been any boxing coaches worth damn and he was about 6'2, 195 lbs, but since fighters back then knew how to actually fight and times were rough and no leap amateurs were accepted, he would have dominated the likes of Lewis and Joshua with ease
     
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    I imagine this guy would've been very "hard" as well.
     
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    Jesus of montreal WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    Stevenson easily
     
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    Rich ´Money´ Mustard DIE!

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    All Kinds of Great Fighters Had TIES to St. Louis, Missouri...

    Henry Armstrong, Archie Moore and Michael Spinks, Among Others...Not Sure How the STATE Fares Though...

    Jack Johnson SHITS on Anything Moving in Texas, but Narrowing it Down to Dallas, There's Only Curtis Cokes, Quincy Taylor and Errol Spence, Jr...








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    No question

    Absolutely brilliant fighter
     
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    Rich ´Money´ Mustard DIE!

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    Grew up about 10mins from where I live
     
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    I grew up in the same city as Walker Smith and Iron Mike. Beat that.
     
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    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

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    Spence will easily go down as the GOAT Dallas fighter.

    The Charlo's probably never surpass Big George as the GOAT Houston fighter.
     
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    Oh wait, I just went for Hounslow, if we are saying the whole of London then yeah there's way more.
     
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    Uh, yeah... 'cheerio' and whatnot
     
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    Word... Spence ain't better than Don Curry
     
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    Donnie Lalonde is the only one I can think of. Roddy Piper was raised here and had a "boxing" match against Mr. T at Wrestlemania if that counts lol.
     
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    Donald Curry’s from Ft. Worth, Which Also Produced Paulie Ayala, Stevie Cruz and Gene Hatcher...

    Curry’s Faaaaaaar and Away the Best of that Ilk...





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    I think he has intangibles that Curry didn't have.
     
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    Go get me a cwarffee yer schmuck!!

    It's gotta be Lennox if we're going with London.
     
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    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

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    This is gonna sound ignorant as Hell... but until just now I SWORE that Paulie Ayala was from San Antonio.... because I thought he was the younger brother of Tony Ayala Jr.

    Paulie ain't the rapist's little brother?
     
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    I think he's got a ways to go before he proves that
     
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    Ehhhh.... face it, Curry was talented as all fuck... but he was missing something internally that kept him from being a great. Call it a hunch, but Spence just seems to have that Leonard "kill or be killed" mentality that Curry was missing. No, don't have a stroke, cause I'm NOT comparing Spence to Leonard as a fighter.
     
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    No Relation that REED Knows of or that Paulie's Ever Spoken Of..."Ayala" is a VERY Common Last Name in the Mexican Community...

    Paulie's FINE Ass Wife (Lety) is a DISTANT Cousin of Marco Antonio Barrera, However...







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    Today, You've Gotta Give Curry the Nod...But If Spence Claims the Scalps of Thurman, Garcia and Porter, he'll have Surpassed Curry...






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