Boxers from your birthplace/hometown

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  1. Slice N Dice

    Slice N Dice Big stiff idiot

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    Name some boxers from the place you were born, or where you consider "home". If you're from a major city youll have to name the district/borough/region rather than the entire city. I'll start:

    Hammersmith:

    Frank Bruno
    Joe Calzaghe (born here, then moved to Wales)
    James DeGale
    George Groves (unfortunately)
     
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    whiskey Czarcasm

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    Donny Lalonde is the only one i know of.
     
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    Glasgow

    Ricky Burns
    Scott Harrison
    Benny Lynch
    Jim Watt
    were wold champs

    Craig Docherty & Willie Limmond were recent Commonwealth & European champs.....cant think of any more of the top of my head.
     
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  4. Slice N Dice

    Slice N Dice Big stiff idiot

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    Are they all from your section of Glasgow, Hut? Or stretched from across the city?
     
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    Hut*Hut The Mackintosh of temazepam

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    Nah, all over. Benny Lynch was from just over the river in govan. The only famous people I know of from Partick are Billy Connolly and the underappreciated Tosh McKinnly. :bears:
     
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    puerto rock WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    Miguel Cotto and Juanma Lopez.

    Both from my hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico.
     
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    Are you guys all in the same gang?
     
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    George Chuvalo and I are both from the rugged streets of Toronto.
     
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    Who was born in the South bronx?
     
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    what about Dale Hawerchuk?
     
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    Iran Barkley
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    Jake LaMotta
     
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    whiskey Czarcasm

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    If your parents stayed in NYC where would you likely have been born and raised?
     
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    I think they were on Marion Ave. by then, so maybe a dozen blocks from Botanical Gardens

    but as a slow, extremely fair-skinned Celt I would have been 0-25 with 25 first-round losses due to an limitless variety of cuts and would thus be in no position to warrant any type of mention in this thread
     
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    Jimmy The Greatest of Are Times

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    Same as you slice. From around the west london area as you mentioned.
     
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    ArturoGatti WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    I don't know any from Hamilton.
     
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    What about Srgetovriclaopz?
     
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