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Let’s Take a Look at the Best from Each Country!

By Ken Hissner - 11/21/2024 - Comments

Starting with the United States of America, we have whom many call the best pound-for-pound boxer of all time in welterweight and middleweight champion ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson. His overall record was 174-19-6 with 99 stoppages. Robinson retired after losing to light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim, with a record of 132-3-2, before returning.

World featherweight, welterweight, and lightweight champion holding all three titles at the same time, Henry ‘Homicide Hank’ Armstrong, 149-21-10, with 99 stoppages. One of his losses after losing his titles was to Robinson. World middleweight champion Harry ‘Pittsburgh Windmill’ Greb, 262-17-18, or 108-9-3, with 49 stoppages.

Olympic Gold Medalist, 3-time World heavyweight champion Muhammad ‘The Greatest’ Ali, 56-5, with 37 stoppages. Heavyweight champion Joe ‘The Brown Bomber’ Louis, 66-3, with 52 stoppages. He had 25 title defenses.

Canada’s Heavyweight champion Tommy ‘The Little Giant of Hanover’ Burns, 47-4-8 with 35 stoppages at 5:07, was one of the smallest of champions in that division.

Mexico’s 3 division world champion Julio ‘J.C.’ Chavez, 107-6-2, with 85 stoppages had 29 title defenses. WBC Featherweight champion Salvador ‘Chava’ Sanchez, 44-1-1, with 32 stoppages. He was killed at the age of 23 in a car accident. 2 division world champion Ricardo ‘Finita’ Lopez, 51-0-1, with 38 stoppages. He had 24 title defenses.

Panama’s 4 division world champion Roberto ‘Hands of Stone’ Duran, 103-16, with 70 stoppages.

Nicaragua’s 3-division world champion Alexis ‘Thin Man’ Arguello, 77-8 with 62 stoppages.

Argentina’s world middleweight champion Carlos ‘Escopeta’ Monzon, 88-3-9, with 59 stoppages. The 2 time Olympian and 2 division world champion Omar ‘El Huracan’ Narvaez, 49-4-2, with 25 stoppages, had 27 title defenses.

Colombia’s Light Welterweight champion Antonio ‘Kid Pambele’ Cervantes, 67-12-1, with 37 stoppages.

Venezuela’s Light Welter champion Carlos ‘Morocho’ Hernandez, 60-12-4, with 44 stoppages.

Brazil’s 2 division world champion Eder Jofre, 72-2-4, with 50 stoppages.

Puerto Rico’s 3-division world champion Wilfred ‘Bazooka’ Gomez, 44-3-1, with 42 stoppages. 3-division world champion Felix ‘Tito’ Trinidad, 42-3, with 35 stoppages.

Cuba’s Junior Lightweight champion, Kid Chocolate, 136-10-6, with 51 stoppages. Welterweight champion Louis ‘El Feo’ Rodriguez, 107-13, with 49 stoppages.

Philippines 6 division world champion Manny ‘Pac Man’ Pacquiao, 62-8-2, with 39 stoppages.

Japan’s 2 division world champion Fighting Harada, 55-7, with 22 stoppages. 4 division world champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue, 28-0, with 25 stoppages.

Thailand’s world flyweight champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, 91-5-2, with 47 knockouts.

Indonesia’s world featherweight champion Chris ‘The Dragon’ John, 48-1-3, with 22 stoppages.

South Korea’s world light flyweight champion Myung Woo Yuh, 38-1, with 14 stoppages.

Virgin Islands 2-division world champion Julian ‘The Hawk’ Jackson, 55-6, with 49 stoppages.

Jamaica’s 3-division world champion Michael ‘Bodysnatcher’ McCallum, 49-5-1, with 36 stoppages.

Ghana’s 2-division world champion Azumah ‘The Professor’ Nelson, 38-6-2, with 27 stoppages.

Nigeria’s middleweight champion Dick Tiger, 60-19-3, with 27 stoppages.

Uganda’s world light middleweight champion John ‘The Beast’ Mugabi, 42-7-1, with 39 stoppages.

Australia’s world bantamweight champion Lionel Rose, 42-11, with 12 stoppages. World featherweight champion Johnny Famechon, 56-5-6, with 20 stoppages. 3 divisional champion Jeff ‘Marrickville Mauler’ Fenech, 29-3-1, with 21 stoppages.

Wales super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, 46-0, with 32 stoppages. World flyweight champion Jimmy ‘The Mighty Atom’ Wilde, 131-3-1, with 98 stoppages.

Scotland’s World lightweight champion Ken Buchanan, 61-8, with 27 stoppages.

France’s world bantamweight champion Panama Al Brown, 128-19-12, with 59 stoppages. World middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan, 111-4, with 65 stoppages.

Spain’s world lightweight champion Pedro Carrasco, 105-3-2, with 67 stoppages. World featherweight champion Jose ‘Pocket Cassius Clay’ Legra, 129-11-4, with 49 stoppages.

Hungary’s 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist European middleweight champion Laszlo Papp, 27-0-2, with 15 stoppages.

Italy’s Olympic Gold Medalist, world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti, 82-7-1, with 35 stoppages.

Poland’s 2 division world champion Darius ‘Tiger’ Michalczewski, 48-2, with 38 stoppages.

Ukraine’s Olympic Gold Medalist, world heavyweight champion Wladimir ‘Dr. Steelhammer’ Klitschko, 64-5, with 53 stoppages. World heavyweight champion Vitali ‘Dr. Ironfist Klitschko, 45-2, with 41 stoppages. Olympic Gold Medalist, 2 division world champion Oleksandr Usyk, 22-0, with 14 stoppages. 2-time Olympic Gold Medalist, 3 division world champion Vasyl ‘Loma’ Lomachenko, 18-3, with 12 stoppages.

Germany’s world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, 56-10-4, with 39 stoppages. Super middle champion Sven ‘Phantom’ Ottke, 34-0, with 6 stoppages. Euro middleweight champion Gustav ‘Bubi’ Scholz, 88-2-6, with 46 stoppages.

Russia’s world heavyweight champion Nikolai ‘The Russian Giant’ Valuev, 50-2, with 34 stoppages.

Kazakhstan’s Olympian, world middleweight champion Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin, 42-2-1, with 37 stoppages.

Denmark’s world super middleweight champion Mikkel ‘The Viking Warrior’ Kessler, 46-3, with 35 stoppages.

Give me your opinion on who I left out.

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Ken Hissner

Ken Hissner is a senior boxing journalist at Boxing News 24 with more than 20 years of experience covering the sport. Known for his ringside reporting, detailed results, and historical perspective, he delivers authoritative coverage of boxing across eras.