Kazakhstan 8th in boxing by number of world champions
10:44, 26 December 2013
ASTANA. December 26. KAZINFORM - At the end of this year Kazakhstan ranks eighth in the number of world champions in all weight categories, reports vesti.kz. Just two Kazakh boxers have championship belts - WBA super champions are Gennady Golovkin and Beibut Shumenov. Great Britain has also two - Carl Froch and Ricky Burns.
The leaders in this list are the U.S. - 11 world champions, followed by Japan - eight, Mexico - seven, Russia - four athletes.
At the same time this year Mexico has suffered a noticeable loss, which had 13 world champions last year. U.S. compared to last year also missed two championship belts.
At the same time, on December 31, Japan and Mexico may be swapped if Dante Hardon ( 24-3, 20 KOs ) takes the the WBC junior lightweight division belt from Takashi Miura (26-2-2, 19 KOs).