The World's Best Boxers: Ghana's Fighting Bukom Neighborhood - Joe Haldemann

Kenyans are known internationally as long distance runners. Canada has hockey, Australians swim, and New Zealand plays rugby. And while these countries have relatively small populations for their outsized sport successes, their people to sport notorieity ratio is dwarfed by that of the boxing fame enjoyed by Ghana's Bukom neighborhood in Accra. Joe Haldemann recently spent the summer there, living amongst Bukom's boxers trying to understand their boxing recipe. He explains that it can be understood historically: the once wealthy port neighborhood lost many of its jobs, leaving behind crowds of people competing for space and resources. Among idle young men, fights often happen. The British introduced the ring, and a long while later, Joshua Clottey is the welterweight world boxing champion, while two of his brothers fought professionally in other weight classes. Haldemann is making a documentary about Bukom's success in the "sweet science".