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Bwgcolman 01-14-2013 09:38 PM
The Australian Fab 4
 
If you had to pick the 4 boxers that defined Australian boxing throughout it's history who would you choose. The boxers wouldn't necessarily have to have held world titles but represented their era in Australian boxing.

So many great champions to choose from and no doubt my list will change but I would have
1. Les Darcy (was a national hero).
2. Jimmy Carruthers (our first universally recognised boxing World Champion).
3. Lionel Rose
4. Jeff Fenech

Any of these fighters could be replaced by the likes of Young Griffo, Vic Patrick, Tommy Burns, Ron Richards, Dave Sands etc.

swingin 01-14-2013 11:11 PM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
i agree with the above. remember jeff harding...just a gutsy battler who did fine, that fell on hard times. happened so often to our greats....

ALTogethernow 01-15-2013 12:06 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Jeff fenech does not deserve to be anywhere near that list, agree on the rest

Bollox 01-15-2013 12:21 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Why not?

StiffJab 01-15-2013 01:12 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ALTogethernow (Post 14574844)
Jeff fenech does not deserve to be anywhere near that list, agree on the rest
Replace him with Garth wood :good

ALTogethernow 01-15-2013 02:57 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
why not?
Won a largely joke belt (when he won the ibf was considered similarly to the wbf that shannan taylor won last year).
Got cleaned up by some very low level fighters
and is an absolute grub of human being, thief, mug and lowlife!

Stiffjab is attempting to troll, I will not feed.

darkhorse 01-15-2013 03:03 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ALTogethernow (Post 14574844)
Jeff fenech does not deserve to be anywhere near that list, agree on the rest
..sorry..but your off your head..:blood

darkhorse 01-15-2013 03:05 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bwgcolman (Post 14574326)
If you had to pick the 4 boxers that defined Australian boxing throughout it's history who would you choose. The boxers wouldn't necessarily have to have held world titles but represented their era in Australian boxing.

So many great champions to choose from and no doubt my list will change but I would have
1. Les Darcy (was a national hero).
2. Jimmy Carruthers (our first universally recognised boxing World Champion).
3. Lionel Rose
4. Jeff Fenech

Any of these fighters could be replaced by the likes of Young Griffo, Vic Patrick, Tommy Burns, Ron Richards, Dave Sands etc.
..apart from trying to squeak Kostya Tsyzu in there somewhere...it's hard to dissagree with that list..:thumbsup

Crusher 01-15-2013 04:32 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by darkhorse (Post 14575304)
..apart from trying to squeak Kostya Tsyzu in there somewhere...it's hard to dissagree with that list..:thumbsup
Are you trying to claim tsyzu as ours?

rusty nails 01-15-2013 05:20 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ALTogethernow (Post 14574844)
Jeff fenech does not deserve to be anywhere near that list, agree on the rest
thats some low quality trolling... :bart

darkhorse 01-15-2013 09:50 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Crusher (Post 14575575)
Are you trying to claim tsyzu as ours?
..fuck yeah..:good

Bugger 01-15-2013 11:09 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
You could go a few different routes esp if in a hypothetical scenario the gus were facing off against each other...

Middleweights - Sands, Darcy, Richards and Tony Mundine

Lightweights - Patrick, Micheals, Katsidis and Thompson

Bantam/Feather - Rose, Carruthers, Griffo, Fammo

JOSEY WALES 01-15-2013 11:47 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
When I used to think of Aussie fighters The likes of Harding , Fenech , Fammo used to soring to mind then you lads kindly educated me on guys like Rose , Darcy , Sands etc names I had obviously heard of but never really knew much about. From what I knew and have since learnt I would have to go with , Rose , Fammo , Harding and Fenech .:good

Crusher 01-15-2013 03:14 PM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by darkhorse (Post 14576916)
..fuck yeah..:good
Fair enough I'm not a Fenech fan. But I put him ahead of tsyzu because he won titles at a couple different weights and beat some future HOF fighters.

darkhorse 01-16-2013 02:06 AM
Re: The Australian Fab 4
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Crusher (Post 14578754)
Fair enough I'm not a Fenech fan. But I put him ahead of tsyzu because he won titles at a couple different weights and beat some future HOF fighters.
..yeah mate..I'll always put Fenech slightly above Kostya for the reasons you've mentioned too..totally agree..and I probably couldn't put Kostya above guys like Jimmy Carruthers either..but there's really just a struck match between all them guys..
..then we have Johnny Famechon and to a lesser extent Hitman Harding..
..a good topic anyway..:good


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