Britain's Second Greatest Heavyweight

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Who is Britain's Second Greatest Heavyweight?

  1. Don ****ell

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  2. Tommy Farr

    2.3%
  3. David Haye

    2.3%
  4. Anthony Joshua

    13.6%
  5. Bob Fitzsimmons

    22.7%
  6. Tyson Fury

    25.0%
  7. Frank Bruno

    9.1%
  8. Henry Cooper

    9.1%
  9. Joe Bugner

    13.6%
  10. Other...

    2.3%
  1. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    I refuse to fall for Fergy's blatant attempt to "measuring with two cups of tea". Who does that?!

    Just because he thought of himself as British, he was listed as British in all of boxing publications and he held the British Commonwealth belt doesn't make it so. As they say, "half a yak does no a village make ....."
     
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  2. Legend X

    Legend X Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    In my opinion, Fitzsimmons wasn't a British boxer. But everyone has their own criteria.
     
  3. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    In your mind does it hurt your argument that he hadn't moved to Australia yet when he fought for the belt?

    How about the BBBOFC title same thing?
     
  4. GoldenHulk

    GoldenHulk Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I can't really say who is the second best British heavyweight. To me they're all fairly unremarkable, and are a VERY distant second compared to Lennox Lewis.
     
  5. Nighttrain

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    Okay, I see what you mean. The fact he didnt actually go to Australia until 15 years later he fought for the British Boxing Board of Control title as an Australian because of the Manuel Charr exception and well you gotta admit he did end up living there later! People seem to give too much weight to the first 19 he claimed to be British when he was a contender challenging alleged Americans Ali an Frazier.
     
  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member

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    Fitzsimmons was born in Cornerwall therefore he is by desperation a Corner .Buger was a Hunger but became an Enger and after later a Down Under . Errol De Havalot was a Transvetite citizen from Transvetania. Is that summary right?
     
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  7. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :D Cut it out Mac!
     
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  8. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    Yes. Though you have ignored Mercury Tansanian of Tasmania who could be a devil I for one will accuse you of measuring with two cups of tea.
     
  9. mcvey

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    It is true I have been caughted by you, my arpeggios.
     
  10. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Well sorry but I'm sticking to my measuring with" two cups of tea "and I'm having it both ways!!.. So there :yaay:yaay
     
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  11. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Sorry mcvey.. But can you repeat that??
     
  12. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member

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    I just lapsing into the vernacular.
     
  13. Fergy

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    Ahhh I thought as much.. Terrible affliction.
     
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  14. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    Nòooooo! Boooted?! Why? Say it ain't so!
     
  15. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    She certainly is at the ripe old age of 102!
    Only last weekend she was appointed a Dame of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen!
     
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