British Boxing Greats

Fitz was Irish but a US citizen?

 

Also sure Fitz moved down under at like 2-3yo.

 

Just to throw in another name I've yet to see mentioned.

Kirkland Laing.

Arguably the greatest single win of any British fighter ever.

 

Ted Kid Lewis
Jimmy Wilde
Bob Fitzsimmons
Benny Lynch
John Conteh
Ken Buchanan
Lloyd Honeyghan
Naseem Hamed
Lennox Lewis
Joe Calzaghe

 

Good list but I'd have Hatton in there, maybe for either AJ, Buchanan or McGuigan (I'm not too familiar with British fighters before the 90s). Also, Groves is a personal favourite of mine.

 

Love the fact that you have Jimmy Wilde at the top lof your list.

 

Lewis
Calzaghe
Benn
Froch
AJ
Fury
J.Taylor
Eubank
Brook
Hatton

 

1 - Len Harvey
2 - Jimmy Wilde
3 - Benny Lynch
4 - Jock McAvoy
5 - Ernie Roderick
6 - Ted Lewis
7 - LL
8 - Michael Watson
9 - Naz
10 - Henry Cooper

HM - Calzaghe, Driscol. Welsh, Benn, Eubank, Farr, Bugnar, Mills, Buchanan, C ockell, Brady, Gilroy, Keenan, Charnley, Turpin, Calderwood, Downes and a good few others.

 

Frampton or Barry Mcguigan instead of Joshua for me who should be on a B list with Bellew etc

 

Hatton’s win over Tszyu and the circumstances are like when Paul Scholes suddenly became a 10x better player after he’d retired. People miss out the bit he was past it and had boxed 2 rounds in 30 months previous.

 

1. Audley Harrison

 

Did boxing not exist until 1990?

 

Forgot about Frampton. Disagree about AJ due to amount quality of opponents he has beaten. I'd have Frampton instead of either Brook or Hatton.

 

None?

 

Seen plenty of the American greats from 50s from Patterson, to the 60s and 70s Ali, Frazier and Foreman and Hagler, Hearns and Lenoard.

I haven't seen enough if Honeyghan or Buchanan to include them (although there is enough footage of them available to make an assessment). I can only go on what I've seen.

That said I don't how people can include some very earlier guys such Ted Kid Lewis and Wilde due to limited footage of them available to make fair assessment.