From Ring mag website: 10 greatest British fighters of all time

Hello everyone, I wrote an article for the main page about Calzaghe and Hamed's legacies, there is a topic in the general forum about it here: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113461

I would really appreciate if you could comment/judge on the article, and I would be interested to hear all the opinions of the Brit Forum crowd as well, with regards to how Hamed and Calzaghe's legacies compare/don't compare etc.

Cheers :good

 

:yep Duran, waste of space

In my mind either of Kens victories over Laguna (Puerto Rico & MSG) are way above anything that JC has ever dreamed of achieving

 

honeyghan lost to vaca.

which is comparable to hatton losing to someone like maussa tbh. atsch

and got completely owned by starling and breland.

as good as those guys were, they weren't top notchers like mayweather.

hatton's already had a better career. :deal

 

atsch

 

Maybe :think But Hatton would have had to have beaten Mayweather to reach the performance heights that Honeyghan did over Curry...in fact Honeyghans victory was much more of a shock than a Hatton win over Mayweather would have been.

 

I think (so far) Honeys best win is a lot better than Hattons best win but the rest of their careers are VERY comparable.

 

I can see it now - Hatton fanboys saying that Curry was severely weight drained....

Honeyghan fanboys saying that Tszyu was old and shot....

Apparently there isn't a great deal of love lost between the pair, for some reason. Then again, a typical northern male such as Hatton wouldn't take anyone who dresses like Lloyd does seriously.

 

yep, thats probably how it will pan out but I think to go over to America and beat even a weight drained Curry is a far bigger achievement than beating an ageing Zoo fighting "at home" (which was still no mean feat).

 

Not sure, was a bit before my time.....

Having read up on the Curry thing though it is something I can decipher.

Hatton will probably get out at the right time though with his few brain cells intact, Honeyghan went on too long.

Surely that counts for something in the grand scheme of things?

In other sports I just look at someone like David Seaman, who was the best keeper in the world (pretty much) for quite a while, but will be best remembered for costing us the QF in WC2002, and letting in a corner against some mumbo jumbo team in the 2004 qualifiers.

Compare that to Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath etc - enough said.

 

Along with Hagler, Curry was the standout P4P fighter, people were seriously saying that he might have been better than SRL and that he should skip 154 and go straight to 160 and fight Hagler. Its hard to overstate how highly he was regarded at the time, for a couple of years he was awesome. He was known to be big at the weight but didn't seem to have any major weight making problems before Honeyghan.

 

He gets too much mileage out of losing to Duran. Calzaghe is the better boxer with the better record.

 

no metion of benn in there but naz,come on goldenhoya,you been a bit cheeky by putting delete next to my post,:nut,
what did naz do to be there apart from beating past it fighters,**** me he beat robinson,prob the weakest feather champ ever,then beat tom boom boom jonston,who then went on to get beat off the great charlie shepard,atsch,fought kelly,who he beat after both were near to getting twated by each other,then got twated off MAB,who was the only fighter who was more or less in his prime:happy
who has benn beat,nobodys eh:good

 

Your grammar is exceptional.

 

i don't think the lists outrageous,of course it can be picked apart but really it's pretty reasonable.i'd always find a place for conteh in any british top ten,and also there's a criminally forgotten bull of a lightweight who preceded buchanan called dave charnley.

 

soory beeston,i 4got i was writeing a peice for my A levals,4give me teach,i wont mek same mistake again,and again and again