Frank Warren said in his Sun article that Martin Rogan could be the best Irish heavyweight ever. Now at first when I heard that I thought your having a laugh but in retrospect there isn't much competition. Surely the 37 part-time cab driver/actor/boxer can't be the greatest ever?
Calm down son, All i've done is quoted what I read in the sun and asked peoples opinion.. If you have nothing worthwhile to contribute to the thread then i suggest you go join the rest of the morons on the general forum :good
there hasent been many good irish heavys over the years but there have been some great irish - americans if you can count them
mate together me and you shall end the oppresion of London rule:good btw i think McEwan's next fight wil be on the Hatton/pacman undercard,dunno who against .But he now has former heavyweight champ michael moore in hs corner aswell .
the fact you are happy to qoute what you read in the 'sun' i would ask yourself,did you contribute something worthwhile?
Outside of irish americans there isnt too many irish heavyweights that come to mind. Kevin McBride is the only one in recent years i can think off, the guy who beat a 76 yr old Tyson ,then got KO'd by Golota and others. Jack Doyle, now theres a peoples fighter! I think he turned up pissed for most of his last 10 fights.
Come on counting Irish-Americans is clutching at straws don't ya think, can us English count the tens of millions of Yanks with English ancestry ? there has to be a good boxer in there somewhere.
who is the irsh foghter form the early 1900's ,i think he came form a travelling background.But his hand has been kept or something like that and turned up in a pub about 5 years ago ...sorry for the vagueness
Soemone's gotta say it: where else in the UK matters other than London? Edinburgh? not after the banking collapse... hehehe... i go back to my uni at warwick and my hometown of Bournemouth, and I can't help thinking what provincial sh*tholes they are... and as for the north...
Peter Maher who held the HW title, Tom Sharkey who fought for the HW title and Paddy Ryan who was bare knuckle champ and lost his title to John L were all born in Ireland.