Who do you have in your Top Ten Greatest British Fighters Of All Time list

If irony were made of strawberries we'd all be drinkin' a lotta smoothies right now.

 

:rofl:rofl

 

You made me out to be accusing you of bias against old-timers when I said no such thing, only to tell me in the exact same post not to assume.

 

Bob Fitzimmons
lenox lewis
Ted Kid Lewis
Jimmy Wilde
jen driscal
ken buchanan
joe calzaghe
Benny Lynch
randy turpin
john conteh
loyd hunnighan

I know i have listed 11 but if lennox dosnt qualify on acount of being a canadian raised jamacan take him out and bump the others up. I also wanted to put in freddie welsh..and jim watt.

 

Anyone know much about Joe Bowker?

 

haha, it sounds ludicrous dosnt it? but I think joe being undefeated 2 weight champion has a lot to do with it. he had a poor division but just kept winning, even though hopkins was old and however dubious the decision, bernard was on P4P lists at that time. This is so much harder than atg heavyweights.:hey

 

You find Jack Johnson as impressive on film (as in you think he'd fare well head to head) as many modern stylists? Or you rate him highly based on his achievements? I can't see the argument for either, personally.

Anyways, I'm wandering. I get what you're saying, but the assumption I made was a logical one. Most people, given their technical understanding of the boxing rules and regulations, would favor a guy like Turpin over Fitz under modern rules. The flaw with that reasoning is that you could favor a whole slew of modern fighters over much more accomplished and proven commodities like Fitzsimmons or really any fighter of that era.

You have to balance your ranking system, unless you simply rank pre-modern and post-modern fighters in different categories, which you don't.

 

Ah, I see. Keep studying.