British World champs

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The domestic sport has strength in depth not seen this side of World War II.

    Some really resent this, and think 'their era' was stronger, but it wasn't...
     
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    Pro Punter Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    How many UK all time greats on the current list?
     
  3. TBooze

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    None, you literally cannot have an 'all time' great. If we did, we would know about them before they were born!

    But there is a kind of point to your observation. The one thing this era does lack is a 'mainstream' cross over star, something that other eras have had.
     
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    If you picked 10 random people on the street, I reckon most would struggle to recognise more than 2 of the names on the list.

    Some of them still have time to become household names.
     
  5. Silent_Service

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    True .... But if you look at past world champions , with the exception of Lewis, Bruno , hatton , benn, Eubank & naz most people would not know who you was on about neither...

    Because fact is that unless you are a big "charachter in some way or other, people don't know you.. Take Ricky Burns for example, fine champion at the time - not many in the street knew him (south of the border that is) because he has no major public face, good or bad..!