Who was/is the most exciting British Super Middleweight ever? Woodhall Eubank Froch Reid Benn Starie Calzaghe Watson Collins* Other - please state *Yes, I know Collins is Irish, but he often gets lumped in with this lot and mixed it with several of these guys, so.
Joe Calzaghe easily the most talented,fantastic hand speed loads of heart and desire thats why nobody beat him!
I remember watching Benn/Gent live in Florida on ABC Wide World of Sports and the announce team of Alex Wallau and Dan Dierdorf were going positively bonkers when calling it! I had a cheeky wank during the action.
looking back in British Boxing there is actually a few British S-HWs, and in the old school language they were called "Middleweights cum Light-Heavyweights". Having fought at a time when the British Title was damn near a world title, and the BEST of them fought not only L-HWs, but HWs too, and in many more busier fights scheduals, these are the ones much better than the modern day crop! and they are: Pat O'Keefe Len Johnson Len Harvey (though Harvey is more a L-HW cum HW) Jack Casey Jock McAvoy Bert Gilroy Randolph Turpin (though Turpin only tackled a couple of L-HWs, he never fought any HWs, where all the others did!) these are Britain's Best S-MWs...
Nigel Benn was the most exciting of that list IMO. Barkley, Mcllellan and eubank fights stand out in my mind. but its very hard to find a dull nigel benn fight. the man went to WAR everytime he got in the ring. im a massive watson fan aswell. great technical fighter, strong and skillfull and was very entertaining.
I have no idea who "Starie" is so I can't really judge him, but I guess he won't get close to Nigel anyway. Nigel Benn it is
from your list i would have to say david starie, especially for his rousing humdinger of a bombastic performance against calzaghe, truly memorable stuff.
