I am British, and YES all our fighters are overhyped.

that settles it, you have never watched a uk am boxing match, in the uk straight punches are the bread and butter of am boxing, hooks and body shots rarely get scored.

 

I'm sorry mate but you wouldn't ****ing say that if you knew where he grew up. East, east, east London where he has put loads of money into colleges and projects for the young. Just cos he lost the accent doesn't mean he ain't East London. My family have lost their accents and haven't been back there for years but its still where they're from.

Oh East London
Is wonderful
Oh East London is wonderful
We've got tits, fanny and West Ham

 

Just on another note on us Brits saying that Lacy was rated. This is what we were told the Yanks were saying about him and that he'd be too young and too strong for Calzaghe.

To be fair though Marvin Hagler was saying that Calzaghe was too good for him. Hagler also said that He was one of the very best p4p in the world.

All this is bollocks though, ok you support your local national fighter, I WANTED Hatton to win but I didn't give him much of a chance.

Part of the problem is over here is that when I was growing up you got to see Lloyd Honeghan, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank et al on normal TV. It just disappeared when it went satellite so unless someone is hyped up the general public don't see them or have never heard of them.

One final thing, whatever the merits of Lacy as an opponent, that was one of the finest displays of boxing I've ever seen by a British boxer. Not the most exciting cos it was so one-sided but a real f*cking boxing lesson.

Hopefully, I'll meet some of you American fight fans on 19 April when I go to Vegas for my first time

 

:bowdown :bowdown :bowdown

You guys are great fans, but sometimes I feel you believe yourselves when you bring out threads like "UK is the best p4p" or whatever. Thanks to this thread, I understand that most realise the truth...

 

Audley is an Olympic gold medallist and he is ****, if winning more gold medals means we have more Audleys then **** it.

 

scarletruntings is from east london and still lives in east london , so knows it very well.

not sure i agree with your last point, IMO you are where you live , i used to be an east londoner, but am now an essex man.

technically lewis is english,was born here and qualifies to represent the uk so i have no trouble following him , but listening to lewis, you can hardly call him an eastender.

 

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He has a floaty accent, if you relocate when you're young you'll get that.