With Cinton Woods being from Sheffield, England and losing to Antonio Tarver ... another UK fighter has tasted defeat. It goes to show that crossing that pond isn't as easy as it seems. Now you can add Woods name along w/ Hatton and Hamed. With that being said ... is Calzaghe next?
Hatton + Hamed both had success in the states. You gotta lose sometimes as Hopkins has found out a few times.
exactly,no words of the eastern europeans coming over and hijacking all the U.S. heavyweight belts :happy
Much as I love the US arguing with an American using logic, sense , facts etc is pissing in the wind !
I was waiting for somebody to make a thread like this! how about Lennox Lewis vs Tyson or Holyfield How about Lloyd Honeyghan vs Donald Curry you have beat us we have beat u guys! hey we still do alright for a small nation!
that heavyweight geezer didn't do so bad, didn't lose a pro fight once in the states. what was his name? lennox something.....
Actually Fields is an up and comer and that was for a regional belt ... not a world championship. I think that when you compare the two - its two totally different levels. It was also only his 12th fight ...
Was there not a moment, when you had to go back seven years to find your third example, when you just paused and thought 'hang on, I'm going to look a bit of a tit here'?
True, but he was still being labelled the next massive thing, much like Chad D at that stage of his career. Many posters on here where claiming Fields would 'thump' Haye. Bottom line is, we have fighters that are superior to yours in given weights, you have fighters superior to ours. Why this must be made a nationality thing by you lot is anyones guess.
Those posters were also idiots, and the vast majority of Americans on the board disagreed with them, saying we hadn't seen enough of him. As for one-way traffic, Timothy Bradley Jr. is heading to the UK to fight Junior Witter, and he'll probably get smashed. Just too green for Witter at this point in his career. It's been a bad couple months for the Welshmen. I think Calzaghe can turn that trend around, but we'll see. As for pride, it seems to me that the Americans on here generally have less 'pride' for their fighters than the people of other nationalities. In some cases we're just as biased, but that mostly has to do with lack of exposure to many good foreign fighters, not because we only like American fighters. You don't see Americans cutting down foreigners who are on US TV a lot; you just won't see most of us rate a guy that highly if he hasn't had much US exposure.
