Froch names his current UK top 5

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  1. Goran_

    Goran_ Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    "Tyson Fury’s got to be number one. He’s the heavyweight champion, he’s brilliant and he fights like a middleweight.”

    “Josh Taylor, he’s got to be number two. Great fighter and unbelievable talent.”

    “I’ve got to stick Leigh Wood at number three. My man from Nottingham. But it could be a joint third alongside Sunny Edwards and Joe Cordina.”

    “Then I’d have Chris Billam-Smith, just had that fantastic win against Okolie and is a newly crowned world champion.”

    Agree or disagree? Don't think he can count tho :lol:
     
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  2. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No black fighters on that list?

    Froch's EDL roots on show again.

    BTW....I don't even disagree with the list. I just thought he would be more PC about it.
     
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  3. James Hudson

    James Hudson Active Member Full Member

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    Who would u put in the top 5 who is black?
     
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  4. DoubleG95Fanatic

    DoubleG95Fanatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not much there to argue...then again I couldv'e guessed all those names in that order before reading the OP.

    I just knew he'd have Wood at #3 or #4
     
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  5. DoubleG95Fanatic

    DoubleG95Fanatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Actually I'd personally have Chantelle Cameron in there at #4 over Wood/Cordina.
     
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  6. MorvidusStyle

    MorvidusStyle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wow, a radical statement to make in Merry England. British government might need to step in and send some diversity re-education officers to the Froch property before he starts claiming Anglo-saxons built the country or something.
     
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  7. TheShellofKell

    TheShellofKell Nakatani Future P4P #1 Full Member

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    J. Cat
    Cordina
    Edwards
    Taylor
    C.Smith
     
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  8. The Real Lance

    The Real Lance Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's silly to suggest
     
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  9. senpai

    senpai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If that's the top 5 from UK, than boxing is dead for brits
     
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  10. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    The AJ omission is the most glaring and he deserves to be on there due to achievements and overall body of work but the reason for his omission would be due to Froch not really caring for him after AJ fired their mutual trainer and Froch's buddy Robert McCracken. Nothing wrong with it really other than that.

    Okolie just lost to CBS

    CEJ is coming off a KO loss to Liam Smith

    Joe Joyce just got stopped by Big Bang Zhang

    Belly, Taylor, Edwards, Wood (who, as his says, is his fellow Nottingham boy), Cordina, and CBS are all current world champions. Conor Benn doesn't deserve to be ranked above any of them.

    Carl Froch Names Fellow Brit As “Favourite Fighter Of All Time”

    However, despite the fact he campaigned at 12 stone, ‘The Cobra’ explained on his youtube channel, Froch on Fighting, that his favourite boxer of all time is a man who plied his trade at a much lower weight – Prince Naseem Hamed.

    “My favourite fighter of all time, the guy that’s given me the most entertainment, the guy that inspired me to get back into boxing.

    I got back into boxing at 19 years old for one reason, and one reason only. Because I used to love watching Prince Naseem Salem Ali Hamed – I’m a massive fan, I’ve read his book so I know his full name.”

    “What a fighter, what an entertainer. My favourite fighter has to be ‘Naz.’ What a legend.”

    A protege of the late Brendan Ingle, Hamed was known for his unconventional boxing antics and spectacular ring entrances which included entering the ring on a flying carpet, as well as re-enacting the video of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.


    However, Hamed was no gimmick. He was a southpaw with devastating punch power, and held multiple word titles at featherweight during the mid to late 1990s, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015.
     
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  11. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    How so?

    They all practically are world champions
     
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  12. senpai

    senpai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Levels my friend, levels.

    This guy also was the champion. and ?

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  13. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    And he lost to the better fighter

    That video really answers nothing

    If a top 5 was full of journeymen and average fighters, sure but it's not

    There's some elite talent he has listed
     
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  14. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Not really....its a PC world and Carl should be aware of any type of backlash that could be coming his way.

    BTW I never said I disagreed with his list
     
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  15. Mickea4

    Mickea4 Active Member Full Member

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    Please .. please... Do not joke about this stuff... We're only one step behind Canada on these kind of things hahaha you nailed that
     
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