From Ring mag website: 10 greatest British fighters of all time

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by ishy, Dec 23, 2008.


  1. El Cepillo

    El Cepillo Baddest Man on the Planet Full Member

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    Hello everyone, I wrote an article for the main page about Calzaghe and Hamed's legacies, there is a topic in the general forum about it here: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113461

    I would really appreciate if you could comment/judge on the article, and I would be interested to hear all the opinions of the Brit Forum crowd as well, with regards to how Hamed and Calzaghe's legacies compare/don't compare etc.

    Cheers :good
     
  2. icemax

    icemax Indian Red Full Member

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    :yep Duran, waste of space

    In my mind either of Kens victories over Laguna (Puerto Rico & MSG) are way above anything that JC has ever dreamed of achieving
     
  3. hitman_hatton1

    hitman_hatton1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    honeyghan lost to vaca.

    which is comparable to hatton losing to someone like maussa tbh. :patsch

    and got completely owned by starling and breland.

    as good as those guys were, they weren't top notchers like mayweather.

    hatton's already had a better career. :deal
     
  4. hitman_hatton1

    hitman_hatton1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :patsch
     
  5. icemax

    icemax Indian Red Full Member

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    Maybe :think But Hatton would have had to have beaten Mayweather to reach the performance heights that Honeyghan did over Curry...in fact Honeyghans victory was much more of a shock than a Hatton win over Mayweather would have been.
     
  6. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    I think (so far) Honeys best win is a lot better than Hattons best win but the rest of their careers are VERY comparable.
     
  7. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    I can see it now - Hatton fanboys saying that Curry was severely weight drained....

    Honeyghan fanboys saying that Tszyu was old and shot....

    Apparently there isn't a great deal of love lost between the pair, for some reason. Then again, a typical northern male such as Hatton wouldn't take anyone who dresses like Lloyd does seriously.
     
  8. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    :lol:yep, thats probably how it will pan out but I think to go over to America and beat even a weight drained Curry is a far bigger achievement than beating an ageing Zoo fighting "at home" (which was still no mean feat).
     
  9. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    Not sure, was a bit before my time.....

    Having read up on the Curry thing though it is something I can decipher.

    Hatton will probably get out at the right time though with his few brain cells intact, Honeyghan went on too long.

    Surely that counts for something in the grand scheme of things?

    In other sports I just look at someone like David Seaman, who was the best keeper in the world (pretty much) for quite a while, but will be best remembered for costing us the QF in WC2002, and letting in a corner against some mumbo jumbo team in the 2004 qualifiers.

    Compare that to Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath etc - enough said.
     
  10. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Along with Hagler, Curry was the standout P4P fighter, people were seriously saying that he might have been better than SRL and that he should skip 154 and go straight to 160 and fight Hagler. Its hard to overstate how highly he was regarded at the time, for a couple of years he was awesome. He was known to be big at the weight but didn't seem to have any major weight making problems before Honeyghan.
     
  11. jc

    jc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He gets too much mileage out of losing to Duran. Calzaghe is the better boxer with the better record.
     
  12. widdy

    widdy lancs,where real men live Full Member

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    no metion of benn in there but naz,come on goldenhoya,you been a bit cheeky by putting delete next to my post,:nut,
    what did naz do to be there apart from beating past it fighters,**** me he beat robinson,prob the weakest feather champ ever,then beat tom boom boom jonston,who then went on to get beat off the great charlie shepard,:patsch,fought kelly,who he beat after both were near to getting twated by each other,then got twated off MAB,who was the only fighter who was more or less in his prime:happy
    who has benn beat,nobodys eh:good
     
  13. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    Your grammar is exceptional.
     
  14. ron u.k.

    ron u.k. Boxing Addict banned

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    i don't think the lists outrageous,of course it can be picked apart but really it's pretty reasonable.i'd always find a place for conteh in any british top ten,and also there's a criminally forgotten bull of a lightweight who preceded buchanan called dave charnley.
     
  15. widdy

    widdy lancs,where real men live Full Member

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    soory beeston,i 4got i was writeing a peice for my A levals,4give me teach,i wont mek same mistake again,and again and again