Great British Boxers

The minimum qualifying requirement to be on this list is to have been a world champion. Therefore, Conor Benn should not be on there. Boxers like Groves & Degale have more of a shout than him and they don't even belong on the list.

 

John Conteh

Maurice Hope

Lloyd Honeyghan

Herol Graham

Dennis Andries

Lennox Lewis

Kirkland Laing (at a push, he did beat Duran)

Hatton and Haye were briefly the best in the world at their weight , so they get added.

 

Will have to respectfully disagree here.

Naz was a British great for me. Fantastic to watch and was world class for a period. Bags of talent and frightening power

Sadly he had little to no discipline and Barrera did dominate him. Too disciplined and far too fundamentally sound. And was a brilliant fighter himself.

 

Naz most certainly goes down as a British great.

Let's be honest.... by the time he was fighting Barerra he'd left Ingle, was surrounded by yes man and his hands were blown to bits. He was already half way out of the game and wasn't living the life. His own fault.

Prior to that though, he was ridiculously entertaining to watch and the power he carried for his size was outrageous. The Kevin Kelly fight in New York was incredible.

 

Conor Benn Jr -how on earth is he a great? What's your definition of great?

No Jimmy Wide, Ted "Kid" Lewis, Ken Buchanan, Dennis Andries, John Conteh, Barry McGuigan? Quite a few names should be considered for a list like this and many, many more should be on it.

 

Considering Connor Benn jnr isn't even born yet I'm amazed he is in the chat at all. Maybe the clomofine actually worked?

 

No I am not from Yemen and what’s that got to do with anything, you sound like a bigot.

Agreed Barrera clearly beat him and did a number on him, it was a really good performance. However ref your Hamed saltiness, if you really knew boxing, you would know that at 122 and his early days 126 Morales never boxed off the back foot like Barrera did that night and always came forward throwing punches, so if anything Hamed would have had a better chance against El Terrible than he did against Barrera. After the Barrera fight though, I think Morales would have probably beaten him.

I disagree about a boxer only being seen as great by coming back from a loss because you could say that Tyson never recovered after Douglas (who did he beat after that apart from Ruddock and I’m not being facetious) and Larry Holmes didn’t either after Spinks so you are talking complete drivel as they both heavyweight greats.

 

His was the first name that came to mind and I'm glad I checked that he'd not been forgotten.

 

Excepting the Yemeni comment I agree with everything you put. Morales would have nailed him to the floor im sure. He SHOULD have gone for a return with Barrera instead of bellyaching about it but he knew what was going to happen before the fight. There was a bit of the bully about Naz.
But then again I think I agree with Sonny about him being a British boxing great. Can't think of a better featherweight.

 

Missed out Lloyd Honeyghan too. Either very young, trolling or DKSAB.

 

I wonder at their definition of great though. All subjective ultimately. Then again we all have something to learn about the sport.

 

Probably anyone who has ever won an alphabet belt is viewed as great. It also makes me smile when people talk about a boxer being the world champion when they are not even ranked inside the world rankings top 5.

 

Tony bellew comes to mind for me there I dont think he was in the top 5 when he won that vacant belt against makabu

 

Bellew or Makabu weren’t even in the worlds top 10 when they boxed, yet that twat Hearn was gobbing off about how he was the most dangerous boxer in the division and only 6 months later those 8 killers, including Usyk entered the Cruiserweight WBSS. Complete knobhead.

Other examples of non top 5 fives winning alphabet belts of the UK variety are Darren Barker against Daniel Geale, Liam Smith vs Jimmy Kelly, Steve Robinson v John Davidson, Stuey Hall against Paul Butler and Herbie Hide v Michael Bentt.

God I need to get out more…

 

good call re Laing