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

why dont you explain to me why you think the uk has a terrible amateur program?

 

You got Amir Khan ... who won a silver medal ... I know about the olympics and the world championship ... I follow amateurs as well as pro.

You don't know me ... how are you going to tell me I don't know what i'm talking about?

If I don't call me out and explain ... bee-otch ...

I said what I believed ... Amir Khan is a rare prodigy from UK ... David Haye did some **** in the world championships winning a silver ...

 

And their boxers don't transition to be good pros ... a US national championship can grant you atleast at times a championship run in the pros.

UK isn't up there with the former Solviet Union, Cubans, and the United States ...

 

you still have not explained to me why you think the UK has a terrible amateur program, instead you went into your usual white boy internet gangsta 'e-thuggin' calling me 'beotch'.

 

PBF - 96' bronze, got robbed out of a chance for the gold
Jermain Taylor - 00' bronze
Rocky Juarez - 00' silver
DLH - 92' Gold
David Reid - 96' Gold
Andre Ward- 04' Gold
Andre Dirrell - 04' bronze
Rau'Shee Warren - 2-time olympian 04, 08
Tarver -96' bronze
Jones - 88' silver, got robbed out of a gold


the list keeps going for the US and I know the UK doesn't have the quality of programs than the US. Its like the NBA over in the US ... the fighters are good enough to peak after 24-48 mo. and turn pro.

 

but you STILL have not yet explained to me why you think the UK has terrible amateur program, i'll wait.........

 

because they do ... in the UK the boxers don't transitiion well ... they're brawlers playing boxer and don't know the art of the sweet science. None of them do much in the amateurs ... and like I said they don't transition well.

When was the last time that UK has had a gold medalist?

When was the last time a fighter from the UK was considered a good boxer?

How many times over and over have fighters fromt the UK have been exposed to be nothing more than unorthodox, overrated, nobody's.

 

We British actually have a verg good amateur programme, but ultimately the transition from am to pro doesn't go well for a high percentage of our boxers. We don't really have too many great trainers.

 

When was the last solid team from the UK and you expected them to do well?

I watch boxing in the olympics and UK is usually a sad case ...

 

Joe Calzaghe is a good boxer, to put it mildly

Clinton Woods is a classically orthodox fighter - a good boxer

David Haye was a good amateur - he has very good boxing skills

They aren't all of the unorthodox Naz/Witter variety. This is a much smaller nation, with little interest in boxing. Get some perspective

 

and yet you still ave not explained to me why you think the uk have s terrible amateur program.

you just gave me a bunch of your opinions about transitioning from am to pro.

 

Isn't that what I wrote?

I don't get why i'm taking so much heat from relentless for saying that.

you agree ... you are british ... whats the big deal ... its no different from south africa ... you have good fighters and potential but terrible trainers and training methods.

I've watched Irish amateur boxing on youtube ... all I see is winging shots ... not straight punches ... no strategy ... just all out buckin.

 

They don't do well in international events ... you have a couple of guys here and there that do something but as far as a team ... they don't do well.

Trainers aren't teaching these guys proper stance ... technique ... and emphasis on straight punching.

 

so you base your whole opinion on a video clip you saw on youtube?

since you like to follow the ams, do you even know who the p4p best am in the uk is?

 

I never read your post.