Modern British World Champions who would have never wan a world title in yesteryear

i think we'll all agree on gavin rees.

 

atschatschatschatsch you mean the one and only WBF champion AUDLEY HARRISON not lennox lewis

 

Johnny Nelson

 

Lennox is like..........

One of the top five heavies of all time, easily.

So how would he not win the world title?

On a serious note, boxing would be much better off with a single governing body, with the respective regional commissions beneath it :deal

 

What a stupid thread.

Its basically just a "what fighter do you want to disrespect" thread.

How can anyone here say which fighter wouldnt have won a world title in yesteryear?

 

"Yesteryear"? Keeping it nice and specific then?

Pretty much all of our elite fighters could dominate during certain periods of time. Haye, Hatton, Calzaghe would have been the world champion in their division at one point or another. Haye a few years before he was king, Calzaghe before and after Jones, and Hatton before Tszyu. However, stick Hatton in there with JCC or Pryor and he gets battered. Calzaghe would be schooled by Jones and Holyfield would eat Haye alive.

We'd do well in the reletively weak eras and have a harder time when a truly great fighter was around.

I agree with Dunky. "Yesteryear" is so loosely defined that it's a pointless thread. It has to be one specific era, otherwise people are just going to put their least favourites against an ATG and their favourites in a weak division.

If you wanted to match the fighters up against different divisions from throughout the years, this would be a great thread. But as it is, people are going to take advantage of how unspecific "yesteryear" is, and use that to suit their agenda.