Rank our SMW "World" Champions

ssssshhh!!! stop using logic - it will confuse the natives! :good

 

He is a **** dancer too which only highlights his poor footwork :deal :yep

 

6000 posts of utter bollocks in such a short time!

Go back to your playstation!

 

:rofl

I have a wii :deal

 

Yawn!

 

Still quoting me though sweetheart :deal

 

The Thornton fight was his toughest (and his biggest upset), nearly lost an ear.

 

Not this again. I've dredged up an old post where I feel i've countered these points before:

I'm sorry mate, but it's a tad disingenuous to suggest Benn posed anywhere near the threat he had posed pre-McClellan. I find it bewildering that anybody could try to argue that Benn wasn't shot. He lost the last three fights of his career. Watch Benn-Malinga and tell me he wasn't done.
As regards Eubank not being over-the hill because he was 'undefeated', I find it strange that some seek to think that just because a fighter is 'undefeated' that he can't have deteriorated - In Eubank's case mentally as well as physically. Ricky Hatton decline seems to have begun the moment Tsyzu quit on his stool at the end of the 11th, and yet he managed to find a way of scraping by at world level, until an elite fighter at his peak beat what remained of Hatton's punch resistance out of him. Devastatingly I might add. Current unbeaten champs who have appeared to be on the slide of late include Zsolt Erdei (don't laugh) and Chris John.
The fact that Eubank proceeded to be 'competitive with Calzaghe and Thompson (in the 190lb cruiserweight division no less), just proves (to me anyway) that he could no longer win at world level; that being 'competitive' was all he could hope to achieve.
I feel my point is proven by the circumstances surrounding Collins's own retirement - why would he have retired if he felt he was able to continue winning at world level? It is not as though he had a '0' to protect. He retired because he heeded the medical advice he received, and acknowledged that his decline was irreversible, this despite a fifteen fight winning streak which had seen him win two world titles.

Oh, and would you like to explain why Witter & Woods weren't worthy titlists?

 

Joe Calzaghe
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Steve Collins
Carl Froch
Robin Reid
Richie Woodhall
Glenn Catley

 

+1 :good

Dan keep it up with your Calzaghe hate and you can **** off my freinds list... :bart

 

throw in Watson and Bomber Graham.

 

Nigel BENN
Chris EUBANK
Joe CALZAGHE
Steve COLLINS
Carl FROCH
Robin REID
Richie WOODHALL
Glenn CATLEY

 

Holmesy

 

Calzaghe
Benn
Collins
Eubank
Froch
Reid
Woodhall