Rank the top 5 British heavyweights in history

Nationality is a grey area really, unless you’re dealing with someone who was born, raised and lived their life in the same country that their parents were from.

My wife for example was born in South Africa, and has spent most of her life in England. Nevertheless, she considers herself Irish (and has an Irish passport), and if I even suggest a counter argument I’ll at the very least be sleeping on the sofa tonight.

I think for the purpose we’re discussing (arbitrary rankings of fighters), all you can do is set criteria, go along with it, and not get too hung up about it either way.

Is Bugner Hungarian? Are Hide and Alinwande Nigerian? It’s a pretty deep rabbit hole....

 

If that isn't /thread, I'm not sure what is!

 

And that was the reason behind the query. Is he embraced as British because he is GREAT as the determining factor? Because prior to becoming great the sense I get is that the populous didn’t accept him...rather they felt he was using it conveniently as a platform rather than a sense of national identity. So what changed? Was it his greatness or his birthplace that led to this position.

 

I think he would last a bit longer than that. Not the biggest of heavyweight but the ‘Dancing Destroyer’ did have very nimble footwork and fast hand speed, arguably amongst the fastest British hwts ever. I wouldn’t put him on the overall top 5 British heavyweights though.

 

Gene or Deontay?

 

Fitzsimmons had his last fight in Australia in1909 when he challenged Bill Lang for the National title,he hadn't previously fought there for 19 years

 

Lol that’s weird. I always thought that Lewis had that upper class English accent the kind that Chris Eubank is always trying to mimic. Never thought that it was a Canadian one though that would make more sense given his background.

 

Lewis
Fury
Bugner
Bruno
Mason