So, Bute would be the best overseas boxer to the UK since...?

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  1. Laikaka

    Laikaka Active Member Full Member

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    Tszyu? Kessler? Lacy?

    By 'best' I mean most highly regarded/rated at the time they fought here and not best over their whole career, or name/most famous etc.

    If anyone fancies it what would be the 'best since' chain going backwards to whoever you think was best ever UK import? (surely the 1951 Robinson 1951? or maybe Ali 1966? 1939 Armstrong, or whoever.)

    eg Bute-Kessler?-Tszyu?-Barrera?-McClellan?-McCallum? etc, etc. (Probably forgotten someone as just off the top of my head.)

    Also, is the quality of imports good enough? Personally I feel that the 80s was the last decade that we saw a healthy number of the world's best boxers over here despite promoters and certain pundits making out as if they're spoiling us. Or have the decades since been good enough in your opinion? If so what 'P4P' visitors have we had since back then? Or even top one or two from a division.
     
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  2. pathmanc1986

    pathmanc1986 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Halger was a beast against Minter
     
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  3. happydrinks

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    Bradley could probably be in there
     
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  4. Laikaka

    Laikaka Active Member Full Member

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    Certainly on performance but he wasn't really that highly regarded when he came here - mostly because he hadn't been tested and had a low profile.

    Really I'm questioning promoters' ability in recent times to bring over the best from abroad.
     
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  5. Nipple

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    McClellan sounds about right.
     
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  6. Bill C84

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    Tyson coming over to fight Francis was pretty big.
     
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  7. wrimc

    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Barrera at the Albert Hall for Lloyd
     
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    Joseph Laryea.
     
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  9. TFFP

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    :yep
     
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  10. jdempsey85

    jdempsey85 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Chop chop
     
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  11. kosaros

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    Bute's the best since Kessler, IMO.

    In the past 25 years, Marco Antonio Barrera, Azumah Nelson, Mike McCallum, Kostya Tszyu, Mark Breland and Gerald McClellan have been some of the stand-out names to compete over here.

    In terms of bringing over the big names, it has never been as good since the Solomons days and it'll probably never reach that level again.
     
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  12. Jasper Simone

    Jasper Simone Veteran Traveller Full Member

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    It's more to do with a complete unwillingness from the top American fighters to box abroad these days. Worse than I've ever known it in a bloody long time of following the sport.
     
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  13. Laikaka

    Laikaka Active Member Full Member

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    Too many lesser and weak WBO title fights also.
     
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    mike tyson
     
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  15. Trebus

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    Acelino Frietas, saw him at Doncaster Dome against Barry Jones.
     
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