what a time to be a fan in britain

Murray's facing another Brit so it WILL be eleven after next week!!

 

Not forgetting that Haskins is the mandatory challenger at flyweight.

 

european title means nothing nowadays. Its been cheapened by the plethora of 'world' titles around today, champion of europe means **** all when a guy with an IBO, WBU or whatever title can gatecrash your party & say, "Im a WORLD champion"

If I had a fighter under my wing, I would dodge the whole 'traditional' route, cos its had its day.

 

I think only negative for me is that some of our champions have won vacant titles against relatively weak opposition but it's still a fantastic time for boxing in this country.

 

err, thanks noob for accepting my post

 

Like I said before in another thread, the only Brits I would say are currently 'true' Euro champions are Munroe, Rhodes and possibly Magee.

 

Yep Euro title has been degraded, and its not looking any better with this new WBO Euro champion belt, too many shitty ways to get to the top these days fight a journeyman for a title and cling to it until you get a shot.

Govern bodies should make fighters fight for rankings instead of handing them out to anyone with no loses on there record.

 

Yeah i couldn't argue with that.

I do think most of our champions are worthy but at same time i think of people in past who had to fight some mean ****ers to win a EBU title and fell short. Jason Booth traveled far and wide to win on both occasions and i felt he was on short end of a decision against Makhmutov. Luckily Jason's is now at peak of his powers and looking beyond European level.

 

That guy Enzo fought looked terrible!!!

Whos our euro champs now, then?

Audley
Enzo
Cleverly
Magee
Barker
Rhodes
Hatton
McKloskey
Munroe (vacated?)
McDonnell

 

To me the Euro still has some clout, sure there has been a soft touch or 2 compared to how it used to be but thats because the EBU are keen to keep the titles busy.

Also while it may have been easy for Barker Enzo Hatton Audley etc to pick the belt up(I know Audley never won it easy but Sprott aint top10 in Europe), they have serious mandatories in the very near future so it aint an easy title to keep hold of.

This is so much better than having a bunch of Intercuntinental WBU WBF title holders, good times

 

I agree with your thread title but here are my reasons on why its a great time to be a GB fan :

Khan
Haye
Mitchell
Froch
Brook
Bellew
Cleverley
De Gale
Groves
Gavin

:deal