Who is the Greatest British fighter of All-Time?

Bruno won a single belt against a weakish champion, after getting beat bu other weakish champions in previous efforts. I wouldn't go so far as to say he was just a celebrity boxer, but come on man...he is no great.

Hatton is the epitome of what is wrong with the sport now...handpicks a bunch of paper titlists and guys who stumbled across belts and walks round saying he's won 7 world titles. I'll leave it to others to tell you where he belongs in the British all time p4p, I've made my rating very clear.

 

Hatton would probably be 20-30. I wouldn't rank him above Benn, Eubank, Calzaghe perhaps even Hamed of the recent fighters, and then there are quite a few other old timers that havn't even had a mention.

 

I wouldnt consider Bruno, he may have been popular with the general public and in the UK in his own way he became bigger than boxing, but no way was he anywhere near top 10. He won a belt granted but I doubt if anyone would ever have considered him the man at heavy. Nice guy though.

Ricky Hatton has done well and made the most of his talent. If he had beaten Mayweather then he would have definately been in the all time UK top 10. Unfortunately he was outclassed which is a pity as it cost me a fortune to go to that fight!

 

surley u realised he was gonna loose girv. and i bet you would have still gone win lose or draw????

Hatton would be number one of all time on my list as Mayweather is number 1 on my p4p of all time, so to beat hime when Floyd was still in his prime would put him way above 10.

I dont rate hatton for several reasons, and dislike him for severall more. But he has ashcieved more than 99.9% of not just british fighters but world wide fighters, inluding some that have been mentioned in the lists in this thread. 2 weight world champ, went to america wen he could have stayed with warren and thougt wbu bums, beat the number 1 at light welter who was avoided by one and all.

still gets on my bloody nerves though.

 

great point. there aren't many boxers in the history of the sport that have been effective when fighting in conditions that they are not used to. if not for duran, ken would of reigned for years

the win over laguna was the stuff of absolute greatness. to beat an ath champ in his own backyard, in an inferno of heat, takes some doing

 

Randy Turpin no1.

He beat a prime version of the best p4p fighter in the history of the sport, Sugar Ray Robinson.

He beat the best of the best at the peak of his powers. It doesnt get any better than that.

Even if Hatton had beat Mayweather, it would have come in a distant second to beating a prime SRR. THATS how big that win was. I have never understood why englanders in particular dont give Turpin more credit for this win.

For people to have him no10 in their all time brit rankings makes me sad considering he holds a win over a prime Sugar Ray Robinson... Come on. Lets get real here.

 

How could Hamed be around 20-30?????

 

how the hell did frank get on that list?

 

Because he delivered less than he promised. Simple.

 

hes probably not in many peoples eyes but to me its lennox lewis

 

I would say Fitzsimmons is British: he was born here after all and I have never really heard Austrailians claim him as their's.

If we go down that road, we could start saying Lewis is Canadian(though he did live here signficantly longer).

For me, it's always been Jimmy Wilde but I suppose a strong argument could be made in favour of Fitz...Turpin is less arguable even with the victory over SRR...and the valiant effort in the rematch.

 

if anyone was to cliam him it wud be NZ, DEFO A BRIT

 

I would have Hatton around the top 10 - above both Benn and Eubank to be honest.

Sky Sports had him about 8, with Calzaghe 9 (prior to PBF fight), with Lennox Lewis 1, and Lloyd Honeyghan 10 - don't remember the rest!

 

Benny Lynch
Lennox Lewis
Ken Buchanan
John Conteh
Nigel Benn
Calzaghe / Eubank ( take your pick )
Hatton / Watt ( and again )
David Haye - he'll probably move up !

the only Turpin fight I have seen any of was Robinson and he lost the title right back so I can't comment and I have never seen any film of Kid lewis

 

Ricky Hatton as a top 10 is disgraceful. Research the history of British boxing.