Who is the UK's best boxer of the last 30 years?

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Lennox Lewis followed by Carl Froch.

Joe Calazaghe is absurdly overrated by casuals and the welsh.

 

No problem with either Lewis or JC being given that label two elite British boxers.

Carl Froch as tough as they come great career,but a fair bit behind those two.

 

Probably Honeyghan, Graham or Hatton.

 

In terms of sheer talent,.Errol Christie and Colin McMillan are surely up there.. Don't get more talented than these two, unless your name is Roy Jones or Pernell Whitaker..

 

Eubank got a gift decision against fat, talentless club fighter Dan Schommer. :deal

 

Graham didn't even win a world title.

 

Dan was clearly not talentless, it looked like he had faster hands than Eubank, a mastery sense of positioning, range and timing, and one of the fights of his on TV in the States showed a clean southpaw left-hand knockout (Michael Moorer made his debut on that card and his KO wasn't half as good). He outboxed Virgil Hill and Tim Littles in the amateurs, beating them both on points.

 

Big deal? He beat McCallum and Kalambay (II), clearly, only to be robbed on points. That would've been like Hatton out-boxing and out-pointing Mayweather.

Graham was probably the best ever in the whole of Europe in terms of sheer unorthodox pure boxing ability.

 

Maybe not "talentless" but he was hardly world beater was he? and he was virtually inactive for 2 years before the Eubank fight.

 

He managed himself, and did a terrible job of it. Tim Littles beat Michael Moorer at the US amateur champs in '86, and Schommer beat Littles in the very next fight that tourney. Moorer had Emanuel Steward's connections and was world champion in a few fights! Schommer, nowhere.

Look at Herol, no world title shot for 10-12 years, despite beating everyone else.

Eubank had it right, blag a money-man (Hearn) and get a title shot ASAP, defend it against lesser boxers (but bigger names) than Graham or Schommer, like Benn, Stretch and Watson for big money, or small names like Malinga, Jarvis, Essett, Thornton, Giminez and Holmes so he could take 97-98% of the purse. Bank it, bank it, bank it. Spend it, spend it, spend it. Don't wait around.

Pro boxing isn't about how talented you are, it's a business; it's about how well you can talk or how lucky you can get, how well managed you are, etc.

Schommer probably had slightly more talent than Eubank himself, the way Eubank describes his countering ability in his book. He almost seems to rate him on Graham's level.

 

I have a fight of Schommer's from Ballys in Vegas (where Benn fought Barkley), live on ESPN. Hardly a club fight. His KD's/KO's were more clinical than Michael Moorer's earlier in the night, both one-rounders.

 

He narrowly lost the fight for a vacant world title with a prime Mike McCallum. That fight could easily have gone Herol's way. He should have been given an immediate rematch anyway, since they were contesting a vacant title.
It took 3 great fighters to beat Graham (up until 1992 or '93 when he was stopped by Frank Grant, past his prime), and none of them outclassed him at all.
He made a pretty decent comeback a few years later too.

 

I'm saying Calzaghe