Top 10 British/Irish Fighters of All Time

1. Ted 'Kid' Lewis (legendary fight series with the legendary Jack Britton, boxed Benny Leonard's ears off before ring invaded, beating Georges Carpentier before cheating cheap shot, to put that into perspective Leonard and Carpentier are top 10 all-time lb4lb world greats) 2. Jimmy Wilde (best Flyweight ever, rated as one of the three greatest punchers of all-time by Ring Magazine) 3. Jack 'Kid' Berg (64 wins in America, defeated the great Kid Chocolate) 4. Bob Fitzsimmons (first man ever, before Roy Jones Jr, to win world titles from Middleweight to Heavyweight) 5. Nigel Benn (most exciting fighter ever, beat former WBC champ in round one in Las Vegas, won the first ever fight between two WBC champs in most memorable brutal war ever) 6. Ken Buchanan (Laguna x 2, did good with a PEAK Duran) 7. Lloyd Honeyghan (Curry was rated as the best fighter in the world at the time of Honeyghan handing him his ass) 8. Chris Eubank (holds the record ammount of world title wins in British boxing history, along with Frank Bruno he is the most recognised British boxer ever outside of the ring in Britain, won the greatest ever British boxing match in 1990 when he owned Benn) 9. Barry McGuigan (lost to Chris Eubank's brother but won world title in 1985 and fought in 'Fight of the Year' 1986) 10. Owen Moran (crossed the Atlantic, proved he was better than Abe Attell and knocked out Battling Nelson) Honorable Mentions Jim Driscoll, Tommy Farr (gave Joe Louis a good fight), Benny Lynch, Randolph Turpin (beat Sugar Ray Robinson), Don Cockell (gave Rocky Marciano a good fight), Henry Cooper (dropped Cassius Clay), John H Stracey, Naseem Hamed, Ricky Hatton Mentions (modern) Jim Watt, Maurice Hope, John Conteh, Dennis Andries, Alan Minter, Herol Graham, Dave McAuley, Duke McKenzie, Steve Collins, Lennox Lewis

Comments (20)

number6

Many people dont class Lewis as a true brit,but that is the only way anyone who knows anything about boxing could leave Lewis off this list.

20y ago

_Beowulf_

their are none Huh? What do you mean?

20y ago

dino

their are none

20y ago

Bozo_no_no0305

(you really think he would of lived with Bowe from the first Bowe-Holyfield fight or Holyfield from the second Bowe-Holyfield fight? I don't think so somehow). Lewis was losing every round to Frank Bruno and clearly lost to Ray Mercer, the guy got knocked out by Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman, he lost to Holyfield in their second fight and what has Holyfield done since?, Are you ever a biased and delusional wanker. Lewis didn't have the opportunity to beat Bowe AGAIN (see the olympics where he stopped him) because Bowe was a giant chicken shit when it came to Lewis. Lewis lost rounds to Bruno until he pounded him into submission Lewis did not "clearly lose" to Ray Mercer. It was a 10 round war that easilly could have been scored a round either way. He lost to McCall and Rahman, and avenged both by stoppage. You should thank your lucky stars he did lose those fights, because if he didn't, you'd have a tougher time pushing your hatefull propoganda agasinst a guy who never lost a fight. He also "clearly" beat Holyfield in the rematch. He neglected the jab in the 2nd fight to an extent, but Holyfields flurrying to steal rounds didn't cut it. That fight was clearly a competitive win for Lewis. It's funny how you speak about your deluded drivel that contradicts actual results like it's factual. you are honestly one of the most difficult posters to read on this site with how blatently biased and delusional you are. Stick to sucking Eubanks's dick, becuase when you remove it from your mouth there's far too much garbage leaking out.

20y ago

Run8964

I haven't seen the fight for years, but from what I remember Mercer quite clearly won the fight by a fair few rounds. haha. Shoot yourself now please. Never pay again for live sex! | Hot girls doing naughty stuff for free! | Chat for free!

20y ago

kallsop

McGuigan is a Catholic, and, in a moment when Catholics and Protestant Christians were in the middle of a deeply rooted war in Northern Ireland, McGuigan and his girlfriend, a Protestant, got married. They dreamed of showing Ireland that both factions of Christians can get along. McGuigan reached a national hero status.... Now that we know your list is based on popularity and not talent, Henry Cooper has to be in the list for sure. Only Frank Bruno comes close to the fame that Henry achieved. Maybe John Conteh should be in the list too.

20y ago

OliverNo1

Dissapointed in you Juy - not to include Lewis is just plain silly. The way you have described Lewis as D and L against Holyfield is just BS - IF you are saying he lost the second fight then he definately won the first (you cant have that argument both ways). Barry Mac - FFS thats daft. And as for Bruno beating Lewis - dont make me chuckle.

20y ago

theironone

Does that mean I win???... LOL!... :D fuckin hell :rolleyes: ok your a super duper special winner today :D I'll send you your badge in the post

20y ago

theironone

well thats cleared that up then :)

20y ago

theironone

He never defended any portion of the world title any more than four times before either getting KTFO or quitting the sport when i read it i thought mart was referring to total not consecutive

20y ago

theironone

you did mart, apologies,i thought you referred to just defences you fool ;)

20y ago

JUYJUY

Its peoples different interpretations thats all, some people class as 'the world' being undisputed or linear champ, others regard all belt holders as world champs just your own personal opinion He never defended any portion of the world title any more than four times before either getting KTFO or quitting the sport

20y ago

JUYJUY

Yeah, but I said Lennox Lewis, won AND defended his crown 16 times. Well maybe you should of said that Lennox Lewis won OR defended a portion of the world title a total of 16 times (in 10 years against poor opposition).

20y ago

theironone

actually juy the tucker fight is classed as a 'defence', cos lewis was awarded the belt after riddick threw it in the bin (vacated) and on the strength of his win over ruddock, they did a norton on him so he was technically the champ making a defence against tucker

20y ago

theironone

Well if JUYJUY is gonna run by those rules... Chris Eubank was B]NEVER a World champion. Its peoples different interpretations thats all, some people class as 'the world' being undisputed or linear champ, others regard all belt holders as world champs just your own personal opinion

20y ago

JUYJUY

Lennox Lewis's defences: 1993-05-08 Tony Tucker - WBC Heavyweight Title 1993-10-01 Frank Bruno - WBC Heavyweight Title 1994-05-06 Phil Jackson - WBC Heavyweight Title 1997-02-07 Oliver McCall - WBC Heavyweight Title 1997-07-12 Henry Akinwande - WBC Heavyweight Title 1997-10-04 Andrew Golota - WBC Heavyweight Title 1998-03-28 Shannon Briggs - WBC Heavyweight Title 1998-09-26 Zeljko Mavrovic - WBC Heavyweight Title 1999-03-13 Evander Holyfield - WBC Heavyweight Title 1999-11-13 Evander Holyfield - WBC/WBA/IBF Heavyweight Title 2000-04-29 Michael Grant - WBC/IBF/IBO Heavyweight Title 2000-07-15 Francois Botha - WBC/IBF/IBO Heavyweight Title 2000-11-11 David Tua - WBC/IBF/IBO Heavyweight Title 2001-11-17 Hasim Rahman - WBC/IBF/IBO Heavyweight Title 2002-06-08 Mike Tyson - WBC/IBF/IBO Heavyweight Title 2003-06-21 Vitali Klitschko - WBC/IBO Heavyweight Title Obviously I have left out the 1st McCall/Rahman fights because they were not successfull defences of his crown. I count 16??? Nonsense. He won the title from Tony Tucker, so that wasn't a defence. He defended the title TWO times (not 16 times), then got KTFO. He won the title from Oliver McCall, so that wasn't a defence. He defended it FOUR times (not 16 times), then drew and lost to Holyfield. He defended the title THREE times (not 16 times) in the year 2000, then got KTFO. He won the title from Hasim Rahman, so that wasn't a defence. He defended the title TWO times (not 16 times), then quit the sport because he knew that Vitali would of handed him his ass yet again the rematch.

20y ago

theironone

mccall two tho mart was for the vacant title too so thats not counted

20y ago

theironone

he just got in above me :D

20y ago

theironone

lets put it this way i think he means a world title belt being one of the big 4 wbc, wba, ibf or wbo, he had the wbc the most and i agree with you he only had the 'world title' (as in undisputed) after he got the nod over evander then defended 3 times, then was reduced all other times to having the wbc strap which he had defended more than 3 times, whether we class him as a belt holder, or its a portion of the world title or whatever world title holder however each individual looks at it i think mart is classing lewis' defences since his first defence of the wbc

20y ago

JUYJUY

he probably means a portion of it juy, come on now if your being picky barry only had the wba, eubank the wbo, cal the wbo none were truly classed as undisputed, but lewis was He never defended a portion of the world title any more than four times before either getting KTFO or quitting the sport.

20y ago