Greatest British fighters since 1945

[Humean]

After comments I made in the Carl Froch appreciation thread it got me wondering what my top 20 British fighters since 1945 would be. I have 16 that i'm happy with, if not necessarily in this order, anyone else care to make their own list as well as criticize mine?

I limited it to post 1945 in part because there is good video footage on I think pretty much everyone on this list.

1: BUCHANAN
2: CALZAGHE
3: NASEEM HAMED
4: LENNOX LEWIS
5: CONTEH
6: EUBANK
7: BENN
8: TURPIN
9: HOPE
10: MINTER
11: HONEGHAN
12: MCGUIGAN
13: STRACEY
14: WATT
15: MCGOWAN
16: WINSTONE
17: ???
18: ???
19: ???
20: ???

Possible candidates for missing positions, some good, some not so.

FROCH
HATTON
RINTY MONAGHAN
DUKE MCKENZIE
DOWNES
JOHNNY CALDWELL
MCCULLOUGH
HAYE
NELSON
ANDRIES
CARL THOMPSON
SCOTT HARRISON
COWDELL
BRUNO
MAGRI
CHARNLEY
MILLS
CHRIS FINNEGAN
KEVIN FINNEGAN
GRAHAM
COOPER
HODKINSON
WATSON
MARSH
RUDKIN
WOODS
WOODHALL
REID
PYATT
CATLEY
MCCRORY
EASTMAN

[Sugar Adam Ali]

froch, hatton, andries, watson all deserve some love,,,


im a huge hatton fan so im being biased

[Humean]

froch, hatton, andries, watson all deserve some love,,,


im a huge hatton fan so im being biased

I'm not a huge Hatton fan so I am perhaps biased the other way. Hatton is still a strong candidate for 17-20 though.


I'm hoping someone has good knowledge on Rinty Monaghan and Johnny Caldwell as they have both been blind spots for me.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I'm not a huge Hatton fan so I am perhaps biased the other way. Hatton is still a strong candidate for 17-20 though.


I'm hoping someone has good knowledge on Rinty Monaghan and Johnny Caldwell as they have both been blind spots for me.

hatton should be higher than alan minter IMO,, I never thought that highly of him in historical terms.. Good fighter but nothing special about him IMO

[Humean]

hatton should be higher than alan minter IMO,, I never thought that highly of him in historical terms.. Good fighter but nothing special about him IMO

He did beat Antuofermo twice as well as a number of the best middleweight contenders of the era. I agree he was nothing really special but neither was Hatton.

[ShoulderRoll]

Lennox should be ranked higher than Hamed imo.

[LacedUp]

After comments I made in the Carl Froch appreciation thread it got me wondering what my top 20 British fighters since 1945 would be. I have 16 that i'm happy with, if not necessarily in this order, anyone else care to make their own list as well as criticize mine?

I limited it to post 1945 in part because there is good video footage on I think pretty much everyone on this list.

1: BUCHANAN
2: CALZAGHE
3: NASEEM HAMED
4: LENNOX LEWIS
5: CONTEH
6: EUBANK
7: BENN
8: TURPIN
9: HOPE
10: MINTER
11: HONEGHAN
12: MCGUIGAN
13: STRACEY
14: WATT
15: MCGOWAN
16: WINSTONE
17: ???
18: ???
19: ???
20: ???

Possible candidates for missing positions, some good, some not so.

FROCH
HATTON
RINTY MONAGHAN
DUKE MCKENZIE
DOWNES
JOHNNY CALDWELL
MCCULLOUGH
HAYE
NELSON
ANDRIES
CARL THOMPSON
SCOTT HARRISON
COWDELL
BRUNO
MAGRI
CHARNLEY
MILLS
CHRIS FINNEGAN
KEVIN FINNEGAN
GRAHAM
COOPER
HODKINSON
WATSON
MARSH
RUDKIN
WOODS
WOODHALL
REID
PYATT
CATLEY
MCCRORY
EASTMAN

Fitzsimmons?

[LacedUp]

Lennox should be ranked higher than Hamed imo.

Hamed shouldn't be #3 or in top 5, but Froch should be in top 10 if not top 5 for sure.

I don't know why people overlook him in these sort of rankings.

[Humean]

Lennox should be ranked higher than Hamed imo.

I'm sure many would agree with that, I might be won around to that view but at the moment I rate Hamed higher than Lewis.

Fitzsimmons?

Since 1945 so that excludes Fitzsimmons.

Hamed shouldn't be #3 or in top 5, but Froch should be in top 10 if not top 5 for sure.

I don't know why people overlook him in these sort of rankings.

Froch top 5 but not Hamed top 5? You cannot be serious.

I also think because Froch is active it is harder to judge. So for example if Bute beats Pascal then that increases Froch's win against Bute I think. I confess I am not, and never have been, a big Froch fan but I do think it is best waiting for him to retire to get a better perspective upon his career.

[Daddy T]

After comments I made in the Carl Froch appreciation thread it got me wondering what my top 20 British fighters since 1945 would be. I have 16 that i'm happy with, if not necessarily in this order, anyone else care to make their own list as well as criticize mine?

I limited it to post 1945 in part because there is good video footage on I think pretty much everyone on this list.

1: BUCHANAN
2: CALZAGHE
3: NASEEM HAMED

too high ... very entertaining fighter of course ... but no