Where does Danny Williams rank among best British heavies of all time?

Let's be real here.... it's not like British heavies are a formidable bunch, is it?

[Oasis_Lad]

It's definitely between Danny, Frank and Lennox for me....ummmm... definitely.

[lman2k2]

i think id take him on a good day,seroulsy tho top 10

[Davros?]

behind lennox, bruno, bugner and henry cooper. that makes him top 5

1. Lewis
2. Bruno
3. Fitzsimmons
4. Bugner
5. Cooper

[Gojira]

Dannys got a rematch with John McDermott on the 8th november this year.

[Kid McCoy]

1. Lennox Lewis
2. Joe Bugner
3. Tommy Farr
4. Frank Bruno
5. Henry Cooper

Williams is somewhere below that group, but probably top 20.

[Derranged]

Danny Williams retired Vitali. Its common knowledge, Vitali may have won the fight but the force of Dannys punches ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and caused Vitali to feel the true force of Dannys punches for a whole week after the fight.

Vitali decided there and then that he knew he had to retire and duck a rematch with Danny Williams rather than recieve another sustained beating.

Yea Williams was robbed in that fight. He kept slipping on the floor, from all those ketchup packets Williams had in his trunks. That was NOT blood on the mat.

[RJJp4pbaby]

You're not sure if he's joking. So you actually think that he thinks that Danny Williams can punch holes in the space time continuum. Okaaay.......

Wouldn't be surprised coming from a brit. the hype around their fighters and the biased nature of their Tv commentary is disturbing. TBH that comment was obviously a joke but the thread starter seems pretty serious! in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king so who cares if Danny is top ten of 'British' heavyweights? i see kid mccoy's list has a canadian medallist and a hungarian in it! Ok you can have Bugner the Hungarian, but he's behind Cooper for me.

[Kid McCoy]

Wouldn't be surprised coming from a brit. the hype around their fighters and the biased nature of their Tv commentary is disturbing. TBH that comment was obviously a joke but the thread starter seems pretty serious! in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king so who cares if Danny is top ten of 'British' heavyweights? i see kid mccoy's list has a canadian medallist and a hungarian in it! Ok you can have Bugner the Hungarian, but he's behind Cooper for me.

Something like 37 members of America's Olympic team this year were born overseas. David Trezeguet, who scored the winning goal for France in Euro 2000, was born and raised in Argentina. I don't recall a murmur of complaint from either country.

So if having foreign-born and foreign-raised athletes representing them doesn't bother those fine nations, I don't see why it should bother us.

By the way, why do you rate Cooper over Bugner?

[RJJp4pbaby]

buigner was a bum, but at least Cooper had power. He was just easily cut, so his skin was thin whcih hs nothing to do with his boxing skills.

the probelm with lewis is he was born in england but brought up in Canada where he lived and boxed well into his 20's. he represented thema t two olympics but then decided the cash register was bigger ine England. nothing about him in boxing terms is british and you know it, but have no other choice. Them athletes you mentioned probably had more to do with their country of choice than Lewis. A reporter mentioned what a fine weekend it had been for british sport (He Ko'd Tyson when England beat Argentina at World Cup, and soem **** happened in othjer sports too i think) and he replied 'big up the BRITISH football team'. That just about sums up how british he wasn't.