British Boxers Better Than American Boxers

[jcarr71]

He's clearly just an alternate account to mess with you guys, and a good one at that.

[TheBeast07]

I can assure you that I am not an alternate account, I am merely a passiionate boxing fanatic who is just expressing his views. You may agree with me, you may not, I don't care, that is the beauty of an open forum like that.

The reasoning behind my views in my last post:

Benn has a better amateur record than Ali
Bruno beat McCall, Tyson beat Bruno, Lewis beat Tyson, Williams beat Tyson, Harrison beat Williams, Collins beat Eubank & Benn and retired as the champion.

Simple

McGuigan was probably better than what Maywhatever is now

Rule Britannia!

[Hydro]

of course not.

but it is expected when the u.s. has more people.

for its population and size, puerto rico is the best boxing country.

[SnoopySmurf]

Per capita, Armenia wins by a long shot. Low population. Extremely low number of boxers. And I think they have 2 world champs.

[dans]

Why have the forums become so much about America vs. Great Britain?

[$partacus]

Why are you posting in a thread that is almost 2 years old?

[Grand Champ]

Some results to be proud of for the English are Owen Moran crossing the Atlantic and knocking out Battling Nelson (even though Nelson was from European heritage - didn't he grow up in the States?), Jack 'Kid' Berg crossing the Atlantic and beating Kid Chocolate, Nigel Benn beating up the most feared Yanks in the business - one in their own backyard and the other time having to climb back in the ring after 30 secs, and Joe Calzaghe winning every minute of every round against their 'next big thing'.

Battling Nelson was a Dane born in cobenhagen ''The durable Dane'' just for future notice.

[The Hammer]

I don't think where someone is from determines how good of a fighter he is going to be.

However, in the past the US has had the advantage of having the most and best boxing gyms in the inner cities of America.

[mojack]

Its a hard argument considering america has 10 times more athletes than Britain due to the size difference. But apart from Lewis, unless Hatton and Calzaghe have and win some major fights this year id say america has the better boxers. The likes of De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr, Mosely,Winky Wright,Floyd Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins are in a different league compared to most British boxers.

I agree, but they do have a bigger pond than the UK, but to put things on level..
Zaghe, Hatton, Benn, Eubank, Naseem, Lennox, Hatton, McGuigan, Buchanan, John Conteh

X 10


That wouldn't be a bad turn out.

P4P the UK produces the better boxers than America, if you cut the US boxing talent to 1/10th to the size of the UK you wouldn't have much to go on?

To me it's like saying my gym produces more talent than yours...yes but your gym holds 100 boxers with 10 rings but but my gym only holds 10 boxers with 1 rung....

It's all academic! because America is HUGE!

In other words if America was the size of the UK, the UK would produce the better boxers.

[smirf123]

i am from england btw

as far as boxing goes america is and always has been better. You will get one top brit eg. hatton, lewis, conteh etc. but overall america has had the better boxers in any era. my top ten all time greats would have no brits in tbh.

but i hope haye becomes heavyweight champ