Brit boxers have TRUE GRIT...IMO

[adamk1304]

lets jst say that ALL BOXERS hav true grit, cos they box?

i agree.........

[Ted The Bull]

lets jst say that ALL BOXERS hav true grit, cos they box?

No, no, that's might be too easy. I think it's a matter of degree. Benn, Watson and Eubank had a special quality that is hard to articuatre...but it was palpable.

[Hydro]

lets jst say that ALL BOXERS hav true grit, cos they box?

It's all relative.

Anyone that steps in the ring has heart but compared to other fighters, they may lack it.

[Ted The Bull]

Well, that's what Einstein said so I suspect you are on the right track.....

[Ted The Bull]

From Bob Webb via email from the UK:

Sir Ted,

You have an uncanny eye for the truth. Of course our boys show grit. It's often all they've got!

Seriously, we are perpetual under-dogs in most sports - don't know why, maybe we just don't take it so seriously as other nations.

Witness our prowess on the cricket pitches against the all-conquering Aussies, or in Rugby against the best of the All-Blacks, Springboks, Kiwis and French, not to mention our domestic rivalries with the Scots, Welsh and Irish.

Forget football: although we have as many talented players as any other nation we just don't gel as a team - ever, apart from 1966 with home advantage!

Our fighters have always been, on average, second tier, even our very best ones! There are notable exceptions to that, namely Lennox Lewis, Ted Kid Lewis, Jimmy Wilde, Bob Fitzsimmons, but the rest had always over-performed to win their international stripes, but usually once only. Hanging on to a world title has always been the difficulty.

But, yes, once in a while they raise their game against a foreign opponent and secure their place in history, often against the odds. So, your definition is true. They show True Grit.

Thanks for that, Sir Ted.

[SnoopySmurf]

So the top level champs have no grit? Makes no sense at all.

[Ted The Bull]

So the top level champs have no grit? Makes no sense at all.

Wo said that?

[Run]

Perpetual underdogs in sports? Like Soccer?

No. If anything I'd say you guys are a tad bit overrated in that department.



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[SnoopySmurf]

Wo said that?

If the underdog UK fighters are the ones with "True Grit" then what do the champs have? Hand lotion?

And Lennox Lewis was first - Jaimaican. Then Canadian. Then he moved to the UK.

[Kid Achilles]