Is British Boxing Done After Hatton and Calzaghe retires?

[ophqui]

You must be a blind fool if you even compare Lacy to Berto.They fight nothing alike.One has ability the other has a punch.Lacy can't be a counter puncher or stick a good jab in your face.Bertos defense ****s on lacys

no i didnt compare lacy and berto in talent or style. learn to read. I said they are both hype jobs and berto will be exposed as lacy was.

[ALT-Assassin]

In my opinion both Hatton and Calzaghe have squandered their potential chances of recognition as world recognised HOF's by not fighting in America earlier in their careers and fighting a lot of bums most of their careers........... Calzaghe would rather fight RRJ than Pavlik!........that fight should of happened about five years earlier.........

You need to show some respect for Hatton.He fought plenty of times in the United States early in his career and stepped up to fight the former P4P champion Floyd Mayweather.Calzaghe wouldn't dream of doing this if he was in Hattons posistion.

[ALT-Assassin]

no i didnt compare lacy and berto in talent or style. learn to read. I said they are both hype jobs and berto will be exposed as lacy was.

Relax I just wanted to see how many British people I could piss off.If I offended you my bad.

[Pullcounter]

Is British Boxing Done After Hatton and Calzaghe retires?Yes or no?

they still have haye and khan.

[DrJohn6]

Berto doesn't have good defense. He has great talent on the offensive end but his defense isn't something to get all hyped up about. And Berto's speed isn't nearly as fast as Mayweather's was.

[Breakbeat]

You need to show some respect for Hatton.He fought plenty of times in the United States early in his career and stepped up to fight the former P4P champion Floyd Mayweather.Calzaghe wouldn't dream of doing this if he was in Hattons posistion.

Hatton stepped up and got his chin check hooked........... he was ok fighting guys when he could employ his hold and hit, head in face tactics........when he couldn't against Floyd he was exposed.

[adietheforestfa]

Haye
Maccrenelli
Froch
Barker
Murray
Khan
Plus several outstanding amatures who could be very good.

British boxing is in great shape

[Dynamite Kid]

Once Calzaghe retires after his fight with Jones and David Haye gets dismantled by the behemoth Klithchko,they will have china chined Khan and Hatton who would never step up to 147 and **** with the elite.We already have someone who will take Maywethers spot again and his name is Andre Berto he has that slick Mayweather defense with just as much speed as Floyd,with one of the most devastating uppercuts I have ever seen.Berto is the complete package offense and defense

yeah i agree Berto has a great defence against someone like Rodriguez but he has been tagged by Estrada and Rivera and been down in the ameteurs a few times by all acounts his defence is not great at all ,when he shows the kinda D he did against Rodrigues against top quality fighters then i will take notice and aknowledge his defensive skill

no question his offence is terrific but his Defence and durability are a differenet story IMO

[Kris Silver]

Haye
Maccrenelli
Froch
Barker
Murray
Khan
Plus several outstanding amatures who could be very good.

British boxing is in great shape

Yup, not to mention;

Alex Arthur
Clinton Woods
Nicky Cook
Junior Witter
David Haye
Bradley Pryce

Loads of up and comers aswell. Amazed some ppl just think we've only got Calzaghe and Hatton, I mean fairly ignorant gotta be said. Just because you haven't seen much of them doesn't mean there not already good or coming through, I'd rather ppl asked rather than exposed theyre ignorance listing the only 2 fighters they clearly only know about much.

[msagrain]

The thing is we have got a lot of good armatures coming through at the moment. Tyson Fury been one who didn’t make the Olympic team but he was good enough to. This year a Beijing week are taking a record 8 boxers. That is the most we have ever taken to an Olympic competition. On Sky Sports they are shown all the new guys who come from a good boxing pedigree, Matthew Marsh winning a British title after 11 fights is a good thing. The government is making sure the boxing academies are well funded for 2012. So within the next 5 years I expect some young boxer from the UK to shine.