Do British fans overhype their fighters?

[T-97]

Joe Calzaghe isn't british, he's welsh and he is better then those british fools at boxing.

Sigh.

British = Welsh/English/Scottish.


As for the question, then no. It's only idiots that pretend they do.

How many people on here said Khan was any good?

^^What Duke said.

Most of us predicted him to be KTFO by the first puncher he faced, no one realised how hard Prescott hit.

[Check]

I think they do overrate their guys. In this case they didn't though. Most brits were knocking Khan. I didn't really see anyone hyping him that much. Back to the question though, yeah they hype their guys but so does almost every country. UK is much smaller than lets say USA so they don't have as many prospects so it's easy to get behind the guys that put together a good record.

[Oriachim]

I think they do overrate their guys. In this case they didn't though. Most brits were knocking Khan. I didn't really see anyone hyping him that much. Back to the question though, yeah they hype their guys but so does almost every country. UK is much smaller than lets say USA so they don't have as many prospects so it's easy to get behind the guys that put together a good record.

QFT what tis guy said.

also brit = scot/wales/england/south ireland.

[kenshin112]

khan was a fraud end of

real talent is people like calzaghe, kevin mitchell, people who fight with heart, these frauds come and go and khans another he will be back but will he be improved i think not
Prescott was sensational thats heart he had the eye of the tiger right there

[BlackHat]

I say no, only the nuthuggers. And the media of course.

[T-97]

khan was a fraud end of

real talent is people like calzaghe, kevin mitchell, people who fight with heart, these frauds come and go and khans another he will be back but will he be improved i think not
Prescott was sensational thats heart he had the eye of the tiger right there

Khan has heart. He was hurt against Limond and Gomez, came back to win. Was dropped VERY hard by Prescott and was up at 3 and he didn't run, he went right back to fight and got KOd. He has heart, but no chin.

[Duke McKenzie_]

Someone needs to bump a 2005 Jeff "LOL" Lacy thread.

[sparked_85]

We overhype all our sports stars!! all of them.

Apart from indoor cycling, we ****ing own that sport. Shame nobody really likes it, cares about it or would pay to watch it or endeavor to write about it.

Our footballers helped themselves to a sensational 2-0 victory over the mighty Andorrans.

[micky_knox]

fans dont but promoters do

[sparked_85]

Khan has heart. He was hurt against Limond and Gomez, came back to win. Was dropped VERY hard by Prescott and was up at 3 and he didn't run, he went right back to fight and got KOd. He has heart, but no chin.

He does, it's a shame you can't role Amir Khan and Kevin Mitchell into one fighter, they'd be a world champ for sure.

Kevin Mitchell has a classic chin.