There will be no "percieved" great fighters left in Britain if Joe Calzaghe loses.

[Mizzou]

They do. Probably bigger than boxing. Setanta (new sports channel) are doing their best to improve boxing coverage over here but it still pales in stature to American coverage.

Bland? He meant proper football. Not crash-helmet, body-padding, rugby for girls "football" you lot play.

No need for explanation ballbag, but thanks for the thought. Are Indians/Pakistanis better than whites at cricket?

[SHB]

Lampley called Pavlik , "the centrepiece of American boxing".

Oh dear.

In that case, their centrepiece is very much in the same condition as the one in my gran's house. And that's been torn down in the next few weeks ....

[Kris Silver]

I like Ricky Hatton, alot actually. But he isn't a top ten guy, and everyone knows that. If Joe loses, which is highly possible, much more than Vegas is giving it, IMO. What will British fans do? They are a passionate nation when it comes to boxing, yet they won't have one elite fighter. Atleast Lennox Lewis is still on HBO. He is by also the best announcer of the crew. Lennox was the man. It may be bleak for British boxing on a global scale.

By top ten guy you must mean p4p top 10. And how many Americans are in the p4p top ten, ooooh one more, 2 AFAIK. With 5x the population you'd expect 5x the amount in the top ten p4p, especially for so called more athletic nation, and mecca of boxing!?

You seem to mis interpret the word elite. Elite is performing at the top level, and there's numerous that do in their respective divisions, and are top ten there.

Joe Calzaghe - Number one LHW and was #1 SMW. P4P #3 and favoured over most from 160-175.

Ricky Hatton was in the p4p top ten before he lost to the p4p #1, he knows not far outside and will climb up into again soon no doubt. He's #1 in his division, and a few spots behind him is Junior Witter.

Nicky Cook is #7 in the Jr Lightweights having just beat Alex Arthur for the WBO belt.

Carl Froch is roughly #2 SMW taking a mean from most bodies and peoples views, he'll soon be a world title holder beating another top 10 ten division guy in Pascal and is only just getting going.

Clinton Woods is #7 LHW and has had some good wins over for eg. Johnson. He put out a bad performance recently against Tarver but he still wasn't knocked out by Tarver a big hitter. May fight again.

Enzo Maccrinelli is currently the #8 CW having lost to David Haye. He should have another title shot next year and will rise further.

David Haye was the #1 CW having unified the belts. He's already fought at HW and had some big fights ahead.


Having actually won numerous medals in the olympics there's also clearly guys on the way up. Considering a population a 5th of the size, to have top guys in so many divisions, many coming through, it's pretty decent. You probably didn't even know a few of those names or details on them.

[bsrizpac]

No need for explanation ballbag, but thanks for the thought. Are Indians/Pakistanis better than whites at cricket?

Pathetic? Check.
Insecure? Check.
Jealous? Check.

I give you DirkDigglerUK in all his sad sack of **** glory.

[Grimmer]

Don't worry, we still have Amir Kha-.....OH SH-

[S.G.]

David Haye and maybe some of our Olympic boxers will start turning pro soon... there'll always be at least 1 boxer over here who has the masses support

[Ryn0]

British people don't love boxing they love fighters. Most british boxing fans are Hatton or Calzaghe fans not boxing fans, most of them can't even name De La Hoya, I lived there for a few years so i'm speaking from experience

[Pullcounter]

I like Ricky Hatton, alot actually. But he isn't a top ten guy, and everyone knows that. If Joe loses, which is highly possible, much more than Vegas is giving it, IMO. What will British fans do? They are a passionate nation when it comes to boxing, yet they won't have one elite fighter. Atleast Lennox Lewis is still on HBO. He is by also the best announcer of the crew. Lennox was the man. It may be bleak for British boxing on a global scale.

the only guy that they have left is the china chinned haye if calzaghe loses.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Pathetic? Check.
Insecure? Check.
Jealous? Check.

I give you DirkDigglerUK in all his sad sack of **** glory.

You didnt even reply to one of my posts. Man you are really soooo bitter. You work yourself into such a rage over me that you cant think or even see straight.

****ing hillarious.

[Patty Tanager]

The best two weeks in British boxing history?:

November 8th, Calzaghe win - CHECK
November 15th, Haye win - CHECK
November 22th, Hatton win - CHECK.