Comments Thread For: Carl Froch Demands Respect For His 'Favourite' British Title

[Jack_sh*t]

The Lonsdale belt is without question the classiest one in our sport & to win one is an honour for any British boxer. However it's more than winning it that counts & that's winning it outright. Names along with Froch include such legends as Jimmy Wilde, Jackie Brown, Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh, Len Harvey, Jackie Patterson, Johnnie Owen, Paul Hodkinson, Ken Buchanan, Jim Watt, Colin Jones, Kirkland Laing, Lloyd Honeyghuin, Alan Minter, Chris & Kevin Finnegan, Terry Downes, Randolph Turpin, Dennis Andries, Henry Cooper (trice), Lennox Lewis + plenty more have achieved it, while others such as Benny Lynch, Jack "Kid" Berg, John Conteh, John H.Stracey, Maurice Hope, Ricky Hatton & Joe Calzaghe just fell short.
Just take a look at the oversized trashy looking trinkets such as WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO, NABA, NABF & there's no comparison apart from the more up market Ring Magazine belt. Even the gay looking Commonwealth strap & the over sized blue EBU have taken a dive compared with what they were, but the Lord Lonsdale challenge belt has never changed or ever will. It's right up there with the FA Cup, Wimbledon Trophy & the Claret jug. "Pure Class"!!...

It means different things to different people I guess.

Kirklaind Laing may have been the toughest weed-head the universe has ever produced.

[famicommander]

Err.. It's National bruv... Britain is a nation, no a region.

Semantics. It's irrelevant. If world belts are worthless then continental belts are even more worthless, and national belts are a whole different tier of worthless.

You can't claim that world titles have become meaningless on one hand and then try to pretend a national belt matters on the other hand. It's a ****** trinket.

[Jack_sh*t]

Semantics. It's irrelevant. If world belts are worthless then continental belts are even more worthless, and national belts are a whole different tier of worthless.

You can't claim that world titles have become meaningless on one hand and then try to pretend a national belt matters on the other hand. It's a ****** trinket.

Worthlessness appears to be your specialist subject, where did you study floccinaucinihilipilification?

Please indicate where I claimed that world titles have become meaningless? Would you still consider them a ****** trinket if you had one with your name on?