Who is the greatest British boxer of all time???

[Kid_Diamond]

Ricky Hatton may be, after 5-6 big fights

[pinkpanther]

Has to be Nicky Piper

[theclawoftheTiger]

Ted KID Lewis is in my top ten all - time p4p and he was british

[J !]

He did do a lot of his training in Canada, though. I'm not denying his British-ness but the funny thing is that whenever he's here that accent of his seems to disappear, yet when he's back in Britain he tosses in as many British-isms as he can into his speech. Can you say poser?

yeah he was living in canada mate at the time with his mum so thats why he fought for canada in the olympics, i get the feeling he retuirned not due to his love for england though but because of more opportunities, money and exposure to become the first british heavyweight champ since Fitzsimmons.

so in some ways yeah guess you are right but as a Brit i'd say beggers cant be choosers

[gnostic19]

Judging by the # of posts on the site...it's bloody Eubanks.

[JUYJUY]

Judging by the # of posts on the site...it's bloody Eubanks.

He's the greatest in a showman sense.

[Bombardier]

yeah he was living in canada mate at the time with his mum so thats why he fought for canada in the olympics, i get the feeling he retuirned not due to his love for england though but because of more opportunities, money and exposure to become the first british heavyweight champ since Fitzsimmons.

so in some ways yeah guess you are right but as a Brit i'd say beggers cant be choosers

haha I guess how that's we feel too, considering that the next most-famous modern boxer that lived in Canada is Kirk Johnson we need to claim at least a piece of Lennox in order to feel a bit of pride .

I think that marketing had something to do with Lennox's decision though I'm not denying that he doesn't have some attachment to the place he was born either, it's just the accent thing that bugs me.