Best British boxer?

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  • DonairesRevenge
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    #11
    #1. Jimmy Wilde
    #2. Lennox Lewis
    #3. Benny Lynch
    #4. Ted Kid Lewis
    #5. Ken Buchannan
    #6. Bob Fitzsimmons
    #7. Joe Calzaghe
    #8. John Conteh
    #9. Lloyd Honeyghan
    #10 Nigel Benn

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    • Dave Rado
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      #12
      Originally posted by McBean
      I can't put everyone in here so hopefully the list is good enough.
      No it isn't.

      Jimmy Wilde is the #1 British boxer of all time in all credible ATG lists, head and shoulders above anyone else.

      Ted "Kid" Lewis is the #2 or at worst #3 in all credible ATG lists.

      Jim Driscoll and Freddy Welsh are also ranked higher by all boxing historians than most of the fighters in your poll.

      Some of the fighters in your poll are just ridiculous. Bruno doesn't belong anywhere near the top 10, and nor does Khan at this point.

      My top 10:

      1) Jimmy Wilde
      2) Ted "Kid" Lewis
      3) Bob Fitzsimmonds
      4) Lennox Lewis
      5) Joe Calzaghe
      6) Ken Buchanan
      7) Jim Driscoll
      8) Freddy Welsh
      9) Tommy Farr
      10) Naseem Hamed
      Last edited by Dave Rado; 03-08-2011, 10:27 PM.

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      • McBean
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        #13
        Lol...I wasn't trying to compose a definitive top ten of British fighters. I really was just experimenting with how to post a poll, and it's the first thing that popped into my head. I have to say I've never heard of Ted Kid Lewis or Jimmy Wilde so something productive has come out of this. Thanks for the inadvertent advice guys!

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        • IronDanHamza
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          #14
          Originally posted by McBean
          Lol...I wasn't trying to compose a definitive top ten of British fighters. I really was just experimenting with how to post a poll, and it's the first thing that popped into my head. I have to say I've never heard of Ted Kid Lewis or Jimmy Wilde so something productive has come out of this. Thanks for the inadvertent advice guys!
          Probably the best 2 fighters from the UK.

          They are IMO. Along with Fitzsimmons.

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          • RubenSonny
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            #15
            Originally posted by THe TRiNiTY
            Bob Fitzsimmons. Lightest Heavyweight champion of all time. Beat James J. Corbett for the Heavyweight title when he only weighed 167. Essentially, a Super Middleweight. (Corbett weighed a little less than 190 pounds.

            He also beat Tom Sharkey and Joe Choynski. He beat Choynski so bad, the police had to intervene. He also took the Middleweight championship away from Jack Dempsey. He's also the sports first ever three division champion, with capturing the Middleweight title from Dempsey, Light-Heavyweight championship from George Gardner, and the Heavyweight title from Corbett.

            A real bad ass, too.

            FOUGHT THESE HOFers.
            Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
            James Jeffries
            Tom Sharkey
            Joe Choynski
            Jack Dempsey

            Might not be the best, but he's my favorite.
            He also fought a HOFer and ATG in Jack Johnson.

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            • pacquia0
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              #16
              Out of the modern boxers it has to be Naseem Hamed.

              Then Lewis, Eubank, Benn, Froch and Calzaghe.

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              • Psycho Paul
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                #17
                Originally posted by Dave Rado
                No it isn't.

                Jimmy Wilde is the #1 British boxer of all time in all credible ATG lists, head and shoulders above anyone else.

                Ted "Kid" Lewis is the #2 or at worst #3 in all credible ATG lists.

                Jim Driscoll and Freddy Welsh are also ranked higher by all boxing historians than most of the fighters in your poll.

                Some of the fighters in your poll are just ridiculous. Bruno doesn't belong anywhere near the top 10, and nor does Khan at this point.

                My top 10:

                1) Jimmy Wilde
                2) Ted "Kid" Lewis
                3) Bob Fitzsimmonds
                4) Lennox Lewis
                5) Joe Calzaghe
                6) Ken Buchanan
                7) Jim Driscoll
                8) Freddy Welsh
                9) Tommy Farr
                10) Naseem Hamed
                No Benny Lynch ?.

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                • revs1227
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                  #18
                  calzaghe hatton and lewis if u consider him a britt

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                  • Money Shot
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                    #19
                    On achievements Lewis or Calzage, although Nigel Benn served up some amazing fights that were on regular TV, unlike guys like Hatton! Ken Buchanan, I'd vote for a fellow Scot but I'm too young to remember him.

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                    • wazaa.
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                      #20
                      Amir Khan.

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