Best British boxer?

[Dave Rado]

No Benny Lynch ?.

You're right, I should have put him in. I guess that means Hamed doesn't make it because I don't think anyone ahead of him in my list deserves to move down below Hamed.

[Dave Rado]

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!

For info on Jimmy Wilde and Benny Lynch, see here.

For info on Ted "Kid" Lewis, see here.

[goblin213]

Ted Kid Lewis, hands down.

[Dave Rado]

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.

Do you think boxing was invented in 1970? None of those boxers even come close to the achievements of Jimmy Wilde or Ted Lewis or even Fitzsimmons. And the greatest Scottish boxer of all all time was probably Benny Lynch rather than Buchanan, although there are arguments in favour of both.

[Dave Rado]

Ted Kid Lewis, hands down.

How can you put him higher than Jimmy Wilde?

[lefthook2daliva]

Gotta' go w/LL. He really might be in the top 5 all time HWs.