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I think he can also,Hes done pretty good stuff so far.
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The pre fight press conference was just a bad as the post fight conference, Khan and his team are a load of clowns, sham on ricky Hatton and de la hoya, Hatton in the pre press con, Oscar in the post press con, it was nauseating watching these two praising Khan, Why do they have to keep trying to sell Khan to the British fans?Comment
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Actually the Greatest British Fighter of the Twentieth was once KO'd in the first Rd..........
Was hit on a break at the end of rd.1 for the EBU Heavyweight title weighing at about 155, giving away about 25 lbs. etc.
This was against Georges Carpentier the Light heavyweight World Champion who fought Jack Dempsey for the Heavyweight Crown. And he was only a welterweight.
His name was Ted "Kid" Lewis, voted by press and boxing experts, as the greatest British Boxer of the Twentieth Century. He fought everybody, including Benny Leonard, and had about 300 fights.Comment
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Lennox was the best UK fighter....and he claimed Jamaica and fought for Canada in the olympics. 2nd best was Joe Cal....but that isnt sayin much....his greatest accomplishment was barely beating a way past prime Bernard and Roy.(oh yea...going undefeated against a bunch of bums in his back yard no one outside the UK has heard of) 3rd maybe Hammed....but he got expsoed once he fought the best at his time(Marco)....the rest are pretty mediocre and overrated...Ben,Eubanks,Harold....all beat inferior comp at home....stepped outs side of the island a few times...and made huge deals over pretty regular stuffComment
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Lewis.. Hamed.. Is all I know who is great from there.Comment
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And what about Jimmy Wilde, and Jackie Kid Berg. Not to mention Turpin who beat Sugar Ray Robinson. And I've already posted in about Ted "KId" Lewis who in the opinion of hundreds of experts was the greatest British fighter of the Twentieth Century, had 300 fights...
His acomplishments swamp anything that Lewis and Hamed have done. Turned pro at 15. was a World Champ before age 21. Fought Jack Britton for the World welterweight title 20 times TWENTY TIMES. Fought Benny Leonard and Maxie Rosenbloom, and many All time Greats and Hall of Famers. His record is a travelogue of the world's best and most renowned fighters over a 20 year period.
What sort of a guy, long past his best, would be fighting the World Lightheavyweight Champ, for the EBU HEAVYWEIGHT title, weighing in at only 150 lbs..........
Only a ONE OF A KIND GUY.Comment
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Khan can be the greatest British boxer ever??? De la Hoy must be dreaming. The greatest British boxer ever ok just don't give him the name Prescott or you'll scare him to death.Comment
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Maybe not in 58 seconds, but Lennox Lewis got knocked out by a lesser fighter, and isn't he considered the best british boxer of all time?
I am only basing that off of something I read about Joe Calzaghe when he admitted he was taking coke, he did it after he found out that he was voted second place to Lennox Lewis... I don't know if this was all time or just recently, or whether or not it was done by boxing historians or just fans, but thats what I rememberComment
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If Khan can clean out his division, than clean out 147's Andre Berto, Mike Jones, Victor Ortiz, etc, and maybe even clean out 154, which is another deep division (and it would really be something if he could actually do it), than he certainly has a claim in my opinion (bar in mind I'm not an expert on british boxing history forgive me if I sound ridiculous)Comment
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