Why are British fighters so hyped up?

[D4thincarnation]

British Champs over the last 5 years.

Alex Arthur
Ricky Burns
Joe Calzaghe
Nathan Cleverly
Enzo Maccarinelli
Gavin Rees
Carl Froch
Ricky Hatton
David Haye
Amir Khan

So with a population of 60 million Britain has produced 10 world champions in the last 5 years.

America has 5 times the population, so have they produced 50 world champions in the last 5 years?

[Legendary Hater]

British Champs over the last 5 years.

Alex Arthur
Ricky Burns
Joe Calzaghe
Nathan Cleverly
Enzo Maccarinelli
Gavin Rees
Carl Froch
Ricky Hatton
David Haye
Amir Khan

So with a population of 60 million Britain has produced 10 world champions in the last 5 years.

America has 5 times the population, so have they produced 50 world champions in the last 5 years?

Big time "World" Champions, eh?...lol

You're a fool.

Now ask yourself this...how many credible, CONSENSUS Top 20 P4Pers have you had in the last 20 years?...and how many do you have today?

Then ask yourself how many America has had in that time frame...and how many they have today...and THEN, how many for each after Ward defeats Froch...

You're FOOKED, and you're on The List.

[chav]

We have world class media in every format available everywhere in the world.We are only guilty of marketing what we have, if all the other countries had the same tv, satellite, newspaper, magazine, online etc media their fighters would be getting the same "hype" on the world scene

For a small country we compete at world level at most things. p4p we are up there in most things regardless of the "hype"

[D4thincarnation]

Big time "World" Champions, eh?...lol

You're a fool.

Now ask yourself this...how many credible, CONSENSUS Top 20 P4Pers have you had in the last 20 years?...and how many do you have today?

Then ask yourself how many America has had in that time frame...and how many they have today...and THEN, how many for each after Ward defeats Froch...

You're FOOKED, and you're on The List.

p4p is subjective.

A world championship is something real.

I haven't done the count but I'm betting America has not had 50 world champs in the last 5 years.

[PrinceNaz88]

We see it every few years, a British boxer builds up a long undefeated record against either poor opponents or opponents past their best and then they usually get exposed once they fight a good or world class opponent,

Just thinking about guys like Hamed, Hatton & Khan.

You have picked 3 pretty poor examples to be honest.

If you had gone for someone like John Murray then maybe you would be talking at least a little bit of sense.

Hatton lost to the 2 best fighters on the planet who were both in their prime. He gave Mayweather trouble early on but the ref didn't let him fight. He then wasn't the same for the Pac fight. He is in general an underrated fighter.

Hamed made 15 World title defences before losing to an ATG. Had ferocious power, good chin and was very elusive. He didn't have the love for the sport when he fought Barrera. Would he have beaten him in his prime? Maybe, maybe not but he would have given him a lot more problems for sure.

Khan has beaten some top fighters already as well as doing enough to beat Peterson. He won't give Peterson a chance in the rematch.

[Miburo]

Hatton is borderline. Froch, Lewis, Calzaghe all deserve respect (and I'm not really a fan of any of them, especially the latter).

[heat27]

Khan is a hype good
Froch is a good fighter and he got my respect

[Chunk..]

The only person that hypes up Kell Brook is Kell Brook.

Too early to write Khan off.

[The MiZ]

i remember when Calzaghe beat the living crap out of Lacy, **** was classic

[D4thincarnation]

i remember when Calzaghe beat the living crap out of Lacy, **** was classic

Was that Jeff "The Mini Tyson" Lacy?