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Ken Buchanan (WBC/WBA lightweight champ, a close fight with Roberto Duran at Duran's absolute peak)
Jim Watt (WBC lightweight champ)
John H Stracy (WBC welterweight champ)
John Conteh (WBC light-heavyweight champ)
Charlie Magri (WBC flyweight champ)
Alan Minter (WBC/WBA middleweight champ, southpaw who cut easily)
Kirkland Laing (won 1982 Ring Magazine Upset of the Year by beating the great Roberto Duran)
Herol 'Bomber' Graham (British and European champ at both light-middleweight and middleweight, made Mike McCallum and Julian Jackson look like novices in WBA and WBC title shots late on in his career, a low-handed, switch-hitting defensive boxer who was avoided like the plague by Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran)
Colin Jones (European and Commonwealth welterweight champ, a pair of close fights with Milton McCrory for the WBC welterweight title)
Lloyd Honeyghan (WBC/WBA/IBF welterweight champ, won 1985 Ring Magazine Upset of the Year by beating the #1 lb4lb ranked Donald Curry)
Barry McGuigan (The Clones Cyclone was an Irishman with a Mexican style who defeated top three lb4lb rated Eusebio Pedroza in Pedroza's 20th defence of the WBA featherweight title, that was Ring Magazine's 1986 Upset of the Year and McGuigan was also involved in Ring Magazine's 1987 Fight of the Year, an intense pressure fighter)
Dennis Andries (three-time WBC light-heavyweight champ)
Terry Marsh (undefeated IBF light-welterweight champ)
Duke McKenzie (world champion at three different weights)
Dave McAuley (IBF flyweight champ)
Nigel Benn (The Dark Destroyer was the most exciting fighter in the world, frightening power in both hands and love of a "tear-up" meant that he was a British fans favourite, he KTFO his first 22 opponents - picking up the Commonwealth middleweight title along the way, he conquered America and was WBO middleweight champ and later WBC super-middleweight champ, he had a super-famous rivalry in Britain with Chris Eubank, won arguably the best fight of all-time against Gerald McClellan)
Chris Eubank (brash upstart who considered himself an intellectual and burst onto the scene when defeating Hugo Corti for the WBC International middleweight title, Corti had knocked out former WBC/WBA middleweight champ Hugo Corro, Eubank was a complete one-off, the man they loved to hate due to his arrogance and posturing and a very unique character indeed, WBO champion at both middleweight and super-middleweight who reeled off 15 defences of his super-middleweight title)
Michael Watson (Commonwealth middleweight champ after he rather famously rope-a-doped Nigel Benn with a counter-punching clinic, robbed in the first Eubank fight and clearly winning the second Eubank fight before tragedy)
Naseem Hamed (former European bantumweight champ and WBC International super-bantumweight champ who went crazy on the featherweight division - Steve Robinson-WBO, Tom Johnson-IBF, Wilfredo Vasquez-WBA, Cesar Soto-WBC, Kevin Kelley-WBU, Manuel Calvo-IBO, arguably lb4lb the best puncher in the world)
Steve Collins (got in there with a prime Mike McCallum after just 16 fights, robbed in the backyards of Reggie Johnson and Sumbu Kalambay, The Celtic Warrior finally found fame and fortune when fooling Chris Eubank and the world into believing he was hypnotised and could withstand inhuman ammounts of pain - this freaked out Eubank who was mentally fragile following Watson tragedy)
Frank Bruno (first man to rock Mike Tyson, first man to rock Lennox Lewis, finally achieved his dream by out-pointing Oliver McCall for the WBC heavyweight title)
Lennox Lewis (Canadian who beat every man he shared a ring with, WBC/WBA/IBF heavyweight champ)
Joe Calzaghe (spectacularly defeated former champ Chris Eubank for the WBO super-middleweight title in 1997, hasn't lost since)
Ricky Hatton (his dreams came true in 2005 when he defeated the best 140lber of all-time - Kostya Tszyu, undefeated IBF/WBA light-welterweight champ who is looking to conquer America)
Jim Watt (WBC lightweight champ)
John H Stracy (WBC welterweight champ)
John Conteh (WBC light-heavyweight champ)
Charlie Magri (WBC flyweight champ)
Alan Minter (WBC/WBA middleweight champ, southpaw who cut easily)
Kirkland Laing (won 1982 Ring Magazine Upset of the Year by beating the great Roberto Duran)
Herol 'Bomber' Graham (British and European champ at both light-middleweight and middleweight, made Mike McCallum and Julian Jackson look like novices in WBA and WBC title shots late on in his career, a low-handed, switch-hitting defensive boxer who was avoided like the plague by Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran)
Colin Jones (European and Commonwealth welterweight champ, a pair of close fights with Milton McCrory for the WBC welterweight title)
Lloyd Honeyghan (WBC/WBA/IBF welterweight champ, won 1985 Ring Magazine Upset of the Year by beating the #1 lb4lb ranked Donald Curry)
Barry McGuigan (The Clones Cyclone was an Irishman with a Mexican style who defeated top three lb4lb rated Eusebio Pedroza in Pedroza's 20th defence of the WBA featherweight title, that was Ring Magazine's 1986 Upset of the Year and McGuigan was also involved in Ring Magazine's 1987 Fight of the Year, an intense pressure fighter)
Dennis Andries (three-time WBC light-heavyweight champ)
Terry Marsh (undefeated IBF light-welterweight champ)
Duke McKenzie (world champion at three different weights)
Dave McAuley (IBF flyweight champ)
Nigel Benn (The Dark Destroyer was the most exciting fighter in the world, frightening power in both hands and love of a "tear-up" meant that he was a British fans favourite, he KTFO his first 22 opponents - picking up the Commonwealth middleweight title along the way, he conquered America and was WBO middleweight champ and later WBC super-middleweight champ, he had a super-famous rivalry in Britain with Chris Eubank, won arguably the best fight of all-time against Gerald McClellan)
Chris Eubank (brash upstart who considered himself an intellectual and burst onto the scene when defeating Hugo Corti for the WBC International middleweight title, Corti had knocked out former WBC/WBA middleweight champ Hugo Corro, Eubank was a complete one-off, the man they loved to hate due to his arrogance and posturing and a very unique character indeed, WBO champion at both middleweight and super-middleweight who reeled off 15 defences of his super-middleweight title)
Michael Watson (Commonwealth middleweight champ after he rather famously rope-a-doped Nigel Benn with a counter-punching clinic, robbed in the first Eubank fight and clearly winning the second Eubank fight before tragedy)
Naseem Hamed (former European bantumweight champ and WBC International super-bantumweight champ who went crazy on the featherweight division - Steve Robinson-WBO, Tom Johnson-IBF, Wilfredo Vasquez-WBA, Cesar Soto-WBC, Kevin Kelley-WBU, Manuel Calvo-IBO, arguably lb4lb the best puncher in the world)
Steve Collins (got in there with a prime Mike McCallum after just 16 fights, robbed in the backyards of Reggie Johnson and Sumbu Kalambay, The Celtic Warrior finally found fame and fortune when fooling Chris Eubank and the world into believing he was hypnotised and could withstand inhuman ammounts of pain - this freaked out Eubank who was mentally fragile following Watson tragedy)
Frank Bruno (first man to rock Mike Tyson, first man to rock Lennox Lewis, finally achieved his dream by out-pointing Oliver McCall for the WBC heavyweight title)
Lennox Lewis (Canadian who beat every man he shared a ring with, WBC/WBA/IBF heavyweight champ)
Joe Calzaghe (spectacularly defeated former champ Chris Eubank for the WBO super-middleweight title in 1997, hasn't lost since)
Ricky Hatton (his dreams came true in 2005 when he defeated the best 140lber of all-time - Kostya Tszyu, undefeated IBF/WBA light-welterweight champ who is looking to conquer America)
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