Comments Thread For: Fes Bautista "Amir Khan is the face of British boxing"

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non-british origin?

who on that list wasnt born here?

ok i listed some irish fighters, so maybe i should have said UK

also what the **** are u talking about,

we are a small country and we produce good boxers, we punch way above our weight

Just looking at the size of a country on its own is misleading

It's obvious a large % of the "British" talent pool come from immigrant families and are only "British" on some legal document. Were you under the impression nobody noticed this clever trick? lol

Same way the US has all these American boxers parents' are from Mexico, without them the US boxing talent pool would take a huge dive

I have a British passport but my ancestry is middle eastern and I currently live in the US... I'd hope if I ever walk on the moon or something they don't make me plant the Union Jack

[D-MiZe]

If you go far enough back, we're all from Africa.

I think if you're born in a country and brought up in it's culture, adopt it's values - you may as well identify with that country.

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If you go far enough back, we're all from Africa.

I think if you're born in a country and brought up in it's culture, adopt it's values - you may as well identify with that country.

That's not what I'm talking about, Khan may consider himself 100% British.

I was specifically addressing how "'it's a small country" is misleading when that small country draws a lot of its sports talent from immigration. The UK probably has one of the larger boxing populations in the world.

A genuinely small talent pool would be Puerto Rico (pop: 4 million, more emigrants than immigrants). They don't have a conveyor belt of "adopted" boxers like the UK.

[D-MiZe]

I was specifically addressing how "'it's a small country" is misleading when that small country draws a lot of its sports talent from immigration.

Not really.

60 million immigrants is still 60 million immigrants compared to other countries. Not to mention the popularity of the sport over here.

UK gets compared to USA and Mexico and for our size and interest, we more than hold our own.

[Wicky]

abroad

when hatton retired khan took his place

no disrespect to froch

hopefully fury is next

Abroad? Where exactly?

[Wicky]

It's hard to use the size of the country as an excuse when half of your top fighters are obviously of recent non-British origin anyway.

And I would say it's "mainstream" by most standards -- you have a dedicated boxing channel and Froch-Groves filled 80,000 seats?

However Khan is not the best British fighter so it's all moot. He is OK, receives disproportionate attention for his superficial speed, training with Manny/Roach, and being in the diva division.

Non-Britsh? The US is a country of immigrants. What's your point?

[D-MiZe]

A genuinely small talent pool would be Puerto Rico (pop: 4 million, more emigrants than immigrants). They don't have a conveyor belt of "adopted" boxers like the UK.

The problem is surnames.

You have someone called 'Khan' and you know that isn't a British surname, it's Middle Eastern. So it's easier to identify their heritage. Go look at a list of British surnames and every famous athlete will now be ours.

LeBron James is an adopted Englishman.
Tiger Woods is an adopted Englishman.
Kobe Bryant is an adopted Englishman.
Floyd Mayweather is an adopted Englishman.


I mean, I could keep going... but it's clear we run shit.

[FrankieBruno]

Just looking at the size of a country on its own is misleading

It's obvious a large % of the "British" talent pool come from immigrant families and are only "British" on some legal document. Were you under the impression nobody noticed this clever trick? lol

Same way the US has all these American boxers parents' are from Mexico, without them the US boxing talent pool would take a huge dive

I have a British passport but my ancestry is middle eastern and I currently live in the US... I'd hope if I ever walk on the moon or something they don't make me plant the Union Jack

If Khan was born in Pakistan he wouldnt be a boxer..So ur argument is ******

Khan was born in Britain and picked up boxing here, he's a product of British boxing

Froch is part Polish, so i guess that means we dont have any true BRITISH fighters by ur logic

Brook, oh his mums from Jamaica, cross him off as well

Haye cross him off as well

[MrRolltide91]

froch>>>>>>khan

[arraamis]

Agreed!!!!!

Anyone else is just a pretender.