Elite British Prospects - Better Than America?

[Xanxicar]

Frankie gavin will also be a pretty good prospect once he turns pro. I think hes more talented than kevin mitchell.

[oldgringo]

I've been putting his name on here about a year ago before anybody really knew him.Dawson is big,powerful,fast and has good technical skills.The only thing i don't like is what his team is doing and that is moving him up to light heavyweight.

I had heard his name dropped a few times back in the day but never took time to see what he was all about. Same with Lucien Bute.

The only thing I need to see from Dawson is how he handles adversity. I've gotten to see how a guy like Cotto deals with trouble...I know this sounds wierd, but I want to see Dawson get hit by a big punch to see if he can take it. Kid looks like a beast though.

Whats this about moving to 175 now?

[psychopath]

I know amateur boxing 'doesnt mean ****' on this board, and I'm not trying to start any UK vs US **** either.

But there are a bunch of Limey boxing prospects right now, from Elite backgrounds, that I'd just like to bring to your attention..

Amir Khan - 2003 International Junior Olympic gold medalist, 2004 Olympic Games silver medalist (losing only to the best lb4lb amateur of the last 10 years, and later avenging the defeat in both of their last ever amateur bouts!)

John O'Donnell - 2003 International Junior Olympic gold medalist

Kevin Mitchell - 2001 International Junior Olympic silver medalist, youngest ever winner of senior ABA title

David Haye - 2001 Senior World Championship silver medalist

Carl Froch - 2001 Senior World Championship bronze medalist (first British boxer to ever win a medal at senior world championships) - floored his Russian semi-final opponent in 30 seconds (his opponent went on to win the gold medal), knocked out Rubin Williams in 30 seconds at the England vs USA match

Roman Greenberg - 2000 Junior World Championship silver medalist, Angelo Dundee claims he has the fastest hands of any heavyweight since Muhammad Ali

Ricky Hatton - 1996 Junior World Championship bronze medalist (his semi-final loss to the Russian that went on to win the gold medal is considered to be the worst robbery in amateur boxing of the last 10 years)

Joe Calzaghe - 1990 Junior European Championship robbery and it was reported to of made Roy Jones Jr's loss to Park Si-Hun look fair by comparison (the Eastern European he was robbed against in Eastern Europe went to win the gold medal and then won the world championships the following year), won three senior ABA titles at three different weights


These cats all want to hit the States!

Damn you're right they all want to hit the states because it is here where fighters get the real recognition and the best competition.

[JuicyJuice]

Yeah, they all dream of hitting the States eventually - as all British fighters do, unlike European fighters.

Unfortunately, very few British fighters are good enough to go to America and be competitive (or financially well off enough to leave their country and have their fights abroad).

Nigel Benn was one guy who made it clear before he turned pro that America was his destination, because he thought that the American's would love his aggressive style. When he did eventually get to America though, he was treated like filth so came back home.

[trinidadpr87]

I had heard his name dropped a few times back in the day but never took time to see what he was all about. Same with Lucien Bute.

The only thing I need to see from Dawson is how he handles adversity. I've gotten to see how a guy like Cotto deals with trouble...I know this sounds wierd, but I want to see Dawson get hit by a big punch to see if he can take it. Kid looks like a beast though.

Whats this about moving to 175 now?

I heard that Gary Shaw is moving him up to 175 to fight on some undercard and possibly fighting the winner of Tarver vs Hopkins.

[JuicyJuice]

If this Dawson guy is better than Froch, Khan etc then he must be pretty damn good.

[trinidadpr87]

If this Dawson guy is better than Froch, Khan etc then he must be pretty damn good.

He'll beat Froch's ass easily.Khan, the guy has 5 fights we will see when he steps up the competition.