British School of Boxing Lagging Behind the Americas

[BoxingIsGreat]

So if I move to China and take up ping pong tomorrow i'll become Chinese?

In that case, Lennox is a Jamaican.

[Vinnykin]

Fair enough, I mean we really ain't a small country in terms of population even if we ain't one of your real big 100 mil+ nations.

Britain is a small country, when I can get on a train at 9pm in Aberdeen and wake up at 7am in London.......

England is overcrowded and overpopulated...... look at it on google maps...... not a lot of green there and not enough houses for 55 million people...... most of it is getting flooded nearly every year now.

Scotland is nearly the same size and has 4.5 million people....... everything is better up here, the water and air is clean just for a start

[Robbie Barrett]

In that case, Lennox is a Jamaican.

US is a country of immigrants guess none of their fighters were American then if being born in a country doesn't make them from there.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Brits rule a heavyweight division, Josh Taylor rules 140 division still.

But you are right, guys like Froch, Calzaghe, Nigel Benn...are not around anymore.

[Citizen Koba]

Britain is a small country, when I can get on a train at 9pm in Aberdeen and wake up at 7am in London.......

England is overcrowded and overpopulated...... look at it on google maps...... not a lot of green there and not enough houses for 55 million people...... most of it is getting flooded nearly every year now.

Scotland is nearly the same size and has 4.5 million people....... everything is better up here, the water and air is clean just for a start

Yeah you ain't wrong there, man, I mean I'm lucky enough to live on the edge of the Peak District here so I got some good countryside on my doorstep pretty much, but I meant in terms of population rather than physical area. In terms of population density the UK is only behind some of the countries of South and East Asia in terms of density... ****ladesh, Vietnam, Japan, India (that one surprised me cos India's effing huge but it's just got that many people)... and I think East Asian peoples may be better culturally adapted to get on with each other in large concentrations.

Believe me though I've given considerable thought to moving either to Scotland or Wales, only thing is my Greek genes ain't too keen on the cold.

[TMLT87]

In that case, Lennox is a Jamaican.

In that case there are literally no decent American fighters, ever. Or Canadian. There would also be no such thing as a Jamaican either.

What I said and what you said arent comparable anyway. I'm not talking about race, i'm talking about someone being born and raised in one country then leaving at an advanced age. Spending the first 12 years of your life makes you that nationality, you will have had most of your formative experiences there and will have already developed an accent etc. At that point you are an immigrant wherever else you go. If its younger than that when you leave, like 5 or whatever, thats different . But Lennox was secondary school age when he left the UK for ****s sake.

Its like I said earlier, the people that dont want Lennox to be British would be arguing the other way if he'd been born and raised in Canada until he was 12 then left for the UK. They just dont want the UK to claim him because hes arguably better than any American HW ever.

[Vinnykin]

Yeah you ain't wrong there, man, I mean I'm lucky enough to live on the edge of the Peak District here so I got some good countryside on my doorstep pretty much, but I meant in terms of population rather than physical area. In terms of population density the UK is only behind some of the countries of South and East Asia in terms of density... ****ladesh, Vietnam, Japan, India (that one surprised me cos India's effing huge but it's just got that many people)... and I think East Asian peoples may be better culturally adapted to get on with each other in large concentrations.

Believe me though I've given considerable thought to moving either to Scotland or Wales, only thing is my Greek genes ain't too keen on the cold.

I've been down the Peak District once for a weekend, beautiful area....... but most people in England do not live next to or within a national park........ The major cities and clusters are the problem. But you're right, when comparing it to places in Asia, it's not that bad.

In Aberdeenshire it's no where near the population of even Glasgow or Edinburgh...... but when you go to Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London etc I literally become a fish out of water...... it's noisy, the air is polluted, traffic is terrible, poverty everywhere, queues everywhere.

And yeah, if you got Greek in you don't come to Scotland, I have to take vitamin D supplements as I get none from the sun for 6 months every year...... but I'm a semi-ginger, pale Celt, and used to it.

[TMLT87]

Scotland is nearly the same size and has 4.5 million people....... everything is better up here, the water and air is clean just for a start

Why do all your homeless pissheads come down here to beg on the street though?

[Vinnykin]

Why do all your homeless pissheads come down here to beg on the street though?

In Scotland, we help the homeless, and house them.

The majority of homeless in England are English, and you should help them, instead of looking down on them like you obviously do.

[TMLT87]

In Scotland, we help the homeless, and house them.

The majority of homeless in England are English, and you should help them, instead of looking down on them like you obviously do.

Apparently you send them down to England, considering like 80% of tramps where I live seem to be Scottish. I wonder how Scottish pissheads end up wandering down hundreds of miles into English cities when its supposedly such a utopia up there?


You've obviously got little wee Scotsman syndrome though. Which is why you somehow managed to interject ****ing Scotlands "superiority" to England into a thread about British boxing. Obsessed.