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greatest brittish boxer of all time
got thinking of this other day after the sad death of muhamed ali who was generally thought of as the best boxer of all time, i think in britain in my lifetime it has to be lennox lewis
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I'd say Lennox Lewis too.
Honourable mention for Scotland's very own Ken Buchanan and Benny Lynch.
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Probably Lewis for me too. Is he actually British though???
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Probably Lewis for me too. Is he actually British though???
Represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and of course the Olympics in Seoul.
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Probably Lewis for me too. Is he actually British though???
Represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and of course the Olympics in Seoul.
Preference depends on the individual view. When Walter MacGowan became world champion BBC commentator Harry Carpenter named him a great British boxer. When the title was lost a year later Harry called him a "gallant little Scot".....
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I also enjoyed watching (and rooted for) the following.
Chris Eubank
Nigel Benn
Frank Bruno
Ricky Hatton
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Probably Lewis for me too. Is he actually British though???
Represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and of course the Olympics in Seoul.Preference depends on the individual view. When Walter MacGowan became world champion BBC commentator Harry Carpenter named him a great British boxer. When the title was lost a year later Harry called him a "gallant little Scot".....
Saw Walter McGowan do a couple of exhibition bouts in Grangemouth at the tail end of his career, got his autograph and that of Joe Gans (Father) ....which is how Joe Gans signed his name. Since watching him when (I was) young, he was always a favourite boxer of mine. I actually took up boxing for a time at a boys' club, basically because I looked a bit skinny and weak. As I recall, at that time, you fought on age rather than weight/physique, which I believe is the case now for young boxers. So I took some batterings from bigger lads.
Sadly, Walter McGowan passed on just a couple of months ago.
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I also enjoyed watching (and rooted for) the following.
Chris Eubank
Nigel Benn
Frank Bruno
Ricky Hatton
loved watching nigel benn fight when boxing was on stv through the 90s before sky got envolved his fights against eubank and collins were brutal but exciting i also remember his fight against gerald mclellan who sadly was badly brain damaged because of the fight it was the most brutal fight i have ever saw
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That Benn-McLelland fight was probably the best and yes,most brutal fight I've ever watched.
Both guys were killers.
Very sad what happened to McLelland who was a terrific prospect at the time.
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That Benn-McLelland fight was probably the best and yes,most brutal fight I've ever watched.
Both guys were killers.
Very sad what happened to McLelland who was a terrific prospect at the time.
i remember nigel benn recently say in an interview mclellan hit him so hard in the first round he burst his eardrum and he couldnt even see straight either due to the sheer power in his punches how benn went on after first few rounds when mclellan was destroying him was incredible
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That Benn-McLelland fight was probably the best and yes,most brutal fight I've ever watched.
Both guys were killers.
Very sad what happened to McLelland who was a terrific prospect at the time.i remember nigel benn recently say in an interview mclellan hit him so hard in the first round he burst his eardrum and he couldnt even see straight either due to the sheer power in his punches how benn went on after first few rounds when mclellan was destroying him was incredible
Yeah McLelland battered him in that first round. Knocked him through the ropes iirc.
My other abiding memory is big Frank Bruno doing his dinger in at ringside.
Was an incredible (but ultimately tragic) spectacle.
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But do any of the above have a Sports Centre named after them?
610 wins in 634 fechts is a 96% win ratio if my maths are right!