Boxing News: 10 Greatest British Heavies

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/10-greatest-british-heavyweights-time/9/

1. Lennox Lewis
2. Tyson Fury
3. Henry Cooper
4. David Haye
5. Frank Bruno
6. Bob Fitzimmons
7. Tommy Farr
8. Joe Bugner
9. Bruce Woodcock
10. Don Cockell

BN are chucking some odd lists about these days.

IF Fitz is 'British', how do Haye, Fury & Bruno, let alone bloody Cooper, rank ahead of him??!

Populist rubbish.

Well we can agree on the number 1....If you think he's British! I was about to dissect it but not sure where to start. I might raise my eyebrows at fury at 2, after one win albeit a great one. I'd be coughing very loudly with cooper at 3 and be too busy rolling on the floor with laughter by the time I saw fitz at 6.

Odd is the word.

I wanna know what Daniel Herbert (the creator of the list) was smoking at the time of compiling this list and where I can buy it!

This is the sort of WUM list Truss would come up with!

Fitz.... Cooper..... I'll stop before I spit my coffee out

JohnPrescottsJab wrote:I wanna know what Daniel Herbert (the creator of the list) was smoking at the time of compiling this list and where I can buy it!

Herbert once wrote his top ten light heavies without Charles in it. When you consider that this is not that bad.

I was brought up to believe Bruce Woodcock was better than Lennox Lewis, and so I'm very confused.

Rowley wrote:

JohnPrescottsJab wrote:I wanna know what Daniel Herbert (the creator of the list) was smoking at the time of compiling this list and where I can buy it!

Herbert once wrote his top ten light heavies without Charles in it. When you consider that this is not that bad.

He must have been on something even stronger back then!

1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Not much of a list, but excluding somebody from a 'British' list because they're Welsh isn't very bright either, is it?

Oh, and Fury isn't Irish, either. Born, raised, trained and fought in GB - none of the amiguity of Lewis or Fitz.

Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan

Surely Fury would be top?

Not bad having the kingpin in the division for an island of 5 million people.

You lot have never had the lineal champion

TopHat24/7 wrote:Not much of a list, but excluding somebody from a 'British' list because they're Welsh isn't very bright either, is it?

Oh, and Fury isn't Irish, either. Born, raised, trained and fought in GB - none of the amiguity of Lewis or Fitz.

I have given Wales their own place as a separate nation.

Trained - might wanna check that again - oh and won the IRISH title.....

Leaves a very poor list don't you think?

shenglong2015 wrote:

TopHat24/7 wrote:Not much of a list, but excluding somebody from a 'British' list because they're Welsh isn't very bright either, is it?

Oh, and Fury isn't Irish, either. Born, raised, trained and fought in GB - none of the amiguity of Lewis or Fitz.

I have given Wales their own place as a separate nation.

Trained - might wanna check that again - oh and won the IRISH title.....

Leaves a very poor list don't you think?

My apologies
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10. Martin Rogan Tyson Fury

No disagreement re rubbish list.

But didn't Fury compete for Brit ABA's? Just googled it and he did indeed do both. Still doesn't make him anymore Irish than me though - I've grandparents from Ireland also.

LOL re Wales comment.

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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You forgot Kevin McBride.

Roy Jones Jr has more of a claim to be Russian than Fury does Irish.

Farr comes from the same town as me and was most definitely British as well as Welsh. Mental transatlantic accent, mind. No idea where that comes from.

TopHat24/7 wrote:No disagreement re rubbish list.

But didn't Fury compete for Brit ABA's? Just googled it and he did indeed do both. Still doesn't make him anymore Irish than me though - I've grandparents from Ireland also.

LOL re Wales comment.

Then TopHat is Irish as well, and should be on the list!

Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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8. TopHat
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10. Martin Rogan

Dipper Brown wrote:Roy Jones Jr has more of a claim to be Russian than Fury does Irish.

Farr comes from the same town as me and was most definitely British as well as Welsh. Mental transatlantic accent, mind. No idea where that comes from.

Picked that up in the foreign soils of Wales.

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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8.
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10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

Your right!

We are bulding some list!


1. Muhammed Ali
2. Jack Dempsey
3. Kevin McBride
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8. TopHat
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10. Martin Rogan

All Irish Heavys!! Starting to shape up better than the British one.....

shenglong2015 wrote:

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

Your right!

We are bulding some list!


1. Muhammed Ali
2. Jack Dempsey
3. Kevin McBride
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5.
6.
7.
8. TopHat
9.
10. Martin Rogan

All Irish Heavys!! Starting to shape up better than the British one.....

Also add John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan.

shenglong2015 wrote:1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Lewis born in London, moved to Canada when he was 12 but he's Canadian, Tommy Farr Welsh, didn't know Wales had left the UK, just goes to show you learn something knew every day.

Surely where you are born denotes your nationality, Lewis and Fitzimmons were both born in England.How can you put Cooper above Fitzimmons? and Fury above Haye get real.

rapidringsroad wrote:Surely where you are born denotes your nationality, Lewis and Fitzimmons were both born in England.How can you put Cooper above Fitzimmons? and Fury above Haye get real.

As has been said on here before and to paraphrase Wellington - just because a man is born in a stable, it doesn't make him a horse.

That quote does crop up on here, super... and everyone gets it wrong. it was said of Wellington not by him.

Yours pedantically, milky.

superflyweight wrote:

rapidringsroad wrote:Surely where you are born denotes your nationality, Lewis and Fitzimmons were both born in England.How can you put Cooper above Fitzimmons? and Fury above Haye get real.

As has been said on here before and to paraphrase Wellington - just because a man is born in a stable, it doesn't make him a horse.  

If the quote was correct and applied to everyone with foreign DNA, then Nigel Benn, Frank Bruno, Chris Eubank and many others would be just as foreign as Lennox Lewis.

milkyboy wrote:That quote does crop up on here, super... and everyone gets it wrong. it was said of Wellington not by him.

Yours pedantically, milky.

Stop stealing Hammersmith's lines...

hazharrison wrote:

milkyboy wrote:That quote does crop up on here, super... and everyone gets it wrong. it was said of Wellington not by him.

Yours pedantically, milky.

Stop stealing Hammersmith's lines...

I'd never have guessed he was a user, doesn't have the merry disposition, although milky stealing em would probably explain that.

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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2.
3.
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5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

And Mike Perez - Cork's finest

Pedro147 wrote:

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

And Mike Perez - Cork's finest

He's a Geordie!

hazharrison wrote:

Pedro147 wrote:

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

And Mike Perez - Cork's finest

He's a Geordie!

He was fighting out of Cork for years, unless he's since moved to Newcastle?

Pedro147 wrote:

hazharrison wrote:

Pedro147 wrote:

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

And Mike Perez - Cork's finest

He's a Geordie!

He was fighting out of Cork for years, unless he's since moved to Newcastle?

Ha! He started out in Consett under Glenn McCrory. I watched them fight in a leisure centre in a backwater of Newcastle years ago.

ShahenshahG wrote:

hazharrison wrote:

milkyboy wrote:That quote does crop up on here, super... and everyone gets it wrong. it was said of Wellington not by him.

Yours pedantically, milky.

Stop stealing Hammersmith's lines...

I'd never have guessed he was a user, doesn't have the merry disposition, although milky stealing em would probably explain that.

Always thought a line of the white stuff made people manic and full of misguided self confidence and self importance.

I assumed half the site were snorters!

Will we be adding Amir Khan's name to this list soon?

hazharrison wrote:

Pedro147 wrote:

hazharrison wrote:

Pedro147 wrote:

Atila wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Martin Rogan

You forgot Kevin McBride.

And Mike Perez - Cork's finest

He's a Geordie!

He was fighting out of Cork for years, unless he's since moved to Newcastle?

Ha! He started out in Consett under Glenn McCrory. I watched them fight in a leisure centre in a backwater of Newcastle years ago.

I don't care, we're claiming him

No doubt you'll be claiming Amir O'Khan as well

DAVE667 wrote:No doubt you'll be claiming Amir O'Khan as well

Second cousin of our middleweight Eamonn O'Kane

Haha

Inbred filth

DAVE667 wrote:Inbred filth

If you can't keep it in the trousers keep it in the family as they say.

Surely one of the best Irish fighters is Marc O'Antonio-Barrera

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Lewis born in London, moved to Canada when he was 12 but he's Canadian, Tommy Farr Welsh, didn't know Wales had left the UK, just goes to show you learn something knew every day.

* something new everyday.

I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.

Atila wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

rapidringsroad wrote:Surely where you are born denotes your nationality, Lewis and Fitzimmons were both born in England.How can you put Cooper above Fitzimmons? and Fury above Haye get real.

As has been said on here before and to paraphrase Wellington - just because a man is born in a stable, it doesn't make him a horse.  

If the quote was correct and applied to everyone with foreign DNA, then Nigel Benn, Frank Bruno, Chris Eubank and many others would be just as foreign as Lennox Lewis.

Finally someone that gets it.

shenglong2015 wrote:

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Lewis born in London, moved to Canada when he was 12 but he's Canadian, Tommy Farr Welsh, didn't know Wales had left the UK, just goes to show you learn something knew every day.

* something new everyday.

I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.

Yes apologise for the poor grammar, hope I've spelt chip, shoulder, annoying and idiot correctly, always liked the Irish but there's always got to be an exception to the rule I suppose.

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Lewis born in London, moved to Canada when he was 12 but he's Canadian, Tommy Farr Welsh, didn't know Wales had left the UK, just goes to show you learn something knew every day.

* something new everyday.

I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.

Yes apologise for the poor grammar, hope I've spelt chip, shoulder, annoying and idiot correctly, always liked the Irish but there's always got to be an exception to the rule I suppose.

I just like human beings, no particular nationality or creed or race....as none of that matters.

shenglong2015 wrote:

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:

Nico the gman wrote:

shenglong2015 wrote:1. Lennox Lewis - Canadian
2. Tyson Fury - Irish
3. Henry Cooper - Never won a world title
4. David Haye - Fraudster
5. Frank Bruno - Mike Tysons B**ch
6. Bob Fitzimmons - New Zealander
7. Tommy Farr - Welsh
8. Joe Bugner - Hungarian
9. Bruce Woodcock - Never won a world title
10. Don Cockell - Never won a world title & really scrapping the barrel

Not much of a list really.

Lewis born in London, moved to Canada when he was 12 but he's Canadian, Tommy Farr Welsh, didn't know Wales had left the UK, just goes to show you learn something knew every day.

* something new everyday.

I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.

Yes apologise for the poor grammar, hope I've spelt chip, shoulder, annoying and idiot correctly, always liked the Irish but there's always got to be an exception to the rule I suppose.

I just like human beings, no particular nationality or creed or race....as none of that matters.

If you say so.

Strictly speaking, if you go on what's being said above (i.e. "Never won a world title), then Akinwande, Bentt & Hide should be there - they all won the WBO title - in Hide's case, twice. Would I put any of them above Bugner, Woodcock & Cockell? Doubtful...

Dipper Brown wrote:Farr comes from the same town as me and was most definitely British as well as Welsh. Mental transatlantic accent, mind. No idea where that comes from

British??? Wash out your mouth young man. What are you...an Uncle Taff or something???

Anyway, Farr was indeed Welsh although I'm sure a few English and Scots jumped on the bandwagon back then

I was knocking off a girl up there years ago and met her in the pub they got that big painting of Farr in

Funnily she was from the same town as where Jimmy Wilde was from. She could punch harder mind

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan

vvanker

AdamT wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan

vvanker

Poor Martin - justifiably comes in 10th place in a list with one person on it and then has to put up with being called a w**ker.