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Boxing News: 10 Greatest British Heavies
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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.
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.
hazharrison- Posts : 7540
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IF Fitz is 'British', how do Haye, Fury & Bruno, let alone bloody Cooper, rank ahead of him??!
Populist rubbish.
Populist rubbish.
TopHat24/7- Posts : 17008
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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.
Odd is the word.
milkyboy- Posts : 7762
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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!
JohnPrescottsJab- Posts : 49
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This is the sort of WUM list Truss would come up with!
Fitz.... Cooper..... I'll stop before I spit my coffee out
Fitz.... Cooper..... I'll stop before I spit my coffee out
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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.
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I was brought up to believe Bruce Woodcock was better than Lennox Lewis, and so I'm very confused.
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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!
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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.
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.
shenglong2015- Posts : 513
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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.
Oh, and Fury isn't Irish, either. Born, raised, trained and fought in GB - none of the amiguity of Lewis or Fitz.
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Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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.
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You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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Atila- Posts : 1711
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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.
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.
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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
1.Tyson Fury
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8. TopHat
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10. Martin Rogan
shenglong2015- Posts : 513
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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.
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Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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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.....
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Also add John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan.shenglong2015 wrote:Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan
Your right!
We are bulding some list!
1. Muhammed Ali
2. Jack Dempsey
3. Kevin McBride
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8. TopHat
9.
10. Martin Rogan
All Irish Heavys!! Starting to shape up better than the British one.....
Atila- Posts : 1711
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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.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.
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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.
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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.
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That quote does crop up on here, super... and everyone gets it wrong. it was said of Wellington not by him.
Yours pedantically, milky.
Yours pedantically, milky.
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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.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.
Atila- Posts : 1711
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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...
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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.
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Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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And Mike Perez - Cork's finest
Pedro147- Posts : 885
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Pedro147 wrote:Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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And Mike Perez - Cork's finest
He's a Geordie!
hazharrison- Posts : 7540
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hazharrison wrote:Pedro147 wrote:Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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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- Posts : 885
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Pedro147 wrote:hazharrison wrote:Pedro147 wrote:Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan
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.
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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!
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Will we be adding Amir Khan's name to this list soon?
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hazharrison wrote:Pedro147 wrote:hazharrison wrote:Pedro147 wrote:Atila wrote:You forgot Kevin McBride.DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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10. Martin Rogan
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
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No doubt you'll be claiming Amir O'Khan as well
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DAVE667 wrote:No doubt you'll be claiming Amir O'Khan as well
Second cousin of our middleweight Eamonn O'Kane
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DAVE667 wrote:Inbred filth
If you can't keep it in the trousers keep it in the family as they say.
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Surely one of the best Irish fighters is Marc O'Antonio-Barrera
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Nico the gman wrote: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.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.
* something new everyday.
I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.
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Atila wrote: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.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.
Finally someone that gets it.
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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.shenglong2015 wrote:Nico the gman wrote: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.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.
* something new everyday.
I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.
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Nico the gman wrote: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.shenglong2015 wrote:Nico the gman wrote: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.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.
* something new everyday.
I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.
I just like human beings, no particular nationality or creed or race....as none of that matters.
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If you say so.shenglong2015 wrote:Nico the gman wrote: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.shenglong2015 wrote:Nico the gman wrote: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.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.
* something new everyday.
I waited until today to correct you, in keeping with the theme.
I just like human beings, no particular nationality or creed or race....as none of that matters.
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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...
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British??? Wash out your mouth young man. What are you...an Uncle Taff or something???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
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
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DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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AdamT wrote:DAVE667 wrote:Ireland's ten greatest boxers
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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.
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