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   Rel

   August 29, 2009 at 12:03 pm

   How come John H Stracey isn’t in list!!

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   cm

   August 31, 2009 at 2:23 am

   Good point Rel, if anybody else would like to vote for Stracey, please reply to the post

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   Anonymous

   September 24, 2009 at 6:22 am

   I agree Stracey should be on the list. Jack ‘Kid’ Berg, Freddie Welsh, Jim Driscoll, Benny Lynch and Owen Moran are all better than most of the guys on that list as well.

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   Anonymous

   September 25, 2011 at 9:41 am

   I second Stracey,Driscoll and Berg,also submit for consideration-Len Harvey,Jock Mcavoy and Terry Allen!

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   BritishBoxers.co.uk

   September 25, 2011 at 1:09 pm

   All your considerations are taken into account and added to the list. Thankyou for your input and wise judgements on this interesting question and debate, of whi is the Best British Boxer of all Time. BritishBoxers

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   Anonymous

   September 27, 2011 at 5:45 am

   Lennox was poleaxed by two mediocre jouneymen and was fortunate to get the decision over an old Holyfield, his victory over Mike Tyson was against a shell of the once all time great. Lennox is a Canadian who has lived in Canada for the last 35yrs and is inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame.

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   Anonymous

   November 29, 2011 at 2:02 pm

   i agree with Rel – Stracey should be on there,

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8. 

   Ellis

   May 8, 2013 at 2:19 pm

   Amir Kahn is on there, but the unbeaten Tyson Fury isn’t. Fury should be mentioned.

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9. 

   Happytravelling

   May 11, 2013 at 6:41 pm

   Always a tricky call. Its hard to judge boxers pre 60′s-70′s as relatively few fights were recorded but, I can’t help getting nostalgic for fighters from the turn of the century through to the 30′s as their careers were so long, tough and unpredictable. I can’t help having admiration for the boxers of that era but for me, of that era, Berg, Wilde and Lewis stand out but I wouldn’t begrudge Moran. Fitz deserves all the credit he gets for his achievements and should be, debatably, number one.

   Wilde’s staggering KO record of 98 from 132 wins are worth a mention as they often put him in most educated observer’s top punchers list of all time which, for a FLYWEIGHT, is stunning.

   Comparing “modern” (post WWII) fighters becomes harder because they fought less and, typically, a “higher quality” opponents.

   For me, Lynch and Winston don’t quite make it at the very top but deserve mention somewhere in the top 10-20.

   For great wins you have to have Stracey, Turpin, Honey and Benn and for pure talent Conteh, Hamed, Lewis and Calzaghe.

   But I have problems placing Charnley etc as I have seen so little of them.

   But, I would have the old timers:

   1. Fitz
   2. Lewis
   3. Wilde
   4. Berg
   5. Moran
   6. Turpin (?) just because he beat the greatest and anybody who does that deserves to be on an all time list!

   And the modern fighters:
   1. Stracey (Biased as I have great admiration for what he did in Mexico city)
   2.Calzaghe
   3.Lewis
   4. Hamed (just because I think he’s the most naturally talented fighter I have ever seen, even if he was a pr*ck)
   5. Benn (because I thought he was the most entertaining fighter of my generation and won some absolutely barn storming fights!)

   I respect everybody elses opinions on this as these were all great men and I wouldn’t like to match eras, but those are my choices.

   P.S we haven’t mentioned Colin Jones who was a great fighter and Tony Sibson who were just unlucky to come up against Sugar Ray Leonard, who IMO is disturbingly underrated in most lists as he is one of the most “complete” fighters I ever saw.

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     britishboxers

     May 26, 2013 at 6:44 pm

     Enjoyed reading that Happytravelling you make great points there and your choices are certainly there or there abouts and you put your point across very well

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