Greatest British Heavyweight Champion

[sonnyboyx2]

Frank Bruno, Tyson Fury, Herbie Hide, David Haye, Lennox Lewis.. which order do you rate them?

Bruno
Fury
Hide
Haye
Lewis

[joeandthebums]

Bruno
Fury
Hide
Haye
Lewis

[Tedkidlewis]

1. Lennox Lewis
3 times World heavyweight champion

2. Bob Fitzsimmons
World heavyweight champion
Also held Word titles at middleweight and light heavyweight

3. Tyson Fury
World heavyweight champion

4. David Haye
WBA title holder
Also held World cruiserweight title

5. Frank Bruno
WBC title holder

6. Herbie Hide
2 times WBO title holder

If you choose to include these two, both who are British born:

7. Henry Akinwande
WBO title holder

8. Michael Bentt
WBO title holder

[sonnyboyx2]

My rating of them is:

1/. Fury - Defeated universally accepted World No1 Champion over in Germany.
2/. Lewis - Gifted title via hotly debatable decision, never defended against No1 contenders in poorest era in history 1999-04
3/. Bruno - Unfortunate loser to Lewis in 93, defeated Lewis conquer.
4/. Hide - Had decent undefeated run to 95
5/. Haye

[Elroy1]

Lewis
Haye
Fury
Bruno
Hide

Hide and Bruno could be interchangable

Fury at this point has done less than Haye but might quickly ascend him in the near future.

Lewis seems a far and away lock in here for first place unless Fury becomes something of a "dominant champion".. A very remote possibility at best.

[Elroy1]

My rating of them is:

1/. Fury - Defeated universally accepted World No1 Champion over in Germany.

2/. Lewis - Gifted title via hotly debatable decision, never defended against No1 contenders in poorest era in history 1999-04

3/. Bruno - Unfortunate loser to Lewis in 93, defeated Lewis conquer.
4/. Hide - Had decent undefeated run to 95
5/. Haye

You have GOT to be fu-king joking here!!

What was debatable about that decision?

Lewis smashed all his top contenders!

The LEwis era was demonstratably one of the strongest...

Really, THIS is the type of behaviour one would expect as normal from Bill, Ray, Ned, Kid and all those full blown nut bags..

Your bias against Lewis lowers you to that same cess pool of infection they reside in I am afraid!

[Weltschmerz]

1. Lennox Lewis
3 times World heavyweight champion

2. Bob Fitzsimmons
World heavyweight champion
Also held Word titles at middleweight and light heavyweight

3. Tyson Fury
World heavyweight champion

4. David Haye
WBA title holder
Also held World cruiserweight title

5. Frank Bruno
WBC title holder

6. Herbie Hide
2 times WBO title holder

If you choose to include these two, both who are British born:

7. Henry Akinwande
WBO title holder

8. Michael Bentt
WBO title holder

Good mention.

[Weltschmerz]

Lennox is not only the greatest Brit heavy, he's also one of the GOAT heavies.

[just the facts]

My rating of them is:

1/. Fury - Defeated universally accepted World No1 Champion over in Germany.
2/. Lewis - Gifted title via hotly debatable decision, never defended against No1 contenders in poorest era in history 1999-04
3/. Bruno - Unfortunate loser to Lewis in 93, defeated Lewis conquer.
4/. Hide - Had decent undefeated run to 95
5/. Haye

I'll ask again, do you post for shock value or do you really believe the dumb shyte you post?

The obvious answer: 1. Lewis 2-5. The rest of them

[Elroy1]

I'll ask again, do you post for shock value or do you really believe the dumb shyte you post?

The obvious answer: 1. Lewis 2-5. The rest of them

On this issue I think that REALISTS and NUT BAGS would basically align (for this very narrow and brief cause).

I once met a man who outlined a pretty reasonable case of why Oliver McCall was the greatest fighter ever and LEwis was in his shadow.

I disagree of course but there was a methodology to his view still.

These reasons mentioned for downtreading Lewis are "unsubstantiated" to say the least!