Best British Boxer Of All Time?

[D-MiZe]

In your opinion, who is the best British boxer of all time?

For me it was Lennox Lewis.

[Hatton_Is_God]

Audley by a mile

[The_Golden_Boi]

Lewis i think wins this!

[alza1988]

I was just looking at the boxrec all time p4p rankings .
Here's the British boxers in order on boxrec
1. 50th . Joe Calzaghe
2. 55th . Naseem Hamed
3. 62th . Lennox Lewis
4. 74th . Bob Fitzsimmons
5. 76th . Ted Kid Lewis
6. 77th . Jackie Paterson
7. 85th . Jimmy Wilde
8. 94th . Jim Driscoll
9. 95th . Benny Lynch

[adietheforestfa]

Kirkland Llaing

[Kid McCoy]

Jimmy Wilde or Ted Kid Lewis, take your pick.

[Leakbeak]

I was just looking at the boxrec all time p4p rankings .
Here's the British boxers in order on boxrec
1. 50th . Joe Calzaghe
2. 55th . Naseem Hamed
3. 62th . Lennox Lewis
4. 74th . Bob Fitzsimmons
5. 76th . Ted Kid Lewis
6. 77th . Jackie Paterson
7. 85th . Jimmy Wilde
8. 94th . Jim Driscoll
9. 95th . Benny Lynch

Boxrec are a bunch of jokers! I'm sure they have Chavez above Whitaker. Or was that Bert Sugar? The BBC are jokers too, putting Barry McGuigan and his one title defence ahead of Naz. I would say Lewis was best of all time, with Naz being most talented (when people get over his disappearing act, they will admit how good he was). Calzaghe would be down the list because he never tested himself against any prime opponents from the elite. Kessler was only guy who was good that he fought in his prime, but Mikkel falls short of elite. I would put Hatton & Nigel Benn in my top five too.

I would love to pretend I have seen anything more of clips of Wilde and Lewis, but I haven't. They look like top five material too but I haven't seen enough of them and more importantly their opponents to make a judgement. Conteh and them guys looked OK, but I heard they always got beaten up in the end. My list from what I have seen would look a bit like this:

1) Lewis
2) Naz
3) Hatton
4) Calzaghe
5) Benn

[SHB]

Jimmy Wilde or Ted Kid Lewis, take your pick.

Is the right answer.

[Clegg]

The best of the past 20 years IMO:

Lewis
Calzaghe
Eubank
Benn
Hamed
Hatton
Watson
Graham
Bruno
Not sure who I'd have in 10th place.

I can't comment on the older guys as I don't have the knowledge. Honeyghan was 20ish years ago, but I'm not sure where I'd place him, although he certainly deserves a place.

[Ryn0]

Jimmy Wilde or Lennox Lewis.