Without trying to sound like I'm 'hating', or whatever, this is a ****** comment to make. Ridiculous.
There have been world champions in the UK throughout the course of history and boxing here in the 90s was massive when fighters like Benn, Eubank, Lewis etc were on the scene.
Maybe since then it has died down and we're currently starting to see a resurgence (although I dunno if that's necessarily true either), but to say that the sport has just recently become popular is wrong.
Considering how quick the Brits are to declare their Euro level fighters as World Class I wouldn't be surprised if they give away the black belts once the kids perfect their stance on the 3rd day of class.
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