Favourite international export?

[ShadrachSimmo]

Although they had mixed results Breidis Prescott and Souleman M`Baye done well visiting Britain on occasion.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Choi Tseveenpurev

This. Sergio Martinez also well worth a mention from his early/mid career victories over here.

Katsidis explosive over here against Earl & Mitchell, not so much against Burns and C***e

Roman Karmazin....another one.

[Bodyshot3]

A few slightly obscure ones, but good fighters and characters.

Sebastian Rothmann.

Big South African lad who fought nearly all the British cruisers (both here and in SA) and often got a result before Carl Thompson did a number on in Sheffield. Held a couple of the plastic belts but was better than the title....powerful guy who had some good fights over here.

Ole Klemetsen

Big, big punching Norwegian light-heavy who had to be a road warrior because pro boxing is banned at home. Was a bit up and down, but when he got it right he got it really right. Good fight with Clinton Woods and he caught Crawford Ashley cold as well. In between Crawford and Clinton he got sparked by the always very dangerous Peter Oboh. Clinton said the guy had a serious dig on him. Great name as well: The Golden Viking.

In-Jin Chi

Had a couple of mental world title fights with our very own Michael Brodie, proper wars. That Korean guy was like a bloke granite because Mike hit him with tons of shots in the first fight and the bloke was not budging. Won the rematch as well. I like Brodie alot and he was good, but that Korean guy seemed to enjoy pain because it made him fight better.

[slapbangwhallop]

Levan Kirakosyan, he was always in good fights in Britain and often upsetting the apple cart.

[slapbangwhallop]

Levan Kirakosyan, he was always in good fights in Britain and often upsetting the apple cart.

I should've read Page 2 before posting. :/

[Taansend]

Can remember Donovan Boucher turning over a few brits

He was a good boxer.

[PredatorHayds]

A bit of topic but anyone see the Brit who boxed a 6 rounder in a sports hall in Hungary a few weeks ago.
Anthony Cacace the good Irish prospect Mcguigsn had got fought in Budapest.
I knew all the Hungarians came here, he's the only one I recall we sent there.

[jamesmcdonnell]

A few slightly obscure ones, but good fighters and characters.

Sebastian Rothmann.

Big South African lad who fought nearly all the British cruisers (both here and in SA) and often got a result before Carl Thompson did a number on in Sheffield. Held a couple of the plastic belts but was better than the title....powerful guy who had some good fights over here.

Ole Klemetsen

Big, big punching Norwegian light-heavy who had to be a road warrior because pro boxing is banned at home. Was a bit up and down, but when he got it right he got it really right. Good fight with Clinton Woods and he caught Crawford Ashley cold as well. In between Crawford and Clinton he got sparked by the always very dangerous Peter Oboh. Clinton said the guy had a serious dig on him. Great name as well: The Golden Viking.

In-Jin Chi

Had a couple of mental world title fights with our very own Michael Brodie, proper wars. That Korean guy was like a bloke granite because Mike hit him with tons of shots in the first fight and the bloke was not budging. Won the rematch as well. I like Brodie alot and he was good, but that Korean guy seemed to enjoy pain because it made him fight better.

Christ yeah, those two fights with Chi were mind boggling, he hit the guy with so many full blown shots it was untrue. I think that is probably the most unreal insensitivity to being punched I've ever seen.

[Boxerbeetle]

A few slightly obscure ones, but good fighters and characters.

Sebastian Rothmann.

Big South African lad who fought nearly all the British cruisers (both here and in SA) and often got a result before Carl Thompson did a number on in Sheffield. Held a couple of the plastic belts but was better than the title....powerful guy who had some good fights over here.

Ole Klemetsen

Big, big punching Norwegian light-heavy who had to be a road warrior because pro boxing is banned at home. Was a bit up and down, but when he got it right he got it really right. Good fight with Clinton Woods and he caught Crawford Ashley cold as well. In between Crawford and Clinton he got sparked by the always very dangerous Peter Oboh. Clinton said the guy had a serious dig on him. Great name as well: The Golden Viking.

In-Jin Chi

Had a couple of mental world title fights with our very own Michael Brodie, proper wars. That Korean guy was like a bloke granite because Mike hit him with tons of shots in the first fight and the bloke was not budging. Won the rematch as well. I like Brodie alot and he was good, but that Korean guy seemed to enjoy pain because it made him fight better.

Christ yeah, those two fights with Chi were mind boggling, he hit the guy with so many full blown shots it was untrue. I think that is probably the most unreal insensitivity to being punched I've ever seen.

Even Eric Morales couldn't put a dent in Chi, the guy was a machine.

[johnswan1]

I remember thinking Steve Molitor looked something special when he first came over and beat Michael Hunter. Didn't look the same guy years later when coming back to the UK for fights against Booth and Frampton.

[TheWigwam]

Emanuel Augustus had a fun fight against Jon Thaxton

[palooka]

Lenzie Morgan was a tough cookie.

Johnny Tapia was pretty much a legend.

[Bodyshot3]

I

remember thinking Steve Molitor looked something special when he first came over and beat Michael Hunter. Didn't look the same guy years later when coming back to the UK for fights against Booth and Frampton.

Nice shout, Molitor was very decent but towards the end we did not see the best of him and he was coming just for the cheque.

Just an aside...Corrie Sanders was a fairly frequent visitor to these shores. Some of them were learning fights but he flattened Jorge Valdes inside a round in Bristol of all places...which I think I saw at the time..... possibly on a Glenn Catley undercard?

[Loftgroov]

Marvin Hagler

[azzman]

Glen Johnson The Road Warrior. Great nickname too.

[keithmoonhangover]

Donovan Boucher
Buck Smith
Baby Jake
James Tillis

[PredatorHayds]

Donovan Boucher
Buck Smith
Baby Jake
James Tillis

Read that Baby Jake died a few years ago.

My second fave fighter under 5ft after Humberto Gonzalez

[magwitch]

Barrera - just the once.

Clearly, Barrera doesn't fit the criteria then. At was at that fight. Barerra on the ropes reminded me of one of those little buoys that bob up and down on the waves. Never looked flustered in the slightest.

[magwitch]

Jackson Asiku and also Choi - and if I'm not mistaken they boxed one another, in England, down in the smoke. Was a great bout by accounts. Did anybody here go?

[magwitch]

Winky Wright came over a fair number of times & was brilliant to watch imo.

Loved Winky. I should really seek out those fights as they were just before my time and slipped under the radar a bit. I've seen snippets and I just remember what a cool, comfortable dude he looked. Levels above.

[magwitch]

Choi Tseveenpurev

This. Sergio Martinez also well worth a mention from his early/mid career victories over here.

Katsidis explosive over here against Earl & Mitchell, not so much against Burns and C***e

Roman Karmazin....another one.

He was the business. Wasn't "From Hell" his nickname or something?..............might sound a touch ignorant this but I'm a little bit surprised that someone out of Moscow could reach that level of ability at boxing. It's not exactly an easy place to get on for an ordinary chap, I'd have thought.
Also, I would have thought the Russian Mafia and general ne'erdowells would be bothering you like flies around sh*t wanting you to "do jobs" for them.
It really goes to show how good those Americans were around that time. I can't remember who Karmazin lost to, but I know he slipped up against at least one of them, although I think he may have been a belt holder, for a little while anyway.

[magwitch]

I

remember thinking Steve Molitor looked something special when he first came over and beat Michael Hunter. Didn't look the same guy years later when coming back to the UK for fights against Booth and Frampton.

Nice shout, Molitor was very decent but towards the end we did not see the best of him and he was coming just for the cheque.

Steve Molitor was one slick son of a gun. I was at his fight when he stopped Hunter. The punch that put Hunter over was actually not much in itself. But the one before it was flush on the mush and he can't have seen it coming. It wasn't even from the peripheral vision, like a hook, it was just a straight right hand with everything on it. Like I say, very, very fast was Molitor. I thought I was watching a genuine pound for pounder in the making there.....but he ran into all sorts of bother with the 6 foot plus Panamanian, and never really seemed to scale the same heights after that. Not sure why because he looked like a very rounded fighter.

[magwitch]

Leva Kirakosyan done the business over here a few times flattening Johanesson and Scot Lawton.

Yeah he was a hardy guy! Didn't Gomez beat him?

Yeah Steve Foster Jr absolutely destroyed him though he will have been getting on then.

I think Johanneson's second fight with Kirakosyan was overseas, if I'm not mistaken. I used to really rate Carl Johanneson when he was coming through, but that was an absolutely horrible assignment he was given......and to do it twice - and lose like that a second time , certainly took some guts.


I remember Steven Foster Jr in an absolute classic against.....I think, Alex Arthur. I think it got declared a draw, I'd have to check, but Foster Jr really impressed me that night. Great fitness. Great action. To take nothing away from Arthur either.

[palooka]

Though Barnsley has its issues it is not overseas, mag.

Kirakosyan is one of my favourite punchers to watch, he had a really distinctive style.

[handsofstone]

Arthur got the nod against Foster Jr Magwitch but Stephen put Alex down late on,might have been the 11th and Arthur was on queer street but he made it to the end,i didnt score fights back then but i remember Foster Jr and his team were raging that they never won the title

Alex Arthur seemed to be one of they fighters who was probably better before he became world champ.....like Mike Tyson