Boxing quiz / fact

[stujones]

Just wondering if Canelo has beaten the most Brits in World title fights....4...

GGG has beaten 3 Brits in World title fights....Macklin, Murray and Brook.....but I cannot think of anyone else whose beaten 4 Brits.

[jamamb]

what about dem old timers who fought way more

[littlepug]

Steve Collins beat 6

[stujones]

Steve Collins beat 6

Sorry I meant not from or primarily based in the UK. There'd be loads of British based fighters whose done that....Steve Robinson beat 5. Calzaghe surely more.

[dalcumly]

Ali

Cooper, London, Dunn and Bugner ?

[danconnollyeire]

Sorry I meant not from or primarily based in the UK. There'd be loads of British based fighters whose done that....Steve Robinson beat 5. Calzaghe surely more.

Erm... Collins isn’t from Britain nor was he primarily based there

[Coco]

Baby Jake, lost to Culshaw and McCauley but beat Weir x2, Cantwell x2, Clinton and Ampofo

[Coco]

But Sergio Garcia has beaten 5!

Williams, Stone, Macklin, Murray and Barker

[stujones]

Just realised it's 5 for Canelo also...forgot Liam Smith.

Hatton, Rhodes, Khan, Smith, Fielding

[stujones]

But Sergio Garcia has beaten 5!

Williams, Stone, Macklin, Murray and Barker

Williams and Stone not for a big 4 world title

[ThereByTheGrace]

Vitali beat 3 and had a good fight with lewis. Jack beat 2 and got a draw v degale. Im sure there'll be others with more than 3 its a good question

[bigped]

Arthur Abraham beat

Martin Murray /Paul Smith /Wayne elcock and Howard Eastman

Lost to froch and Eubanks Jnr

[stujones]

Erm... Collins isn’t from Britain nor was he primarily based there

Fair call, forgot how many if his fights were in Ireland....but you know what I mean though....they weren't hard fights to make....they were classed domestic world title fights.

My calculation is 5 different opponents for Collins.....Benn, Eubank, Brown, Carr, Pyatt. So tying with Alvarez.

[stujones]

Winky Wright famously outclassed 3 Brits on the bounce, but don't think he added to it.

[Zubrei]

Vitali did 3. Chisoa, Williams, and Hide
Arthur Abraham did 3. Murray, Smith x2 (ridiculous that he got 2 shots), and Wayne Elcock

I've got no more, pre 90s will require more of a historian

[Coco]

Just realised it's 5 for Canelo also...forgot Liam Smith.

Hatton, Rhodes, Khan, Smith, Fielding

But Fielding was for a regular belt

[Ruthless-RKO]

TC will be on 2 if he beats Khan. Tbh there are no other decent BRIT WW’s

[Ricky]

But Sergio Garcia has beaten 5!

Williams, Stone, Macklin, Murray and Barker

You mean Sergio Martinez... someone's excited for the masters i reckon


Actually wasn't the fella that just beat Cheezman called Sergio Garcia? Below par performance that was putt in from the cheese, he'll need to improve or the game's a bogey as far as his world title hopes are concerned.

[tobyh5]

You mean Sergio Martinez... someone's excited for the masters i reckon


Actually wasn't the fella that just beat Cheezman called Sergio Garcia? Below par performance that was putt in from the cheese, he'll need to improve or the game's a bogey as far as his world title hopes are concerned.

Ha I was literally scrolling down with the same point, hoping no one else had picked up on it, but you beat me to it

[Coco]

You mean Sergio Martinez... someone's excited for the masters i reckon


Actually wasn't the fella that just beat Cheezman called Sergio Garcia? Below par performance that was putt in from the cheese, he'll need to improve or the game's a bogey as far as his world title hopes are concerned.

Sergio bloody Garcia! What was I thinking!

[stujones]

Arthur Abraham beat

Martin Murray /Paul Smith /Wayne elcock and Howard Eastman

Lost to froch and Eubanks Jnr

Eastman was a non world title fight.

[stujones]

Barrera has 3 (although Naz technically wasn't for a big four belt). GGG has 3 and a British based Pole and Linares has 3 and that could rise still.

I cannot think of anyone who beats Canelo / Collins for 5..... I know we can question Fielding's championship status, but for me he at least won that fight in the ring and certainly it is very odd that on every occasion the Brit has travelled abroad to fight Canelo.

[littlepug]

Fair call, forgot how many if his fights were in Ireland....but you know what I mean though....they weren't hard fights to make....they were classed domestic world title fights.

My calculation is 5 different opponents for Collins.....Benn, Eubank, Brown, Carr, Pyatt. So tying with Alvarez.

And Craig Cummings makes 6

[olij999]

To add a few to the above...

5:

Baby Jake Matlala - McAuley, Clinton, Cantwell, Weir, Ampofo (just clarifying re post above as Culshaw was not for any of the main 4 titles)

4:

Sugar Boy Malinga - Benn, Woodhall, Reid, Eubank

3:

Felix Sturm - Murray, Macklin, Barker
Daniel Jiminez - McKenzie, Docherty, Regan

2 (probably loads more):

Sven Ottke - Reid and Starie
Jeff Lacy - Calzaghe and Reid
Markus Beyer - Catley and Woodhall
Keith Holmes - Woodhall and McCracken
Mike McCallum - Watson and Graham
Jeff Harding - Andries and Collins
Maurizio Stecca - McMillan and Driscoll
Cesar Soto - Hamed and McKenzie
Carlos De Leon - Reeson and Nelson
Harry Simon - Lueshing and Alexander
Jose Napoles - Stracey and Charles
Chong Pal Park - Sutherland and Gumbs

[orbtastic]

Malinga doesn't have a win over Woodhall or Eubank? Could argue the Eubank fight was close, as was the first Benn fight (and the second, had the scoring been slightly different).

Assuming the thread is world title wins, which I think it is.