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mickey1975 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 11:10 Roy Jones jr had mixed results with us lads. He beat Clinton Woods and Fry but lost to McCallum, Enzo and Calzaghe. Oh, and he beat Woodhall in The Olympics. Richie was holding his feet.

I totally can't remember Fry fought Jones jnr. I'm getting old but have no memory. I had ro check. I still can't believe it

Derek Chisora if you count him as born in Zimbabwe beat a lot of Brits but also took a few brit beatdowns.......

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 13:20 Derek Chisora if you count him as born in Zimbabwe beat a lot of Brits but also took a few brit beatdowns.......

Whyte as well then.. Born in Jamaica.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 13:29

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 13:20 Derek Chisora if you count him as born in Zimbabwe beat a lot of Brits but also took a few brit beatdowns.......

Whyte as well then.. Born in Jamaica.

True. I only mentioned it cos a poster mentioned Howard Eastman. Also Joe Bugner was born in Hungary and later was known as 'Aussie Joe'... lol. The definition of nationality / national origin is complex

About seven for Kamil Sokolowski, if he hasn't been mentioned already.

Couple of Frenchmen to mention:

Guy Gracia beat nine Brits, including Dave Charnley twice, in the 50s and early 60s - https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/36637

Between 1946 and 1956, Ray Famechon had plenty of success here - 15-4 in Britain mostly against Brits, including some major fights for the EBU title and a world title eliminator - https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/12847

BigDoofus wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 11:57

mickey1975 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 11:10 Roy Jones jr had mixed results with us lads. He beat Clinton Woods and Fry but lost to McCallum, Enzo and Calzaghe. Oh, and he beat Woodhall in The Olympics. Richie was holding his feet.

Jones beat McCallum.

Typo.

Sugar Boy Malinga always gave Brits a good scrap win or lose.
He beat Nigel Benn Robin Reid and Trevor Ambrose

Sammy Scaff wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 14:04 Sugar Boy Malinga always gave Brits a good scrap win or lose.
He beat Nigel Benn Robin Reid and Trevor Ambrose

He probably could have beaten Woodhall too, but was a bit too long in the tooth.

Can’t remember how many they beat but Fabrice Benichou and Vincenzo Belcastro both mixed it with a few Brits.

littlepug wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 19:05 Can’t remember how many they beat but Fabrice Benichou and Vincenzo Belcastro both mixed it with a few Brits.

Belcastro had an incredible engine. Just looking at his record, the Italian went the full 12 rounds a whopping 22 times in his long career, including the 12 he took a young Naz of course.

bennie wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 02:37

littlepug wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 19:05 Can’t remember how many they beat but Fabrice Benichou and Vincenzo Belcastro both mixed it with a few Brits.

Belcastro had an incredible engine. Just looking at his record, the Italian went the full 12 rounds a whopping 22 times in his long career, including the 12 he took a young Naz of course.

Yeah tough little dude

Sebastian Rothman did in some decent Brits. Very nearly adding Carl Thompson before getting hit with a Hail Mary.

littlepug wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 10:50

bennie wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 02:37

littlepug wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 19:05 Can’t remember how many they beat but Fabrice Benichou and Vincenzo Belcastro both mixed it with a few Brits.

Belcastro had an incredible engine. Just looking at his record, the Italian went the full 12 rounds a whopping 22 times in his long career, including the 12 he took a young Naz of course.

Yeah tough little dude

Benichou was also a stayer and had two cracking European title fights with John Davison.

bennie wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022, 02:02

littlepug wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 10:50

bennie wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 02:37

Belcastro had an incredible engine. Just looking at his record, the Italian went the full 12 rounds a whopping 22 times in his long career, including the 12 he took a young Naz of course.

Yeah tough little dude

Benichou was also a stayer and had two cracking European title fights with John Davison.

Can remember him mainly for battling with Hoko and ending up a bloody mess.

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 10:35 i never actually saw Romanov at the time I just remember hearing he absolutely sliced the likes of Thaxton and Vanzie apart

nothing for him on youtube I don't think

I was at that fight at York Hall. Thaxton swung and missed some bombs but just kept eating counters. Romanov well and truly gored him. He looked so good, I still can't believe that fight was basically the end of him. I stood ringside next to him after the fight and he was short but built like a tank (Thaxton ditto).

I then got my picture taken with Jim Watt and failed to make a remotely convincing fist.

I think he was called tsafi munyai?

Came over and beat most of the uks fly/bantams in the mid 2000s

Sad news that Buster Drayton has passed away , 70 years old.
He really was a Brit basher and a top guy as well.
R.I.P

orbtastic wrote: ↑11 Nov 2019, 13:46

Stuarty wrote: ↑11 Nov 2019, 13:34

orbtastic wrote: ↑11 Nov 2019, 13:22 He killed someone in some sort of RTA, had a while away from the sport due to the crash (and then later being in prison) and kept threatening to make a comeback. I think he's still unbeaten and fighting up at cruiser.

You should do a worst boxer to be a passenger in the car with. There's dozens.

Errol Spence would win that one followed closely by Naz

Simon
Eubank
Naz
Spence
Monzon
Sanchez
Williams
Corrales
Paziena
Thurman
Chic Calderwood

Nah, Simon is the GOAT for car related killings.

He's done it twice.

First time, hit and run at 140mph wiping out 2 people, the second time he hit a family killing 3 people -- including a little baby.

REEVE wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022, 16:55 I think he was called tsafi munyai?

Came over and beat most of the uks fly/bantams in the mid 2000s

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/225386
The atomic spider

Canelo adding another British fighter to his record.

what does cinnamon have against us

Pablo Sarmiento - back to back wins over Billy Schwer and Michael Ayers is good going.

Any recent Brit Bashers

Steve Collins, 13 wins 0 losses vs Brits.

This thread caught my eye. Some folks with long memories posting here!

I'll throw in a couple that I don't believe have been mentioned.

Cuban heavyweight Nino Valdes won three fights by KO/TKO in the UK, against Don Cockell, Dick Richardson and Brian London (the fight with London was stopped due to a cut).

Germany's former European heavyweight champion Karl Mildenberger beat a string of British boxers. Mildenberger started out as a light-heavy: British boxers he defeated: Arthur Howard, Ron Redrup, Alex Buxton, Joe Bygraves (born in Jamaica but longtime resident of Birkenhead), Joe Erskine and Billy Walker. Mildenberger basically beat up a game Walker in eight rounds in a European title fight in London. But Dick Richardson KO'd Mildenberger in one round in Dortmund in a big upset, while in his last fight, at Wembley, a shot Mildenberger got himself DQ'd for butting Henry Cooper.

Guy Gracia of France has been mentioned. As I recall, the Brit writers back in the 1950s dubbed Gracia "The destroyer of British lightweights."