foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Kit
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I know a Irish people get upset when Irish fighters like, Mike McCallum and Steve Collins get grouped in as British, but personally I just see anyone from the British Isles as our home nations fighters.
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What’s with this McCallum thing ?
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littlepug wrote: 18 May 2021, 09:14 What’s with this McCallum thing ?
He's from Cleckheaton, but got involved with some lads from Chappletown and developed an accent. Some flat eathers claim hes Jamaican.
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mickey1975 wrote: 18 May 2021, 09:28
littlepug wrote: 18 May 2021, 09:14 What’s with this McCallum thing ?
He's from Cleckheaton, but got involved with some lads from Chappletown and developed an accent. Some flat eathers claim hes Jamaican.
:clap:
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littlepug wrote: 18 May 2021, 12:52
mickey1975 wrote: 18 May 2021, 09:28
littlepug wrote: 18 May 2021, 09:14 What’s with this McCallum thing ?
He's from Cleckheaton, but got involved with some lads from Chappletown and developed an accent. Some flat eathers claim hes Jamaican.
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Ive said before,McCallum is from Birmingham and he got his distinctive Jamaican accent hanging round with Ali Campbell from reggae band UB40
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Usyk is now 8-0 again British fighters

Although he’s beaten 3 of them twice and Chisora fight was not a world title fight.
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coghaugen11 wrote: 10 May 2021, 11:40 Calzaghe has Eubank, Reid, Starie, Woodhall and Kessler (half-Brit).
Calzaghe is British.
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I'm no too sure his numbers,but in the 90s a wee south African boxer ,boxed in Britain a good few times,beat the Scottish lad paul weir a cpl o times,im sure he had a few other scalps ,he was a good wee fighter
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In world title fights, Matala has 6, Uysk 7 and Canelo 8
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