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Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 15:13
by silkov
Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 15:16
by Eric the Viking
![[icon_e_biggrin.gif] :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
:D:D
...but since Mikey's off making a boxers-in-prison movie, Grimmy has to content himself with feeling up one of the seven dwarves! "Now Grumpy, no need to be Bashful ... come and sit on uncle Grimmy's lap..."
Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 15:24
by silkov
Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 16:58
by KOJOE90
Grimm wrote:Would you please stop with this. There is no such thing as a great fighter from England.
Another wind-up? I do hope so.
I have an interview on tape where Mike Tyson whom you claim is the most highly skilled Heavyweight ever is praising and stating his admiration of the GREAT fighters from England such as Jack Berg and Ted Lewis.
Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 17:09
by silkov
KOJOE90 wrote:Grimm wrote:Would you please stop with this. There is no such thing as a great fighter from England.
Another wind-up? I do hope so.
I have an interview on tape where Mike Tyson whom you claim is the most highly skilled Heavyweight ever is praising and stating his admiration of the GREAT fighters from England such as Jack Berg and Ted Lewis.
It should be remembered that Britain and England in particular is a mite smaller them America hence the fact that more champs have emerged from the delighted states... all in all I think we have produced quite a resonable number of outstanding fighters and ofcourse we did actually start the game off ourselves so there! Grimm, go back to your fairytales!!!... 8)

Posted: 30 Apr 2005, 18:09
by Eric the Viking
KOJOE90 wrote:I have an interview on tape where Mike Tyson whom you claim is the most highly skilled Heavyweight ever is praising and stating his admiration of the GREAT fighters from England such as Jack Berg and Ted Lewis.
"I juthht want to kithh them on thothe big english lipthh of theirthhh..."
Posted: 01 May 2005, 07:28
by KOJOE90
He may not have been the greatest fighter that England ever produced but I think Birminghams Owen Moran at least deserves a mention at this point.
He spent most of career in the USA fighting their very best and with some sucsses.
Posted: 01 May 2005, 08:09
by silkov
KOJOE90 wrote:He may not have been the greatest fighter that England ever produced but I think Birminghams Owen Moran at least deserves a mention at this point.
He spent most of career in the USA fighting their very best and with some sucsses.
He was definately one of our greatest... from what I've read he was robbed twice against Abe Attel in bouts for the World feather weight title, koed by a low blow by Ad Wolghast when fighting for the world lightweighttitle and he was not much more than a beefed up Bantamweight. Jimmy Johnstone a renowned American fight manager said in around the 50s that Moran was the greatest British fighter he had ever seen.
Posted: 04 May 2005, 01:46
by CM
I'll throw another name into the hat and this one's from way back in the London Prize Ring days: Daniel Mendoza, the Spanish/British Jew from Whitechapel, who was the best fighter of his time despite only being a junior middleweight by today's standards. He may have been the first scientific boxer and was reportedly the true inventor of the 'D'Amato Method'.