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forcefraser wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 12:18 Kirkland Lang
Tony Sibson

Since 2000!

stujones wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 12:12

dookus wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 10:14

stujones wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 09:07

Were both Magee's known for their Booze and Fags - Brain and Eamonn?

sorry, confused the two!

I thought Brian Magee was WBA interim? But I guess for this thread we're ignoring those baubles

Magee was a full champion - awarded out of the ring and defended (and lost) vs Kessler - Kessler was the champion in recess but he was stripped when they fought.

Ah-ha! Then I think Eamonn is a good shout for this thread

Bomber Graham


oops didn't realise Graham had retired before 2000

stujones wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 09:07

dookus wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 05:53

Coco wrote: ↑07 Feb 2022, 17:54Brian Magee

Great call. If it weren't for the booze and fags..

Were both Magee's known for their Booze and Fags - Brain and Eamonn?

Nah mate. Eamonns brothers were complete opposites of him. Think there was another one...Niall? Who was even a tee total. If you haven't read his book you, you should. Up there with any boxing biography with a great perspective on the troubles and living through them.

Bigdogsnose wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 04:06

stujones wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 09:07

dookus wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 05:53
Great call. If it weren't for the booze and fags..

Were both Magee's known for their Booze and Fags - Brain and Eamonn?

Nah mate. Eamonns brothers were complete opposites of him. Think there was another one...Niall? Who was even a tee total. If you haven't read his book you, you should. Up there with any boxing biography with a great perspective on the troubles and living through them.

Brian isn't his brother. Noel is.

dr_devious wrote: ↑05 Feb 2022, 20:05 Howard Eastman
Luke Campbell
Michael Brodie
Jamie Moore
Ryan Rhodes
Matthew Hatton
Matthew Macklin
Martin Murray
Kevin Mitchell
Andrew Selby

Ten names off the top of my head, probably not the definitive top 10

Damn. For some reason I really thought Rhodes had won the WBO title..... old age

For me, Carl Johanneson was someone who I thought could have went further...
Some of his performances really impressed me, but he just never seemed to make the step up to World level.

Paul McCloskey I think is a good shout. He was someone I was really rooting for but I do think that he strategically made the wrong move accepting the fight against Khan...
If memory serves, the Witld Champs st Light Welter were Amir, Devon Alexander & Tim Bradley... All of which I think would have defeated Paul, but all three had already stated their intention to move up to Welter and chase a Floyd or Manny fight...
Think Paul should have waited and let them move up and slide in there for one of the vacant Championships...

John Duddy was another capable fighter. Seemed to keep on winning but he had a terrible knack of making it hard work for himself and struggling his way through.

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 15:02Damn. For some reason I really thought Rhodes had won the WBO title..... old age

It might be the Canelo thing.
Ryan lost to him along with Matthew Hatton & Liam Smith and those fights were for the WBO Championship.
That might be way you're getting confused.

Another name that could deserve a mention (I don't think he has been yet) is Frankie Gavin...

Frankie was a great disappointment. I don't follow the Amateurs as much as others, but I remember being told that he was one if the best in the world before he signed to turn pro

Then his professional career was full of injuries, strange career decisions and a real lack of consistency.
He should never have taken that fight against Kell Brook... Frankie would have been better served trying to forge career at Lightweight considering he was such a small frame...
Light Welter at his heaviest but even that, some of those guys made him look small...

mickey1975 wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 05:04

Bigdogsnose wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 04:06

stujones wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 09:07

Were both Magee's known for their Booze and Fags - Brain and Eamonn?

Nah mate. Eamonns brothers were complete opposites of him. Think there was another one...Niall? Who was even a tee total. If you haven't read his book you, you should. Up there with any boxing biography with a great perspective on the troubles and living through them.

Brian isn't his brother. Noel is.

There was another of eamonns brothers who was a pro though? Cant remember his name.

Crease wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 19:37

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 15:02Damn. For some reason I really thought Rhodes had won the WBO title..... old age

It might be the Canelo thing.
Ryan lost to him along with Matthew Hatton & Liam Smith and those fights were for the WBO Championship.
That might be way you're getting confused.

Nah it was before then. For some reason I thought he was WBO champ when Jason Mathews stopped him.... I might ve thought he won the title off Silky Jones for some reason though that was way before for the British title. Getting old I guess......

brian rose was a good fighter

tommy coyle

coyle was british level tops, no shame in that but dont think he's really close on this list. tough dude no doubt, but also had some generous matchmaking vs well faded dudes like katsidis and simpson , i think gethin had lost 3 of his last 4 or something too and that fight was strange....gethin dropped him and was in control then basically stopped fighting and retired if i remember

the blasting of dodd was his best win, dodd had been on a good run, including a win over patera. bruezla was the most entertaining. katsisdis......well, mike was so past it then it was more sad than anything.

brilo33 wrote: ↑12 Feb 2022, 18:21tommy coyle

Come on

I think it was 1990s not 2000 but what's the name of that fighter who was a superb boxer but succumbed to drugs, heroin I think?

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:23 I think it was 1990s not 2000 but what's the name of that fighter who was a superb boxer but succumbed to drugs, heroin I think?

Richard Evatt? maybe you mean him.

Crease wrote: ↑11 Feb 2022, 19:42 Another name that could deserve a mention (I don't think he has been yet) is Frankie Gavin...

Frankie was a great disappointment. I don't follow the Amateurs as much as others, but I remember being told that he was one if the best in the world before he signed to turn pro

Then his professional career was full of injuries, strange career decisions and a real lack of consistency.
He should never have taken that fight against Kell Brook... Frankie would have been better served trying to forge career at Lightweight considering he was such a small frame...
Light Welter at his heaviest but even that, some of those guys made him look small...

Frankie was clean i.e. no PEDS, and ill-disciplined diet and cut wise. I'd have more sympathy for him if he had his diet right but it's a sad fact that he was never going to realise his true potential without doping. Heavyweights and cruiserweights are the only divisions I still think it's possible to get to the top without doping (not saying they are all clean, far from it, we know they aren't but I think that you can be strong enough, powerful enough and fit enough to operate at the highest level clean) and I think it's been that way since the seventies.

knockout wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:45

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:23 I think it was 1990s not 2000 but what's the name of that fighter who was a superb boxer but succumbed to drugs, heroin I think?

Richard Evatt? maybe you mean him.

No not him. Though he was a super fighter

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 16:46

knockout wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:45

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:23 I think it was 1990s not 2000 but what's the name of that fighter who was a superb boxer but succumbed to drugs, heroin I think?

Richard Evatt? maybe you mean him.

No not him. Though he was a super fighter

Jason Booth?

589555 wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 17:17

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 16:46

knockout wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 15:45

Richard Evatt? maybe you mean him.

No not him. Though he was a super fighter

Jason Booth?

No. I think he was from the north though

Kevin Lear could have been something special.

Has Michael Brodie been mentioned? Class fighter and unlucky against Jorrin.

jorrin had some luck, also got a gift vs oscar larios, but then got ko'd in 1 in the rematch

Does intercontinental count, or can we have Shades?