What are your favourite fights that happened in a British ring?

[mickey1975]

Live - Eubank v Wharton

Naz v Ingle (Tommy Hearns on the bill too)

On TV. Benn v Watson
Benn v McLellan
Any Mike Tyson fight especially the first Bruno match.

Check out Wharton v Louis Gent Cracker of a fight

Btw Tyson Bruno Both were in the US

Wharton v Rod Carr 1 was a better fight.

[si7dog7]

Live - Eubank v Wharton

Naz v Ingle (Tommy Hearns on the bill too)

On TV. Benn v Watson
Benn v McLellan
Any Mike Tyson fight especially the first Bruno match.

Check out Wharton v Louis Gent Cracker of a fight

Btw Tyson Bruno Both were in the US

Wharton v Rod Carr 1 was a better fight.

In the “to watch” bag
Thanks Mickey

[TheLeprechaun]

Wharton had some following when he was coming through didn't he? I watched some of his early fights a while back and the atmosphere was electric.

[JWA31]

Ayers v Rigby fight 1

Pleased someone has mentioned this one, what an epic. The ending was very gentlemanly too after a very hard battle. Can't remember seeing a fight end like that since.

It's the ending that makes the fight for me .

By rights, in the letter of the law, Ayers should have been DQ'd for refusing to fight on, but the ref did the right thing, Rigby was taking a sustained beating, and it was only going one way.

I'd love to interview the two of them, apparently Michael Ayers drinks in Chiswick someone said, I wonder where Wayne Rigby is these days?

Wayne's a carer for disabled kids in Manchester I believe. I know his dad.

[mickey1975]

Wharton had some following when he was coming through didn't he? I watched some of his early fights a while back and the atmosphere was electric.

Yes. Elland Road in his 16th fight, live on BBC 1 for the British Title. Imagine that now. And it was midweek.

[Cholo_cws]

Benn vs McClellan
Calzaghe vs lacy
Brodie vs chi 1
Benn vs eubank 1
Gomez vs Arthur
Thompson vs rothmann(????)
Froch vs bute
Froch vs pascal
Woods vs hoye
Moore vs macklin
Hatton vs tsyzu

Basically too many to mention. I tell you what, he gets a lot of stick, but how many of these did FW put on?

Four? I’d throw in my guy Carl Johanneson v Kevin Mitchell, a truly great fight also on a FW card. Matchroom had four there too, Hobson two and Maloney one.

Not nitpicking Mickey but Froch-Pascal was Hennessy. Hennessy had a good stable - Froch, Fury, Barker, Murray. Shame ITV pulled the plug. He seemed to have no problem letting Fury fight on a Hearn undercard (Sykes-Morris in Huddersfield) and went ahead with Fury's fights with McDermott on Maloney's shows. Take note Ben Shalom.

[mickey1975]

Benn vs McClellan
Calzaghe vs lacy
Brodie vs chi 1
Benn vs eubank 1
Gomez vs Arthur
Thompson vs rothmann(????)
Froch vs bute
Froch vs pascal
Woods vs hoye
Moore vs macklin
Hatton vs tsyzu

Basically too many to mention. I tell you what, he gets a lot of stick, but how many of these did FW put on?

Four? I’d throw in my guy Carl Johanneson v Kevin Mitchell, a truly great fight also on a FW card. Matchroom had four there too, Hobson two and Maloney one.

Not nitpicking Mickey but Froch-Pascal was Hennessy. Hennessy had a good stable - Froch, Fury, Barker, Murray. Shame ITV pulled the plug. He seemed to have no problem letting Fury fight on a Hearn undercard (Sykes-Morris in Huddersfield) and went ahead with Fury's fights with McDermott on Maloney's shows. Take note Ben Shalom.

Yes, my mistake, George Groves was also on at Huddersfield one night i was there, Sykes v Johanneson, as was Carl Frampton that night.

[The Gratest]

Haye and Chisora enthralled me with some sweet music in the ring together. Cracking finish as well.

[black panther]

Outside the crackers already mentioned:

Bobby Vanzie Vs Steve Murray
Francis Ampofo Vs Johnny Armour trilogy

Kessler Vs Calzaghe I just remember being a real high level engrossing affair with Calzaghe losing the early exchanges and getting clipped but making amazing adjustments to hurt Kessler to the body and get the win.

[Terminator666]

I think Harry Carpenter says they were paid just over 40k each. Good money back then