Can you name every British world champ?

[oliverfennell]

Just put together this quiz. See how you get on.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/oliverf/ukworldchamps

NB1: Linear and big 4 belts only (no WBU, WBF etc)
NB2: Includes N. Ireland boxers
NB3: Multiple-weight champs are listed only once
NB4: Surnames only are acceptable

If I've missed any, please let me know.

And no spoilers in the thread for those who haven't yet played!

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

[dbf]

Great quiz - good fun. Didnt do too well though!

[oliverfennell]

Cheers for the fills, but FFS there doesn't appear to be an edit feature after the game has gone live, so I can't add them. That also represents a problem when new champs come along.

So, if any are missing, good idea to post them in this thread. Otherwise, please don't post answers which are present and correct.

Bigmark, just be grateful there's no Dariusz Michaczewski, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk or Pongsaklek Wonjongkam in there!

[mickey1975]

Got 39 with about 5 spelling mistakes.Wheres Jason Matthews?

[Tommy Gunn13]

Got 39 with about 5 spelling mistakes.Wheres Jason Matthews?

I got 37 missed some right easy ones
I was going to say no jason matthews

[oliverfennell]

Matthews was only interim, wasn't he? (I wouldn't count that)

[Matt W]

I got 44.

[jonp]

no maurice hope?

I got 49
Lol murray sutherland will get a few people

[oliverfennell]

Hope is in there. Don't tell me you spelled it wrong!

[oliverfennell]

Hmm, apparently not. Honestly, I swore I typed him in!

[stujones]

Maurice Hope was the one I was typing and typing with nothing.... is Michael Bentt classed as American?

[oliverfennell]

Maurice Hope was the one I was typing and typing with nothing.... is Michael Bentt classed as American?

Yes. I think he was born in London but otherwise was born and raised American. He just wanted to cash in on the pro-Lewis/pro-Bruno bandwagon... and to add a bit of spice to his fight with Hide. He was certainly never mentioned as British before that.

[Datsue]

Good game. Robbie Regan is missing, mate.

Remember his EBU win over Luigi Camputaro. It was a grueller. Regan decided to try out a new pair of booth and ended up with painful blisters on his feet but battled through to take the title. Used to enjoy watching him fight. Thanks for the blast from the past

Though I still maintain Robbie was at his utter best--technically & physically--the night he fought Alberto Jiminez for the WBO title. Right hard little fecker was that Jiminez; I thought Regan boxed wonderfully, but the Mexican was supreme that night.

There were loads of shite-hot Mexicans who came over during the 90's, that's what got me following Latin boxing (Goyo Vargas, Marcos Villasana, Jiminez, , Jose Luis Lopez, that's a bit of a murderer's row just there)...

/thread_derailment

[banjo]

59 without cheating and looking them up, one of the three i didn't get i didn't even know was British and the other two I could picture but couldn't think of their names and yeah maurice hope wasn't listed.

fun game though

[sgtcecil]

pat clinton is missing too

[n1ebf]

31 or 32 I got.......I'm glad I didn't do it again without looking at the answers because I would not have fared much better with 25 minutes!

[WelshDevil]

Posted the game on Budweiser Boxing in the History section.

They are saying that there's no Maurice Hope or Wayne McCullough. Not sure if true but they tried.

Great game though, Oliver, and the boffs are enjoying it.

[pyenest77]

really enjoyed that got 32. But when the answers came up at the end there was a couple I spelt wrong & a load that I should have known!

[Kit]

Also Missing Robbie Regan, Ola Afolabi, would have had over 50 without spelling mistakes.

[The Hawk]

Got 41 and head went blank, no Wayne McCullough, very well done though

[n1ebf]

Also Missing Robbie Regan, Ola Afolabi, would have had over 50 without spelling mistakes.

I typed in Ola Afolabi......didn't he take a belt off Enzo?? I also typed in Wayne Mcculloch I assumed he must be full on Irish so not eligible......Quite embarrassingly one of the biggest names of the 90s and British Boxing history (he liked leopard print and Allah D ) was the 26th of the 32 I got......I also nearly forgot the Cobra he came in at 31

I had assumed Tony Sibson was a World Champ judging off comments I've read on here in the past....

[hurlock]

i thought of maurice hope reading the thread D

chris pyatt is another discredited champion.

[Kit]

Also I dont remember seeing Benny Lynch on there.
Good game.

[n1ebf]

Also I dont remember seeing Benny Lynch on there.
Good game.

He is, I just finished it, I was disappointed to only get 29. I missed some really obvious ones too, I spent about five minutes trying to spell Holeyghan.

Lloyd Honeyghan mate.....I spelt it with a bit of luck but even tho I knew who I meant it took his name a while to come, I got Don Curry straight away lol