BoxRec

It is great that we have so many current and former boxers using these forums. Most UK & Irish boxers now under the age of 25 would use some form of social networking, be it Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and/or Boxrec, but how many current or former (WBC, WBA, IBF or WBO) world champions have posted on here?

I don't remember anything from Hatton, Witter, Haye, Calzaghe, Enzo, Froch, Woods or Khan being posted on here before, and there are no other former champions I can recall having been here.

Does anybody else know of any, and if not, what Boxrec posters could potentially become a world champion within the next few years? Straight off the top of my head I'm thinking Gavin, Brook and Bellew. Any others?

Any why is it that the most high profile fighters don't appear interested in engaging on these forums? Is it because a higher profile attracts more trolls and ass kissers, or do some of them somehow see themselves above it, having already reached the higher levels of the profession?

johnswan1 wrote:Any why is it that the most high profile fighters don't appear interested in engaging on these forums? Is it because a higher profile attracts more trolls and ass kissers, or do some of them somehow see themselves above it, having already reached the higher levels of the profession?

There could be an element of that, but you also have to consider it a numbers game; of hundreds of British boxers we have only 4 current champions.

Didn't Shannon Briggs post on the current scene for a while? Stacy Goodson led him here apparently.

Gavin Rees has posted on here

David Haye (I think), Evander Holyfield and James Toney all have.

And no, I'm not telling you what their usernames are.

Poncey wrote:David Haye (I think), Evander Holyfield and James Toney all have.

And no, I'm not telling you what their usernames are.

I've got to come clean this has been going on long enough, I'm James Toney..........[No I'm James Toney]..........[No I'm James Toney]..........[No I'm James Toney]

cannot see toney posting anywhere :!: :!:


im sure he'd be calling someone out & not be hiding behind a username :!:

MachoMan09 wrote:David Haye used to post quite a lot on ESB circa 2004. I can't remember if he posted here overtly or not. From Poncey's response, I guess not.

yes he was 'David Haye with summin to say' if I remember rightly..

Chambers2 wrote:

Poncey wrote:David Haye (I think), Evander Holyfield and James Toney all have.

And no, I'm not telling you what their usernames are.

I've got to come clean this has been going on long enough, I'm James Toney..........[No I'm James Toney]..........[No I'm James Toney]..........[No I'm James Toney]

More like John Fewkes.

Didn't Chris Eubank post here back in the day?

Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

Joe, is that you?

Dioufy wrote:

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

Joe, is that you?

Think a lot of the top level guys - Calzaghe, Froch etc aren't massive fans of the sport, so have better things to do then come on here.

There also might be an element of them having proved themselves therefore they don't feel the need to engage with us and our opinions.

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

no miles off,i know who it is!

Alba wrote:

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

no miles off,i know who it is!

Think I have an idea going on a similar profile on youtube and the videos posted by them

Dioufy wrote:

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

Joe, is that you?

It is a former WBO champ but his name isn't Joe

The Law wrote:

Dioufy wrote:

wbochamp wrote:Yea Former world champs do post on here now and again!!!

Joe, is that you?

It is a former WBO champ but his name isn't Joe

more than once

sgtcecil wrote:

The Law wrote:

Dioufy wrote: Joe, is that you?

It is a former WBO champ but his name isn't Joe

more than once

at 2 diffrent weights,once in each .

the duke 8)

the duke was a 3 weight champ

sgtcecil wrote:the duke was a 3 weight champ

not wbo 8)

both eubanks & benn were wbo middle & s.middle as was collins as he beat pyatt.

Got to be Paul Weir, hasn't it?

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:Got to be Paul Weir, hasn't it?

That was my guess also.