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lennox normaly gets rated as the best modern british fighter but i i myself have never really thought of lewis as british simply because he learnt to box in canada ,he boxed in the olympics with a canadian vest on. i have no trouble with fighters like lloyd honeyghan who was born in jamaica but learnt to box in england .
lewis never trained in britain or really lived here so i find it hard to call him british , as a fighter i like lewis i just not sure what to call him .

Who cares if he learned to box in England or Mercury? Appreciate his skills

Racist thread IMO.

Hagler2002 wrote:Racist thread IMO.

He was English....... because he was excellent!!

Guess where Greg Rusedskis from????

Hagler2002 wrote:Racist thread IMO.

how is this racist ? i'm asking a valid question .......

He is British. He was born in East Ham. He moved when he was 12 or something.

Being born in London means you are British. If I'm born in England but move to France aged 12 to eventually learn a trade over there, I am still British. What about this do people not understand?

Riddick Blowe wrote:He is British. He was born in East Ham. He moved when he was 12 or something.

Being born in London means you are British. If I'm born in England but move to France aged 12 to eventually learn a trade over there, I am still British. What about this do people not understand?

cliff richard was born in india is he indian then . bradley wiggins was born in belgium but he's not a belgium and eddie izzard was born in the yeman yet he is english

Jamican, hands down

stevedoc wrote:

Riddick Blowe wrote:He is British. He was born in East Ham. He moved when he was 12 or something.

Being born in London means you are British. If I'm born in England but move to France aged 12 to eventually learn a trade over there, I am still British. What about this do people not understand?

cliff richard was born in india is he indian then . bradley wiggins was born in belgium but he's not a belgium and eddie izzard was born in the yeman yet he is english

They may have been entitled to dual citizenship, I don't know. Maybe Bradley Wiggins could have been 'a Belgium' as you put it. Lennox also holds a Canadian passport, it should be said. He holds dual citizenship but it is still accurate to call him British. In my book growing up here for 12 years makes him more British than if you were to argue he was solely Canadian.

'Jamican, hands down' doesn't come into it either.

Do you think of him as gay or straight?

what about bradley wiggins and justin rose?

What ever lennox himself choses to be ! I'm happy with !

I think Britain, Canada and Jamaica can claim him. Why can't we share him?

Camacish?

danconnollyeire wrote:Camacish?

Yes.

If he had never won a world title I would have considered him as Canadian

He learnt to box in Canada were he was brought up represented them at international level in amateurs,boxed pro mainly in USA and was it twice in UK,now lives I think in between Canada and jamaica.Lets be honest England is the forest thing from his mind or he'd live here now his career is over.

Where you are born is what you are.forever.

johnswan1 wrote:Do you think of him as gay or straight?

Ive had my doubts.....

Final round wrote:Where you are born is what you are.forever.

Why?

billy nelson wrote:He learnt to box in Canada were he was brought up represented them at international level in amateurs,boxed pro mainly in USA and was it twice in UK,now lives I think in between Canada and jamaica.Lets be honest England is the forest thing from his mind or he'd live here now his career is over.

So he's a pudendum who used the UK to make big bucks then basically.... got it.

Horse wrote:

Final round wrote:Where you are born is what you are.forever.

Why?

Just the way it is Horse.

billy nelson wrote:boxed pro mainly in USA and was it twice in UK,

He had 18 professional fights in the U.K.

Cliff Richard is Indian