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Without doing too much research I can think of the following :

Henry Armstrong fought Ernie Roderick
Sugar Ray fought Randolph Turpin
Cassius Clay fought Henry Cooper
Bob Foster fought Chris Finnegan
Jose Napoles fought Ralph Charles
Don Curry fought Colin Jones

The various Promoters of those fights got these great fighters over here and either got the British guy at shot at a proper title on home soil or in the case of Cooper / Clay in 1963 the chance of a prestigious win .
Now , for whatever reason , its proving impossible to get even run of the mill guys like Sharmba Mitchell and Vivian Harris to fight here .
Why the hell should that be ?

Percentage of revenue from TV?

Marvin Hagler

I'm not sure he qualifies for 'great' but Winky Wright fought over here a few times fairly recently compared to those names.

Hagler in 1980

Don Curry in 1985

Gerald McCellan in 1991 & 1995

George Foreman (I can't remember the year)

Mike Tyson twice in 2000

There was talk of De La Hoya coming over, but it never materialised.

Lets not forget Lennox Lewis.........

TV stations maybe don´t bring in that much money and spectators in England.

One of the best displays by a visiting fighter has to be Floyd Patterson's fourth-round knockout of Henry Cooper in September 1966 at Wembley. Patterson's fists were a blur that night.

Acelino Freitas versus Peter Buckley and then the Welsh guy?

Zab Judah versus Junior Witter

Mike Tyson of course twice.

Pedrosa was also a GREAT fighter, he'd been unbeaten as champion for a long time.

somerstown wrote:Lets not forget Lennox Lewis.........

who brought the Canadian to Britain?

Go home children.

BubiScholz wrote:

somerstown wrote:Lets not forget Lennox Lewis.........

who brought the Canadian to Britain?

Winky Wright mad ea habit of beating up brits for a while over here.

re the above.
Give it a rest you pair of plonkers his mother took him to canada aged about 6or 7 cos his old man fucked off. He kept getitng in trouble at school so she went to build a new in Canada cos she was struggling over here, he was born in London.

ignorant people.

J wrote:

BubiScholz wrote:

somerstown wrote:Lets not forget Lennox Lewis.........

who brought the Canadian to Britain?

Winky Wright mad ea habit of beating up brits for a while over here.

re the above.
Give it a rest you pair of plonkers his mother took him to canada aged about 6or 7 cos his old man fucked off. He kept getitng in trouble at school so she went to build a new in Canada cos she was struggling over here, he was born in London.

ignorant people.

but didn´t he win the olympic gold medal for Canada?

But he was born here and lived here until he was 12 and by the time he was 22 he was back turning professional.

With a BIG union jack above his head.

Barrera 8)

12 was it i stand corrected i knew it was school age , so inactuality he spent most of his life in britain in addition to being born there. Hmm sounds like the canada hass got a real solid argument.

Johnny Tapia.

Klitschkos

Luan Krasniqi

BubiScholz wrote:Luan Krasniqi

Annabel Croft really ought to stay off the sunbed.

DavidPayne wrote:Annabel Croft really ought to stay off the sunbed.

bennie wrote:

BubiScholz wrote:Luan Krasniqi

He is unbeaten in Britain and against British boxers.

BubiScholz wrote:

bennie wrote:

BubiScholz wrote:Luan Krasniqi

He is unbeaten in Britain and against British boxers.

Who's the fit bird?

my ex-girlfriend.