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foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 08 May 2021, 17:42
by margaret thatcher
canelo has

callum
liam
khan
rhodes
hatton
fielding

and about to have bjs.....that's 6 now and soon to be 7


what other guys are up there?

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 08 May 2021, 18:14
by skanksta
El Maravilla - he came over to smash up loads of domestic Brits when he was learning and then beat a load more @ WT level when he was a star. :bag:

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 08 May 2021, 18:18
by KiwiRider
I'm reminded of Linares chugging through Mitchell, Crolla x 2, a brief break to beat Cano, then back to blighty to squeak past Campbell.
It was a quality late career run. :salut:

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 08 May 2021, 18:22
by coghaugen11
McCallum

-Mannion
-Graham
-Collins
-Watson

And
-Paul Kelly
-Ken Beattie
-Steve Cooney
At Comm Games


Oops, McCallum is Scottish

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 09 May 2021, 00:09
by Ruthless-RKO
BJS now as well for Canelo

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 09 May 2021, 04:42
by DrDuke
Canelo is a britsecutioner.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 09:04
by My Name Is Earl
Winky Wright outclassed Bingham, Foster and Dodson, one after the other over a 12 month period. :box:

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 09:15
by orbtastic
Then Mpush Makambi smashed all 3.

Ajif Djelti is another, albeit he lost to Jones & Dunne.

Rothmann has five, I think.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 09:19
by orbtastic
Very minor baubles though.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 10:38
by mickey1975
KiwiRider wrote: 08 May 2021, 18:18 I'm reminded of Linares chugging through Mitchell, Crolla x 2, a brief break to beat Cano, then back to blighty to squeak past Campbell.
It was a quality late career run. :salut:
He squeezed by Luke in America.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 10:44
by margaret thatcher
which brit has the most world title defenses vs brits?

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 11:09
by orbtastic
Irish so not foreign per se, Collins has 7 title wins over UK/English fighters.

Benn is 3-3-1 against fighters from the British Isles in WT fights

Eubank 7-5-2 against fighters from the British Isles in WT fights

Robinson 5-1 against British fighters in WT fights

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 10 May 2021, 11:40
by coghaugen11
Calzaghe has Eubank, Reid, Starie, Woodhall and Kessler (half-Brit).

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 16 May 2021, 20:56
by coghaugen11
Canada’s Lennox Lewis has a few;

Gary Mason
Glenn McCrory
Derek Williams
Frank Bruno
Henry Akinwande

James Oyebola
Aneurin Evans
-Comm Games

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 16 May 2021, 20:57
by margaret thatcher
i thought he was a jamaican

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 02:42
by mickey1975
American Chris Eubank beat a few.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 02:50
by bigjack
coghaugen11 wrote: 10 May 2021, 11:40 Calzaghe has Eubank, Reid, Starie, Woodhall and Kessler (half-Brit).
Calzaghe was born in England

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 04:56
by mickey1975
bigjack wrote: 17 May 2021, 02:50
coghaugen11 wrote: 10 May 2021, 11:40 Calzaghe has Eubank, Reid, Starie, Woodhall and Kessler (half-Brit).
Calzaghe was born in England
And is a brit anyway if classed as Welsh.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 05:07
by The Gratest
In WBO title fights, Harry Simon beat:

Kevin Lueshing
Wayne Alexander

Prior to winning the title he beat:
Paul Wesley
Del Bryan
George Richards
Kasi Kaihau

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 05:10
by bigjack
mickey1975 wrote: 17 May 2021, 04:56
bigjack wrote: 17 May 2021, 02:50
coghaugen11 wrote: 10 May 2021, 11:40 Calzaghe has Eubank, Reid, Starie, Woodhall and Kessler (half-Brit).
Calzaghe was born in England
And is a brit anyway if classed as Welsh.
exactly :TU:

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 08:53
by Kit
Ali had 6

Cooper x2
Bugner x2
Dunn
London

However 1 each of Cooper and Bugner were non title.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 09:02
by Kit
Sumbu Kalamby beat

Herol Graham x2
Paul Wesley
John Ashton
Steve Collins
Mike McCallum

Although our Mike beat him in the return and he lost to Chris Pyatt in a tight one.

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 17:33
by dr_devious
Steve Collins isn't British, neither is Sean Mannion

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 17 May 2021, 18:53
by Darcy Delaney
Sebastian Rothmann beat 6 British fighters but not all in title fights

Re: foreign champs with most title wins over brits

Posted: 18 May 2021, 05:05
by Coco
coghaugen11 wrote: 08 May 2021, 18:22 McCallum

-Mannion
-Graham
-Collins
-Watson

And
-Paul Kelly
-Ken Beattie
-Steve Cooney
At Comm Games


Oops, McCallum is Scottish
He is not bloody Scottish you idiot!

He is from Weston Super Mare!! :box: