Lightweight British Ranking top 5?

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Lightweight British Ranking top 5?

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Will be interesting this one. Can I have your top 5 British Lightweight Rankings. There is certainly lots of good matches to make.
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Murray -British Champion and Beat Meager better then Former British champ John Thaxton
Thaxton- Former undefeated British Champion fighting for European title.
Amir Khan - Commonwealth Champion
Martin Gethin - English Champion
Lee Mcallister - Due to fight Murray just beat Craig Docerhty.
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its a tough one

thaxton, Earl & khan all been whooped

murray still relatively untested

very hard to rate
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Thaxton is no1.

I think Murray would beat him, but the fact remains he's active and Romanov aside was cleaning up the domestic scene.

Plus he fights for the European title next again..
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G0mez wrote:Thaxton is no1.

I think Murray would beat him, but the fact remains he's active and Romanov aside was cleaning up the domestic scene.

Plus he fights for the European title next again..
prescott aside khan was cleaning up

he's beat more top ten british lightweights than all of them
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sweetscience wrote:
G0mez wrote:Thaxton is no1.

I think Murray would beat him, but the fact remains he's active and Romanov aside was cleaning up the domestic scene.

Plus he fights for the European title next again..
prescott aside khan was cleaning up

he's beat more top ten british lightweights than all of them
Khan and Thaxton have both beaten 3 top 10 British Lightweights recently, or 2 if you had Lawton outside the top 10.
Of course if we're looking over a full career Thaxton has beaten way more.

I'd have:
Murray
Thaxton
Khan
Limond
Gethin

If Limond had of been more active recently and had got that win against Earl plus another I'd of considered putting him above Khan, afterall Khan should of been counted out agaist him.
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the lightweight divison is 100% there for the taking by Murray

but.... i dont think we can give him the Number 1 spot by default, he needs to step up first
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Thaxton
Murray
Khan
McAllister
Gethin
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Post by Asterix »

They really need to fight it out. Is Lee McAllister dropping back down to lightweight?
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British lightweight scene is very weak at the moment even though there's some good domestic matchups available I can't see any of them winning a world title unless it's some kind of paper WBO/WBU type of title.

Anyway

1. Thaxton
2. Murray
3. Khan
4. Limond
5. Gethin

Not one of them stands out and I think they are all capable of beating each other.
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