List Your Favorite British Boxers

[Daniel 7]

Yep Bruno was great. Had some good fights and KOs. He was quite robotic but he outboxed most of his opponents and had a wicked ramrod jab. I think he gets a bad rap and isn't remembered as fondly as he should be - or at least taken as seriously as he should be. I remember his losses to Witherspoon and Bonecrusher Smith. Heartbreaking. I watched him win the world title against McCall in a pub in London and it was ****ing epic. Amazing atmosphere.

McCall fight was a mental night out from about 7pm with the fight on at about 4am IIRC - I drank myself sober that night! I was at Uni, we piled into a mates' house - there must have been about 75 people in a living room!

I remember the Witherspoon fight too - he was ahead on all the cards as well. If it had been a 12 rounder, he would have been the champ then!

Frank was almost too muscly too move, he had some physique on him.

[Shaggy]

McCall fight was a mental night out from about 7pm with the fight on at about 4am IIRC - I drank myself sober that night! I was at Uni, we piled into a mates' house - there must have been about 75 people in a living room!

I remember the Witherspoon fight too - he was ahead on all the cards as well. If it had been a 12 rounder, he would have been the champ then!

Frank was almost too muscly too move, he had some physique on him.

He didn't have the killer instinct did he. I remember he could've finished Witherspoon off but didn't. He also rocked Lewis and even more memorably proper rocked Tyson. I remember Harry Carpenter screaming "HE'S HURT TYSON! HE'S HURT TYSON!".

[Chazza]

Yep, he was always holding back. I loved how he played heel though and lapped up the crowd whether they were booing him or cheering him. That smirk and side on stance when he'd hit his gloves together just before the fight always made me laugh.

Aye I loved Eubank, Benn and Watson. What a time to be into boxing.

Good point Dan7 about everyone watching McGuigan. Like all fights back then, the Benn/Watson/Eubank fights were all live on ITV and it seemed ****ing everybody was watching. Satellite/PPV TV has really damaged boxing (and football, and cricket).

The first Benn v Eubank fight was on a Sunday night (Sunday night FFS! ) in November 1990. Remember staying up late to watch it before school the next day

[Shaggy]

I thought so. I'm sure another one of those super fights was either midweek live on ITV or a Friday night.

I remember fights like Bruno v Bugner at White Hart Lane being live on telly too.

[Daniel 7]

The first Benn v Watson was a sunday night as well wasn't it?