The 10 Best UK Fighters of the 21st Century

Considering most on your list are alphabet holders, undisputed World Light-welter Champion, JoshTaylor, is an odd omission!

 

Joshua over Hatton, Frampton, and Degale is a strange one. Are you scoring them on achievements or boxing ability or other / a bit of both?

 

I would say:
1. Calzaghe
2. Froch
3. Hatton
4. Fury
5. Taylor
6. Brook
7. Haye
8. Frampton
9. Warrington
10. Groves or Joshua; can't quite decide

 

Joe Calzaghe
Josh Taylor
Carl Froch
Amir Khan
Ricky Hatton
David Haye
Carl Frampton
Tyson Fury
Kell Brook

Having a top 9 instead of a top 10.

 

An absolute sack of shyte.

I refuse to read further after looking at number 3 who I rate well below Josh Taylor and Ricky Burns in Scotland, Joe Calzaghe, Enzo Mac and Gavin Rees from Wales, Carl Frampton from Ulster and in addition to your English contingent above, I would have Kell Brook well above Joshua who is on the level with Turbo Terry Flanagan and Terence Harper.

 

Certainly a Humble Fisherman trying to create some drama on the forum

 

This list should be anyone who has competed in the twenty-first century. Why make up some other inclusion criteria? If someone has two wins that are better than ten or more wins against inferior opposition then they should be on the list. For that reason, Lennox Lewis should be up there.

 

Scott Harrison was better than both Frampton and Warrington.

 

You can call me Billy Big Bass, because I saw the bait and took the bite without hesitation ffs

 

It was good bait to be fair to the man at the end of the rod.

 

Just because Joshua is heavier than non-heavyweights it doesn't mean his achievements are better than theirs.

He won his belts off one of the worst heavyweight champions of all time (Martin), picked up a vacant belt after going life & death with a 41-year-old, inactive-for-18-months Klitschko who was coming off a schooling from Fury and a timid Parker. He became '2 time' by running away from an unfit 20 stone bloke because he was scared of getting battered and quitting again.

Frampton unified in his division then jumped straight up to the next weight division and beat a champion there in his very next fight.

 

Heavyweight is the most prestigious division, and for good reason, but when we talk about achievements there is no sense in crediting someone on the basis that they are a heavyweight. His record is so carefully put together. It's the two-time thing that gets me. Selling someone as two-time when all they did is lose to a pudding to then beat the pudding who was even fatter by running away from him is so weird.

 

Maybe; I was too young to see him in his prime, I only saw his fights after his long hiatus. I'll take your word for it.