Greatest British HW of all time? Vote NOW!

[Beanflicker]

Who was it, and don't say Lennox because Lennox was Canadian hahaha

[mrbig1]

Who was it, and don't say Lennox because Lennox was Canadian hahaha

Lennox is as British as the Queen.

[X]

for the real boxing historians amongst you .... I nominate Tom Cribb or Jem Mace

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Any man who is born less than 2 miles from were I grew up and supports the same football team as the Queen is as English as anyone you could care to mention.

Nice try though.

[Beanflicker]

Any man who is born less than 2 miles from were I grew up and supports the same football team as the Queen is as English as anyone you could care to mention.

Nice try though.

When you learn to box in another country and go as far as representing that country in the olympics, I think that DQs you!

Lennox's genetics are from Jamaica and he grew up and learned to box in Canada... just because he talks with an accent and likes football doesn't mean the British can claim him.

[IamInuit]

for the real boxing historians amongst you .... I nominate Tom Cribb or Jem Mace

Mace was probably 100 years ahead of his time.

The Question says British and not English so I'm going with one of Maces students Sam Langford. In the early 1900's Canada was as British as Britain and flew the Union Jack. Our Army was British right down to food rations and we took orders from Britain including going to war.

[Beanflicker]

The Question says British and not English so I'm going with one of Maces students Sam Langford. In the early 1900's Canada was as British as Britain and flew the Union Jack. Our Army was British right down to food rations and we took orders from Britain including going to war.

Again, the British piggy-backing on OUR fucking boxing glory.

[IamInuit]

The Question says British and not English so I'm going with one of Maces students Sam Langford. In the early 1900's Canada was as British as Britain and flew the Union Jack. Our Army was British right down to food rations and we took orders from Britain including going to war.

Again, the British piggy-backing on OUR fucking boxing glory.

lol

[Beanz]

The Question says British and not English so I'm going with one of Maces students Sam Langford. In the early 1900's Canada was as British as Britain and flew the Union Jack. Our Army was British right down to food rations and we took orders from Britain including going to war.

Again, the British piggy-backing on OUR fucking boxing glory.

Surely somebodies birthplace and who they identify themselves as is what determines their nationality not where they spent the second decade of their life ? Lewis did not feel celebrated by the ignorant Canadians who could not get past his skin colour despite what he did for your country after only being there 6 years.


"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing."

Lennox Lewis

[Beanflicker]

Surely somebodies birthplace and who they identify themselves as is what determines their nationality not where they spent the second decade of their life ? Lewis did not feel celebrated by the ignorant Canadians who could not get past his skin colour despite what he did for your country after only being there 6 years.


"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing."

Lennox Lewis

Yeah, because us Canadians have such a long history of slavery and racial prejudice against blacks... oh wait, that's right, Canada isn't part of America! Silly me!

And Lennox claiming to be British is purely financial. Boxing just wasn't big in Canada like it was across the pond. He didn't get the support in Canada, so THEN he decided he wanted to be British.

If he wanted to be British, he would have fought for England's olympic team. Instead, he represented Canada. You can't just win learn to box in a country and then win a gold medal for that country, and then be like "oh fuck that country, I'm actually British". Lennox is a product of Canada. When you look at a product and it says "MADE IN CHINA" or "MADE IN THE USA", it's a product of that nation. Maybe the raw materials were created in another country, but the finished product was produced by that nation. Word is born.

And yeah I did just compare a human being to Chinese trinket. So what?

[Master]

The answer is Lennox Lewis, Bruno and then Cooper.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Any man who is born less than 2 miles from were I grew up and supports the same football team as the Queen is as English as anyone you could care to mention.

Nice try though.

When you learn to box in another country and go as far as representing that country in the olympics, I think that DQs you!

Lennox's genetics are from Jamaica and he grew up and learned to box in Canada... just because he talks with an accent and likes football doesn't mean the British can claim him.

Are you Canadian??

[Beanz]

Surely somebodies birthplace and who they identify themselves as is what determines their nationality not where they spent the second decade of their life ? Lewis did not feel celebrated by the ignorant Canadians who could not get past his skin colour despite what he did for your country after only being there 6 years.


"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing."

Lennox Lewis

Yeah, because us Canadians have such a long history of slavery and racial prejudice against blacks... oh wait, that's right, Canada isn't part of America! Silly me!

And Lennox claiming to be British is purely financial. Boxing just wasn't big in Canada like it was across the pond. He didn't get the support in Canada, so THEN he decided he wanted to be British.

If he wanted to be British, he would have fought for England's olympic team. Instead, he represented Canada. You can't just win learn to box in a country and then win a gold medal for that country, and then be like "oh fuck that country, I'm actually British". Lennox is a product of Canada. When you look at a product and it says "MADE IN CHINA" or "MADE IN THE USA", it's a product of that nation. Maybe the raw materials were created in another country, but the finished product was produced by that nation. Word is born.

And yeah I did just compare a human being to Chinese trinket. So what?

The thing is it is not about the British claiming Lennox Lewis, being English is something Lennox has claimed for himself. Not that it is at all arrogant for you to start a poll from Canada on a British website about the greatest British Heavyweight of all time and then leave out A British born heavyweight who claims to be British himself. If I did not know better I would think you are trolling. You have made it into an Aunt Sally ( what you are so fond of calling a straw man) argument by introducing this little irrelevance

"Yeah, because us Canadians have such a long history of slavery and racial prejudice against blacks... oh wait, that's right, Canada isn't part of America! Silly me!"

Did I ever say such a thing? Why would I mistake Canada as part of America ? and what the hell does Lennox Genetics coming from Jamaica have to do with anything? Do you think everyone in Britain is white with a bowler hat? We don't all look like Sean O'Sullivan you know


Jim Cornall, Canada but originally English: Now that I live in Canada, you are usually here referred to as: "Canadian Lennox Lewis who now lives in England." How do you feel about this? Do you consider yourself completely English now?
Lennox Lewis: I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing.

[Freedom]

Who was it, and don't say Lennox because Lennox was Canadian hahaha

Lennox is as British as the Queen.

I remember were rumors about him being a queen, but he's Jamaican not British.

[Beanz]

Who was it, and don't say Lennox because Lennox was Canadian hahaha

Lennox is as British as the Queen.

I remember were rumors about him being a queen, but he's Jamaican not British.

Was he born in Jamaica?