Great Britain's best boxing year ever!

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Okay thanks amateur so world champs don't count as World champs what was Hatton then between the years of 2001-2004.

A fringe title holder with World Title potential. You can try to sell it anyway you want (see threads about Antonio Tarver's IBO title challenge) but if it's not one of the big four, it's not really recognised.

John Simpson then

HAHAHAHAHAHA You got me !!! Sorry Simpson, i just dont rate Matthews, i think Simpson would beat him in a re match.

Totally agree, I thought that Simpson really pushed Matthews and if the ref was keeping a proper eye on Matthews he'd have lost a point or two for sure. And as it was in Matthews' back yard he got a generous shake of the scores as well. Matthews' gutter boxing style grates with me, same as Bernard Hopkins' does.

Chech this out I've been doing research.

Someone at the boxrec forum has calculated the average rank of world title fight losers in 2006.

This is working on the theory that the higher the rank of the title loser, the more credible and competativeness etc. of the fights.

And the results were:

IBF: 10.47 (from 13.51)
WBC: 10.86 (from 9.83)
IBO: 11.15 (from 23.26)
WBO: 16.32 (from 17.11)
WBA: 28.57 (from 17.02)

EBU: 51.12 (from 34.4)
Commonwealth: 51.55 (from 62.10) !!!

Champs Like Wladimir Klitschko, Antonio Tarver, Tomasz Adamek and Ricky Hatton all hold IBO World Champion belts and this shows that the IBO is on the way up.

http://www.boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49667