Quote Originally Posted by Beanz View Post
What a daft thing to say. So despite Khan being born in England and living in England he apparently is not English according to you. Next you will be telling us you were born in Britain, spent your entire life in Britain but don't consider yourself British :-P and of course Lewis is British he was born and lived in London till he was 12, pretty formative years. The mental gymnastics you have to employ to suggest that all these British boxers, mainly of colour are not British is the same you are using to dismiss Khan. Funny stuff.
I didn't say Khan wasn't English, or any of the others, I said if he can qualify for English, then all the ones I mentioned could qualify for Italy. But you went off piste anyway because it was about Brit v America.
I never claimed anything about Italy or Italian boxers , you used that as a smokescreen to hide from the fact that the top 5 US fighters rank better than the top 5 Brits.
as for Lennox and his "Formative Years", surely from 12 to about 21 or 22 are "Pretty Formative Years" as well , do you not think? also , during his CANADIAN "Formative Years", he learnt to box and represented HIS COUNTRY to become an OLYMPIC CHAMPION. But no, you want to claim he's a Brit. Mental Gymnastics? Talk about the pot calling the kettle Black!!