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Decy

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This is not about great fighters or top 10 lists or even necessarily good fighters but guys you supported for no apparent reason.

For me in no particular order.
Dave Boy Green
Rocky Juarez
Colin Jones(maybe my all time favourite)
Steve Robinson

To start with all good but not great.
 
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Domestically off the top of my head.

Rocky Kelly - all action welterweight from the 80s.
Pat Clinton - stylish Flyweight from the 1980s
Steve Foster - all action fighter from 1990s
Ensleigh Bingham - ditto
Carl Thompson - no explaination needed
Dennis Andries - 175lber who won fights on raw strength and courage (pre. Kronk)
Mark Kaylor - real up and down 100% action fighter. Good boxer but liked a scrap.
Andy Holigan - big punching (at that level) 140lber

I'm sure I've missed a few but although none of those boxers in that list are "greats" they were all very good fighters who fought to British title level and beyond.
 
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i found myself wearing a viking helmet in the crowd on the night steve foster fought chris pyatt....95 (??)....benn v collins was main event and sugar boy malinga was on the bill...and herbie hide...stacked card

i loved watching steve foster...remember him shouting at winky wright in the 5th round when he was getting beat..shouting at him "come on, that all you got...come on"
 
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GazOC said:
Domestically off the top of my head.

Rocky Kelly - all action welterweight from the 80s.
Pat Clinton - stylish Flyweight from the 1980s
Steve Foster - all action fighter from 1990s
Ensleigh Bingham - ditto
Carl Thompson - no explaination needed
Dennis Andries - 175lber who won fights on raw strength and courage (pre. Kronk)
Mark Kaylor - real up and down 100% action fighter. Good boxer but liked a scrap.
Andy Holigan - big punching (at that level) 140lber

I'm sure I've missed a few but although none of those boxers in that list are "greats" they were all very good fighters who fought to British title level and beyond.
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Thompson v Andries would of been amazing.
 
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Colin Jones reminds me of Froch in some ways not so much his style of fighting but in the way he cold bloodily hunted you down he had that Carl like mental certainty that he was tougher than you.He was also if my memory is correct said by Ring Magazine to be the best WW of the eighties not to win the title which if you consider how stacked the division was is some accolade.
 
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I'm not judging you, but I find it incredibly hard to believe anyone could love Rocky Juarez. Arguably the most frustrating fighter of the last decade to watch.

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