Ring magazines top 10 UK fighters

[The Wire]

10: Top UK fighters rated by the RING


A weekly boxing list compiled by Michael Rosenthal. This week: Carl Froch, arguably the No. 1 boxer from the United Kingdom, can become a star in his home country by winning the Super Six Boxing Classic. Here are the nine fighters from the UK rated by THE RING plus one more, Junior Witter.

1. Carl Froch, super middleweight (25-0, 20 KOs)
2. Amir Khan, junior welterweight (21-1, 15 KOs)
3. David Haye, heavyweight (22-1, 21 KOs)
4. Ricky Hatton, junior welterweight (45-2, 32 KOs)
5. Junior Witter, junior welterweight (37-3-2, 22 KOs)
6. Kevin Mitchell, junior lightweight (29-0, 22 KOs)
7. Jamie Moore, junior middleweight (32-3, 23 KOs)
8. Matthew Macklin, middleweight (25-2, 18 KOs)
9. Nicky Cook, junior welterweight (37-3-2, 22 KOs)
10. Rendall Munroe, junior feather (19-1, 8 KOs)

Three more: Kell Brook, Nathan Cleverly and John Murray.

Sorry but Haye's an undisputed champion at cruiser, should be higher than Khan who got blasted out in a round 2 fights ago. Froch got kicked all over the ring by Taylor for 12 rounds before, admittedly, coming up with the goods whereas Ricky Hatton's lost two the number one and number two p4p fighters in the world, should be higher. Matthew Macklin's beaten better opposition than Kevin Mitchell including that one round blow out of the Finn as well as 3 round destruction of world rated Wayne El**** so should be above him. Pretty poor list if you ask me.

All the right people though, I guess, just not necessarily in the right order.

[Czarek]

in my opinion it is a nice list, but why haye so good?

[Mugwump]

I don't think it's THAT bad. Froch, Khan, Haye & even Kell Brook all have a lot of potential. Admittedly, some are closer to it than others.

And we also have perhaps the best crop of juniors we've ever had coming through.

Hardly wrist-slashing stuff.