{"id":400365,"date":"2026-01-08T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:39:07","slug":"teddy-atlas-names-the-top-10-british-boxers-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400365\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas Names The Top 10 British Boxers Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/teddy-atlas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Atlas<\/a> has been around boxing for decades and has many considered perspectives on the best to ever do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/26913913\/teddy-atlas-getting-international-boxing-hall-fame-broadcaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The American has worked as a trainer and manager as well as a pundit,<\/a> and most notably guided Michael Moorer to a heavyweight title win, helped to develop a young Mike Tyson under Cus D\u2019Amato, and coached Hall of Famer Tim Bradley when not working with fighters like Alexander Povetkin and Oleksandr Gvozdyk.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas is also a keen boxing historian who can talk about fighters from 100 years ago as knowledgeably as those fighting today.<\/p>\n<p>As such, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/evQGHx_xIic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking his own YouTube channel<\/a>, Atlas ran down his top 10 British boxers of all time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber 10 Ricky Hatton, number 9 John Conte, number 8 Randy Turpin, number 7 Ken Buchannen. number 6 Lennox Lewis, [5] Joe Calzaghe, number 4 Jack Kid Berg, number 3 Ted Kid Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber two he won three full weight classes and out of order. Middleweight, jump up to heavyweight, back down to light heavyweight, he knew the anatomy, he was ahead of his time. Bob Fitzsimmons, they called it his special solar plexus punch, all the air would come out, that\u2019s what Bob Fitzsimmons would do to many fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber one, drum roll, Jimmy Wild. Great flyweight, 153 total fights, 137 wins, 6 losses, 2 draws, great flyweight champion, 101 knockouts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas has been around boxing for decades and has many considered perspectives on the best to ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-400365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}