Top five postwar British boxers – where does Carl Froch come now?

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Lennox Lewis: W41 L2 D1

Canadian, Jamaican, British – does it matter? He flew the flag for the country of his birth and beat a prime, if cut-hampered, Vitali Klitschko, got the better of Evander Holyfield and finished off the fading legend that was Mike Tyson. A top 10, all-time heavyweight contender.

Carl Froch: W33 L2

Would not dodge a tank. Jean Pascal, Jermain Taylor, Mikkel Kessler (twice), Arthur Abraham, Glen Johnson, Andre Ward, Lucian Bute. George Groves (twice). Enough said. Has just leapfrogged Joe Calzaghe – who would have been favourite to beat him. As honest a fighter as we have ever seen in a British ring.

Joe Calzaghe: W46 L0

Unbeaten – and that’s the end of it, whatever the quality of some opponents, even the remains of Roy Jones Jr. A phenomenally quick-fisted, unorthodox boxer with a huge heart, he hit a peak in destroying the unbeaten American Jeff Lacy. Always found a way to win.

Ken Buchanan: W61 L8

The best Scot of them all, an undisputed world champion in a strong era and a hall-of-famer. Don’t be blindsided by his fouled defeat by Roberto Durán at the Garden in 1972; it was a good scrap but he was losing.

Nigel Benn: W42 L5

The king of the tear-ups, who brought more excitement to the ring than any fighter of his era – even Ricky Hatton – most tragically on the night he beat Gerald McClellan. Linked for all time to Chris Eubank, Michael Watson and Steve Collins.

The other contenders Howard Winstone, Naseem Hamed, Chris Eubank, Ricky Hatton, Randolph Turpin, John Conteh, Amir Khan, Lloyd Honeyghan, John H Stracey, Alan Minter, Frank Bruno. For the purposes of Britishness, Barry McGuigan and Steve Collins do not qualify