After a long time, boxing has come back to life in Britain with a new generation of fighters competing in other countries. It involves interested fighters from the current heavyweight champions to the other emerging fighters, and they demonstrate impressive skills and the true spirit of the game.
This article aims at evaluating the best British boxers at the moment, their accomplishments and approaches to the sport, and a glimpse at what is to come.
What is Boxing Like in Great Britain?
The sport of boxing is rather popular in Great Britain and the present state of this kind of fight looks very attractive. It is very popular and comprises both men’s and women’s professional and amateur leagues.
It has given newcomers numerous immortals, and today, the talent ranges in various weight categories. Finally, there are professional bouts where the initiative rests with the British Boxing Board of Control to regulate and ensure the safety of the event.
Likewise, the development of grassroots programs and amateur Clubs encourage the youngsters of the countries to take up the sport, and as such the sport remains popular. Now let’s take a look at the best British boxers right now
Ranking The Best 15 British Boxers Right Now
Here are the best 15 British boxers right now, showcasing exceptional talent and achievements in the ring:
Kal Yafai
Division: Super flyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 29, Wins 27, Wins by KO 15, Losses 2
Kal Yafai is a former professional boxer from Great Britain who had a WBA super-flyweight title between 2016 and 2020. He was born June 11 1989 and had an extensive amateur winning record, including competing at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Great Britain and winning silver at the 2010 European Championships in the flyweight division. This makes him one of the world’s top super-flyweight by the leading boxing bodies as of January 2021.
Hamzah Sheeraz
Division: Light middleweight
Boxing record: Total fights 21, Wins 21, Wins by KO 17
Mohammed Hamzah Sheeraz is a professional boxer from Britain born on 25 May 1999, he is the 2022 Commonwealth middleweight title holder. He is currently a professional fighter hailing from Ilford, London, and he began his foray at the professional level at a very tender age of 18 on September 16th, 2017 where he fought against Duane Green in what was a second round TKO. Sherick in the previous fight defeated Tyler Denny in the second round TKO, on 21 September 2024, he was 25 years old.
Hughie Lewis Fury
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 31, Wins 28, Wins by KO 16, Losses 3
Hughie Lewis Fury known as Hughie Fury is a British professional boxer, who was born on September 18, 1994. He fought for the WBO heavyweight title in 2017 and took the British heavyweight title at the national level in 2018.
He joined the senior Scholars’ England team which participated at the 2012 Youth World Championships, where he clinched a super-heavyweight gold, thus becoming the first English boxer to do so.
Daniel Dubois
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 24, Wins 22, Wins by KO 21, Losses 2
Dan Dubois is a well-known British professional boxer in his natural years of birth on the 6th of September 1997. He has been the holder of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavyweight title since June 2024.
Before that he was the WBA heavyweight title (Regular version) champion from 2022 to 2023. At regional level, he managed to clinch several heavyweight championships such as the British and Commonwealth title from 2019 to 2020.
To underline the credentials of the newly appointed Cambridge professor of Architecture, an indication of Dubois’ amateur achievements should suffice: he was five-time national junior champion and the British champion. After his knockout win against Anthony Joshua, his knockout ratio sits at a stunning 95% making him perhaps the best British boxer currently active.
Joe Joyce
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 19, Wins 16, Wins by KO 15, Losses 3
Joe Joyce, nicknamed the Juggernaut is a 39 years old British professional boxer. Having been in the ring for nearly 7 years, his record is as follows: 16 wins, 3 losses; out of the 16 wins 15 were knockouts.
The last time he fought was in a Derek Chisora match where he was knocked out by unanimous decision on 27/7/2024 when he was 38 years old.
Leigh Wood
Divisions: Super bantamweight, Featherweight, Super featherweight
Boxing record: Total fights 31, Wins 28, Wins by KO 17, Losses 3
Leigh Thal is a 36-year-old britischer professional featherweight boxer and the former world champion. Over the almost 13 years of his professional career he has a fighting balance of 28 and 3 and out of 17 knockouts 3 are in his world title fights. Wood won the WBA (Regular) featherweight title from Xu Can as a world champion at the age of 32, and 26 professional bouts when their 12-round confrontation was stopped in the final round.
Sunny Edwards
Division: Flyweight, Super flyweight
Boxing Record: Total fights 22, Wins 21, Wins by KO 4, Losses 1
Sunny Edwards is one of the smooth-moving and highly technical British professional boxers. Flyweight is his category and he has been a holder of the IBF flyweight belt. He won the IBF title in April 2021.
Edwards is well acclaimed because of his boxing intellectualism and flexibility of knowledge as well as his mastery over and against his counterpart and hence the brand of wrestling takes him through in his weight division.
Josh Warrington
Division: Featherweight, Super featherweight
Boxing record: Total fights 36, Wins 31, Wins by KO 8, Losses 4, Draws 1
Josh Warrington is a professional boxer of Britain who is famous for his guts and the elegance he delivers in the ring. Of course it has to be remembered that he was the IBF featherweight title holder and they identified him with an exciting style of the fight and positive attitude towards fans.
Warrington became the first ever Leeds born boxer to win a world title and he was able to do this on a home basis in Leeds.
Warrington is gradually making his way into the fraternity, and he has beaten notable stars like Lee Selby and Carl Frampptfon. His mechanical career character has been defined by his loyalty to the fan base in Leeds.
Billy Joe Saunders
Division: Middleweight, Super middleweight
Boxing record: Total fights 31, Wins 30, Wins by KO 14, Losses 1
Billy Joe Saunders is a 35 year old British professional with quite a career. A two-weight class world champion, he has claimed 2 global champion triumphs. But all that time of 15 years, 6 months, 28 days in the ring has accrued Saunders a record of 30 wins, 1 loss, and 14 of those wins have been knockouts with one of them during the world titles fight.
Saunders after his victory over Rojas had a record of thirty one wins one loss and it was after this fight that he received his first loss after being famously knocked out by Canelo Alvarez which led to a retirement.
Dillian Whyte
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 33, Wins 30, By knockout 20, Losses 3
Surnamed “The Body Snatcher”, Dillian Whyte is a British professional boxer who has displayed stiff punching and has endured a lot of shots in the division of heavyweightBoxing.
He even rose to fame after his battles with reigning world-class athletes and former champions like Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. Whyte has worked for the World Boxing Council as the interim heavyweight world champion. His performance career includes his desire to fulfill a ranking and to compete for the championship of the world.
- Anthony Joshua
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 32, Wins 28, Wins by KO 25, Losses 4
Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer who is also a two time world Heavyweight champion. He has his first title of 2016, where he has been a holder of other titles such as WBA, IBF,WBO, and IBO among others.
Joshua gets credit for not only athleticism, power and strong amateur Background, the Olympic Gold medalist of the Olympics 2012. Some of the fighters that he has faced off include Andy Ruiz Jr, Oleksandr Usyk among others and Tyson Fury. While he has struggled in recent matches, he is still considered one of the boxers of headline news.
Josh Taylor
Division: Light welterweight
Boxing Record: Total fights 21, Wins 19, Wins by KO 13, Losses 2
He had the world championships in the WBA, IBF, and WBC categories. Taylor is noted for his talent and ability of handling most wrestlers, plus his dramatic wins against leading wrestlers. He bagged all the four major world titles in one weight class, becoming the first Scottish boxer to achieve the feat.
While many may have cringed at his split decision victory over Jack Catterall, it’s hard to deny the skills that he possesses.
Lawrence Okolie
Division: cruiserweight
Boxing record: Total fights 21, Wins 20, Wins by KO 15, Losses 1
The “Sauce” standing for Lawrence Okolie, is a 31-year-old British-based professional boxer and a former cruiserweight world champion. Once they have been stripped of the belt: this man Okolie has 20 wins in 21 bouts, having competed in the sport for 7 years and 6 months, 15 knockouts including 2 in the world title fights, making him one of the best British boxers today.
He got the WBO cruiserweight championship belt at the age of 28 years after knocking out Krzysztof Głowacki in the 6 round out 12. The most recent of his fights include a 1st-round KO that he did on His opponent Lukasz Rozanski on 24/05/2024.
Callum ‘Mundo’ Smith
Division: Super middleweight, Light heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 31, Wins 29, Wins by KO 21, Losses 2
Mundo Smith is a British born professional boxer who has taken part in the super middleweight category. He has been a world champion many times wearing the WBA (Super) belt and the WBC Diamond belt.
Smith is well known for his height, his long reach is another vital asset to him which is punching power. Smith lost only once in his career, and this was to Canelo Alvarez. He has been the WBA super-middleweight champion and triumphed in the World Boxing Super Series in 2018. They then proved this by defeating a previous contender Lenin Castillo by knockout in September 2021.
Tyson Fury
Division: Heavyweight
Boxing record: Total fights 36, Wins 34, Wins by KO 24, Losses 1, Draws 1
Tyson Fury is a famous British professional boxer widely recognized by his nickname ‘The Gypsy King’, and the audience loved it. He is the two-time world heavyweight champion and the WBC titleist since his victory over Deontay Wilder in 2020. Fury is seen as a mobile fighter with an untypical style and has proved his ability to conquer personal difficulties as depression. Fury is considered to be the pound-for-pound best boxer in all of Britain.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
When was boxing first contested on the modern Olympic program?
It is worth mentioning that boxing appeared in the list of the modern Olympic Games in 1904.
How many of these fights have taken place Between countries?
Up until now, Anthony Joshua has competed in four international bouts, further substantial fights were held in the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Which boxer has the record of having been the world champion in eight boxing weight classes?
Manny Pacquiao is the only boxer who has clinched the world titles in the eight different categories of weight.
Conclusion
English boxing is strong with the title contenders and prospects of today and tomorrow such as Adam Azim and Ben Whittaker.
Top talents such as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua point to the emergence as one of boxing’s greatest assets. These athletes show great physical and mental strength that is so instrumental in pushing British boxing to its place on the map and inspiring others potential contenders all over the world.
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