BBC asks fans to vote for Britain’s greatest all-British boxing fight

The BBC is asking boxing fans to vote for the greatest all-British fight staged in Britain, with the result due to be announced on BBC Radio 5 Live on Wednesday, 11 November.

The five contests span 55 years, from Henry Cooper’s controversial 1971 points defeat by Joe Bugner to Daniel Dubois’s stoppage of Fabio Wardley in May 2026. The vote closes at noon on 11 November; the result is due during a 19:30 programme featuring BBC boxing pundit Steve Bunce and commentator Mike Costello, alongside Stacey Copeland.

The shortlist also includes Nigel Benn’s 1990 stoppage defeat by Chris Eubank, Lennox Lewis’s 1993 knockout of Frank Bruno and Carl Froch’s disputed 2013 win over George Groves.

Cooper lost his British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight titles to Bugner by a quarter of a point after 15 rounds. Benn was ahead on two scorecards before Eubank stopped him in the ninth round. Lewis recovered from a slow start against Bruno to stop him in the seventh.

Froch-Groves ended when referee Howard Foster stopped the fight in the ninth round, prompting boos and Groves’s protest that he had been deprived of victory. Their rematch at Wembley six months later drew a crowd of 80,000.

The latest bout on the list ended with Dubois stopping Wardley in the 11th round after Wardley had knocked him down twice. The pair fought again five months later, with Dubois winning their rematch in the second round.