When Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua finally share a ring, it will be the biggest all-British fight in a generation and a chance for both men to strengthen their place in the country's boxing history. Anyone studying the Fury Joshua odds is weighing up two of the most successful heavyweights Britain has produced. But how do they compare with the very best British fighters at any weight? These five set the standard.

Lennox Lewis

Lewis is the obvious place to start. Born in West Ham, he won Olympic super-heavyweight gold for Canada in 1988 before turning professional and fighting under the British flag. He beat Evander Holyfield in their 1999 rematch to become undisputed heavyweight champion, then added wins over Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko.

He lost only twice as a professional, to Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman, and beat both men in rematches. He retired as champion in 2004, which very few heavyweights have managed.

Joe Calzaghe

Calzaghe never lost. He won the WBO super-middleweight title by beating Chris Eubank in 1997, held it for more than a decade and retired with 46 wins from 46 fights.

His best work came late in his career. He outclassed the unbeaten American Jeff Lacy in 2006, then outpointed Mikkel Kessler in front of more than 50,000 at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in 2007. A year later he moved up to light heavyweight and beat Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr in the United States. That Cardiff venue, now called the Principality Stadium, is where Fury and Joshua are due to meet.

Jimmy Wilde

Wilde fought more than a century ago, yet his reputation has barely faded. A former miner from Tylorstown in the Rhondda, he was so slight that he regularly gave away weight to his opponents, which earned him the nickname the Mighty Atom.

He hit far harder than his frame suggested and had well over 100 professional fights. In 1916 he became the first officially recognised world flyweight champion, and historians still regularly rank him as the finest flyweight there has been.

Naseem Hamed

Hamed brought something new to British boxing. The Sheffield southpaw fought with his hands low, swayed away from punches at angles no coach would teach, and made his ring walks into a show of their own.

He was 21 when he stopped Steve Robinson in the rain at Cardiff Arms Park in 1995 to win the WBO featherweight title, and he later added the IBF and WBC belts. He finished with 36 wins from 37 fights, 31 of them by knockout, and his only defeat came against Marco Antonio Barrera in Las Vegas in 2001.

Ken Buchanan

Buchanan is the least famous name on this list at home, but he was rated very highly in America. The Edinburgh lightweight travelled to Puerto Rico in 1970 and beat Ismael Laguna on a split decision in fierce heat to become world champion.

That win led the Boxing Writers Association of America to name him its fighter of the year, ahead of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. He lost his title to Roberto Duran at Madison Square Garden in 1972, but his place among Britain's finest has never been in much doubt.

Where Fury and Joshua fit

Neither man has an unbeaten record like Calzaghe's, and both have lost twice to Oleksandr Usyk. Their achievements in the sport's glamour division still put them close to this company.

Fury travelled to Dusseldorf in 2015 to end Wladimir Klitschko's long reign, then beat Deontay Wilder twice in Las Vegas. Joshua won Olympic gold in London in 2012, stopped Klitschko at Wembley five years later and has been a unified world champion twice.

What each man lacks is a win over the other. Lewis, Calzaghe and Hamed all secured their status by beating the best opponents available to them, and Fury and Joshua have each spent years as the other's most obvious test. For fans looking to bet on the fight, the result could decide which of the two earns a place alongside the five above.

Betting is for over-18s only.