Nov. 28 was a great day to be a U.K. fight fan.

On the same day, a pair of Brits — Tyson Fury and James DeGale — scored two of the biggest wins of the boxing year, no doubt causing their countrymen to pop a shirt button or three.

And, while on the subject of recent national pride-producing ring performances, a week earlier, Nihonjin squared circle aficionados also had every right to puff out their chests over the showing of Takashi Miura, albeit in a loss.