10 best heavyweights of the 2000s

Lewis
Vitali
Wlad
Brewster
Valuev
Byrd
Ruiz
Peter
Ibragimov
RJJ

 

1. Wlad
2. Lennox (wasnt around that long in the 2000's)
3. Vitali
...............

 

i was gonna say brewster and byrd and maybe ruiz to boot, but hard to rank just because they were champs.

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl thanks for that! :good

 

Pretty crap list actually isn't it. Pretty weak decade

 

Wladimir
Vitali
Lennox (although he was only 6-1 in the decade, clearly accomplished enough to make #3)

Then in no order:
Brewster
Byrd
Ruiz
Peter
Rahman
Chagaev
Valuev

 

Man what a shitty decade for heavyweight boxing. So shitty that I completely grew oblivious to the division. No lie.

 

Lewis and Haye are the only HWs worth mentioning. Both top 10 ATG British warriours, and no-one else comes close to their greatness. :bbb

 

1. Lewis
2. Vitali
3. Wlad
4. Toney
5. Byrd
6. Ruiz
7. Rahman
8. Chagaev
9. Tua
10. Peter

 

I would count Haye in Hw fighters of 2010s

 

1. Wlad
2. Vitali
3. Lewis (H2H number 1 but wasn't aroung for too long in the 2000s)

4. Chris Byrd
5. David Haye (not resume-wise but he's clearly better than anyone from 6 to 10, H2H I've got him on #4)
6. James Toney
7. Sultan Ibragimov
8. Nikolay Valuev
9. Eddie Chambers
10. Hasim Rahman


EDIT: Povetkin does not deserve to be on any list. Throwing his fight against the HW champion in the trash just like that is a disgrace.

 

Head to head:

1. SNV
2. Vitali
3. Lennox
4. Wlad
5. Haye
6. Povetkin
7. Chagaev
8. Liakhovich
9. Maskaev
10. Corrie Sanders

 

Eddie Chambers./

 

It's quite a good era really when you look at it from afar. You have probably 3 of the top 20 all time HW's. I feel Vitali can crack the top 20 if he beats Adamek. As well as that you also have the likes of Solis, Haye, Adamek, Helenius, Povetkin, Juan Carlos Gomez, Briggs, Rahman, lyakhovic, Tua, Sanders, Maskaev, Toney etc.

I'm probably missing a quite a few others but I would go as far as to say all of the above would be a tough fight for anybody in the history of the sport.