My own heavyweight of the year list. Volume 1 1960 - 1989

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  1. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As it's read. For each year I'll put down whom I considered to be the outstanding heavyweight of the particular years stated


    1960 Floyd Patterson
    1961 Sonny Liston
    1962 Sonny Liston
    1963 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
    1964 Muhammad Ali
    1965 Muhammad Ali
    1966 Muhammad Ali
    1967 Muhammad Ali
    1968 Joe Frazier
    1969 Joe Frazier
    1970 Muhammad Ali *
    1971 Joe Frazier
    1972 Muhammad Ali
    1973 George Foreman
    1974 Muhammad Ali
    1975 Muhammad Ali
    1976 George Foreman
    1977 Ken Norton
    1978 Larry Holmes
    1979 Larry Holmes
    1980 Larry Holmes
    1981 Larry Holmes
    1982 Larry Holmes
    1983 Larry Holmes
    1984 Pinklon Thomas
    1985 Michael Spinks
    1986 Mike Tyson
    1987 Mike Tyson
    1988 Mike Tyson
    1989 Mike Tyson


    * Some may wonder why I did n't have Frazier for this year,as he unified the title. Ali had the better resume,even if he'd only been back for the last couple of months of the year.
     
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  2. My dinner with Conteh

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    Liston is a far more worthy winner of 1960 than Ali is of 1970.
     
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  3. Stevie G

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    Liston really made an impression that year,but I had it edged for Floyd because of the emphatic way that he beat his 'Ingo' demons from the year before.

    When Ali came back in 1970,he beat Jerry Quarry,whom apart from Ali and Frazier themselves,was the top man around. Plus Oscar Bonavena.
    Frazier beat Jimmy Ellis,who was en par with Quarry,then he knocked out Bob Foster,who was no way as dangerous as Bonavena.
     
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  4. My dinner with Conteh

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    Ellis beat Quarry and Bonavena, that's why he was in a position to have the fight with Frazier. Joe's performances vs Jimmy and Bob Foster were clearly more impressive than Ali's over Quarry and Bonavena. If the roles were reversed there's no way Joe would win your 1970 list.
     
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  5. Stevie G

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    I would have recognised Frazier's achievements had the roles indeed been reversed. After Frazier beat him,Ellis was no longer the same. Indeed he went to the canvas twice against our own Joe 'Reggie Perrin two black eyes' Bugner in '74. Quarry was still dangerous throughout the first three or four years of the seventies.
     
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  6. Foreman Hook

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    Mint idea m8, your list i agree with. When you doing volume 2, 1990-2011??
     
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  7. Stevie G

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    Later today or tomorrow Hook.
     
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  8. My dinner with Conteh

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    I bet Ali wins at least one of them. :hey
     
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  9. Stevie G

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    :lol: ;)
     
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  10. Stevie G

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    Funnily enough,Ring Magazine voted Ali their overall fighter of the year in '78. I disagreed. Holmes accomplished more in the heavies that year,imo. He beat a still dangerous Ken Norton,while Muhammad only levelled the score against a man whom he should never lost to in the first place.
     
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  11. Mendoza

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    Pretty good. Why Spinks in 1985, if you did not have Holmes in 1984?
     
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  12. Unforgiven

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    It has to be Frazier for 1970.
    He unified the title by KOing Ellis. And both him and Ellis had already beat the two guys Ali fought at the end of the year !

    This has been said already in this thread, but it needs to be said.
     
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  13. Stevie G

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    Aside from beating an old Mike Weaver,Pinklon Thomas,my previous year's winner did n't do anything else. Spinks seemed the logical choice for '85.
     
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  14. Stevie G

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    Good point,Unforgiven,but I can only repeat what I said earlier.
    There's an extremely good case for Muhammad and Joe tying for the 1970 honours. Taking it on a year by year basis,Ali finishes ahead of Joe for that year,imo.
     
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  15. mike huntt

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    this guys a godddamn ****in ******
     
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