Top 15 Heavyweights ever?

01 Louis
02 Ali

03 Holmes
04 Foreman
05 Lewis

06 Frazier
07 marciano
08 Holyfield

09 Johnson
10 Tyson

11 Dempsey
12 liston
13 Jeffries
14 Wlad

15 Walcott
16 charles
17 Schmeling

18 Patterson
19 Wills
20 Bowe
21 Vitali

 

1.ali
2.louis
3.foreman

4.holmes

5.lewis

6.liston
7.frazier

8.marciano
9.holyfield
10.johnson

11.patterson
12.walcott
13.bowe
14.norton
15.charles

i dont include anyone who is not retired, holy has beeen retired since valuev imo.

 

Edit

 

Blue, I believe are unjustifiably low for my liking, while Red are too high for my liking.

 

1 Ali
2 Louis
3 Marciano
4 Foreman
5 Holmes
6 Lewis
7 Johnson
8 Frazier
9 Holyfield
10 Tyson
11 Liston
12 Jeffries
13 Dempsey
14 Wlad
15 Schmelling
16 Bowe
17 Wills
18 Charles
19 Patterson
20 Walcott
21 Vitali
22 Langford
23 Norton
24 Tunney
25 Sullivan

 

I'm staggered at the choice of liston for number 3!

I've posted my top 20 or so countless times on here and the names seem pretty much the same, just in a different order.

 

Liston, clearly, doesn't belong in a top 5 heavyweight list.

 

1 Muhammad Ali
2 Joe Louis
3 Jack Johnson
4 George Foreman
5 Lennox Lewis
6 Larry Holmes
7 Rocky Marciano
8 Mike Tyson
9 Joe Frazier
10 Wlad Klitschko
11 Evander Holyfield
12 Ezzard Charles
13 James Jeffries
14 Jack Dempsey
15 Harry Wills
16 Riddick Bowe
17 Gene Tunney
18 Sonny Liston
19 Sam Langford
20 John L Sullivan


can't really find room for jersey nor floyd which depresses me slightly.

 

Schmeling's absence should depress you as well....I like to flop them in for Sullivan, Sam & Gene, either way nice list...I love Johnson at 3 even though I don't place him that high personally.

 

yeah they're my next 3 actually.

I rate Johnson's resume higher than most do, I can accept that but I can also comfortably defend my position so I'm OK with it.

Sullivan set the bar for greatness as a HW, 7 years as undefeated champ is ridiculous. Anyone who surpasses the "bar setter" is my definition of a divisional ATG.

Gene I rank pretty highly h2h, his skillset is quite unique and he was proven.

Sam, I guess his resume speaks for itself and then it depends on how you see the coloured championship during the time of the colour bar. On occasion it surpassed the world championship imo and whilst Johnson was inactive and out of shape, Sam was destroying the top 5 as coloured champion.

I don't really hold a flame for lineal championships, it doesn't really tell the story for me. I appreciate it does for others, I just heartedly disagree.

 

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Marciano
4. Johnson
5. Lewis
6. Dempsey
7. Foreman
8. Holmes
9. Frazier
10. Tunney
11. Charles
12. Jefferies
13. Holyfield
14. Liston
15. Tyson

 

I'm still working my way through the heavy's but from what I know I would definitely have Dempsey and Marciano above Liston and Walcott above Charles and Patterson.