Top Ten Greatest Heavyweights Ever

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  1. beast boxer

    beast boxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    1) Jack Dempsey
    2) Rocky Marciano
    3) Joe Louis
    4) George Foreman
    5) Muhammad Ali
    6) Joe Frazier
    7) Lennox Lewis
    8 ) Gene Tunney
    9) Max Baer
    10) Larry Holmes
     
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  2. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    again. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
     
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  3. beast boxer

    beast boxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    My opinion, what do I know. make your own list.
     
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  4. nikrj

    nikrj Active Member Full Member

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    That's OK. End of the thread.

    :D
     
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  5. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Top 10 in chronological order... Since Johnson......

    Johnson
    Dempsey
    Tunney
    Louis
    Marciano
    Ali
    Foreman
    Holmes
    Tyson
    Lewis

    At the top would be Ali and Louis.
     
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  6. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jack Dempsey
    Wlad
    Jack Johnson
    rocky Marciano
    Ali
    Lewis
    Louis
    Larry Holmes
    John holmes
    John l. Sullivan
     
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  7. 88Chris05

    88Chris05 Active Member Full Member

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    1) Ali 2) Louis 3) Holmes 4) Johnson 5) Jeffries 6) Foreman 7a) Lewis 7b) Tyson 9) Frazier 10) Marciano.

    Been a while since I pondered the Heavies, so could easily swap a few names around if asked on another day.
     
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  8. beast boxer

    beast boxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I thought about john l Sullivan, but I don't really know much about him so I couldn't put him in there
     
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  9. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nicolay Valuev
    Oliver McCall
    Tony Tucker
    George Foreman
    Vitali Klitschko
    David Tua
    Evander Holyfield
    James Smith
    Lennox Lewis
    Henry Akinwande


    Riddick Bowe
    Ikemefula Ibeabuchi
    Mitchell Green
    Lamon Brewster
    Tim Witherspoon
    Ross Puritty
    Corrie Sanders
    James Douglas
    Wladimir Klitschko
    Jameel McCline


    Pinklon Thomas
    Tony Tubbs
    David Haye
    James Tillis
    Jesse Fergusson
    Joe Mesi
    Dominick Guinn
    Nate Miller
    Bert Cooper
    Orlin Norris
     
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  10. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    The Greatest... as of my opinion today... and greatest doesn't mean head to head necessarily, it is more all-encompassing and each great heavyweight seems to get their by his own alchemy of all the elements it does encompass... Without further ado...

    Joe Louis
    Muhammad Ali
    Lennox Lewis
    George Foreman
    Mike Tyson
    Jack Johnson
    Larry Holmes
    John L Sullivan
    Rocky Marciano
    Wladmir Klitschko
     
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  11. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    I don't pick these lists apart because they are just opinions... no matter how crazy they may seem! With that said...

    01 Ali
    02 Holmes
    03 Holyfield
    04 Foreman
    05 Tyson
    06 Lewis
    07 Marciano
    08 Frazier
    09 Louis
    10 Bowe

    Both Klits will make the top 10 when they retire.
     
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  12. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Come on man! No Mike "The Bounty" Hunter?
     
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  13. mgmark7

    mgmark7 Active Member Full Member

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    Who would they replace?

    1 Lewis
    2 W Klitschko
    3 V Klitschko
    4 Ali
    5 Louis
    6 Holyfield
    7 Holmes
    8 Foreman
    9 Bowe
    10 Tyson
     
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  14. Vinegar Hill

    Vinegar Hill Guest

    Where's Jack Bodell Pepe?
     
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  15. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    He was a bare knuckler who used beat gandy dancers and drunk navvies.
     
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