My top 10 worst heavyweight champions of all time

As champion, he had a very weak run. So following the semantics of the question, he is not a top 10 champion (as with Liston, also). I do think he is a top-10 heavyweight based on resume and doing well to defeat most of the important fighters over a long period of time. Those hopheads and middleweights were the best the boxing world had to offer and he dealt with just about all of them.

 

Briggs, L. Spinks, Willard, Carnera, Foreman (94 version),
Off top of my head would be top 5

 

Floyd Patterson takes all 10 spots.

 

George Foreman 1994 and Michael Moorer shouldn't be in this list. Foreman was still very effective when he captured the belt and Michael Moorer was very good.

 

I have to disagree over Foreman. He received his title shot against Moorer soley on name value, he had just come off a loss to Tommy Morrison where he was handily outboxed. Then against Moorer he was clearly being dominated by a blown up light heavy, until the fateful 10th round. After the victory he avoided his mandatory who was Tony Tucker and was stripped of one of his two alphabet titles to take on the unknown and lightly regarded Axel Schulz of Germany. A fight in which he was widely believed to win easily turned out to be a gift deciscion as Schulz dominated the second half of the fight. His lone remaining alphabet realizing the deciscion was egregious ordered an immediate rematch of which Foreman denied, thus being stripped of his second and last remaing alphabet title. After that he went on to fight unknown Crawford Grimsley, lou Savarese and lose to Briggs (in a fight most Foreman deserved) hardly a noteworthy second reign.

 

The way you evaluate a fighters credentials to be on this list, is you take away their heavyweight title winning fight (which is by definition assumed), and see what you have left.

The fighters that should really have a place on this list, are the ones who really didn’t achieve that much outside of winning the heavyweight title.

 

Leon Spinks
Bruce Seldon

 

i don,t like this thread....all champions were once dedicated boxers.
even Leon Spinks was in his short prime a very decent boxer ....

 

I don't think Moorer belongs there. He was highly skilled, first guy to beat Holyfield. I'd put Ingo Johannson in there instead.

 

Second guy to beat Holyfield.

Johannson was a very dangerous fighter. Underrated.