My Top 175Pounders.

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  1. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Ranking only those that held the crown.

    1. Moore
    2.Foster
    3.Conn
    4.Spinks
    5. Loughran
    6.Lewis
    7.Johnson H
    8.Delaney
    9.Jones Jnr
    10 Dillon

    Something like that.

    Oh, and none of them beat a prime Jack Johnson,imo.
     
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  2. McGrain

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    Allowing guys who didn't hold the title i'd go for:

    10 - Muhammad
    09 - Bivins
    08 - Foster
    07 - Lewis
    06 - Loughran
    05 - Spinks
    04 - Tunney
    03 - Greb
    02 - Moore
    01 - Charles
     
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  3. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    No room for Langford? I would suggest 175lbs would have been his optimum weight.
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    It may have been, but in terms of what he actually did as a light-heavyweight against other light-heavyweights (my criteria) he has almost nothing. Didn't make my top 50.
     
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  5. Mr.DagoWop

    Mr.DagoWop Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I like your list but I put Charles on there at the top.
     
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  6. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Just an observation... Greb beat two of the guys on this list and beat a couple guys who beat a third guy on this list.

    Also, no Tunney?
     
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  7. salsanchezfan

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    McGrain, which Muhammad, Saad or Eddie Mustafa? Saad, presumably.......?
     
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  8. McGrain

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    roger
     
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  9. mcvey

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    I excluded those who did not actually hold the title. If I had included everyone, I would put it something like.
    1.Tunney
    2.Charles.
    3. Moore
    4.Foster
    5.Langford
    6.Conn
    7.Greb
    8.Spinks
    9.Lewis
    10 Johnson. H

    For me 1& 2 are pretty much interchangeable.
     
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    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    "Ranking only those that held the crown". See other post.
     
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  11. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Your point is valid ,I just ask myself how many of them beat a 175lbs Langford?
    I'm also fretting about leaving Fitzsimmons out,again he did little at the weight but how many would beat him?
     
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  12. Frankel

    Frankel Active Member Full Member

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    Spinks licked a decent version of Holmes twice.
     
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  13. Saintpat

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    Roger Muhammad? :outtahere:
     
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  14. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Crazy to think that Marvin Johnson, Michael Spinks, Mate Parlov, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Dwight Muhammad Qawi and Yaqui Lopez, all were around the same time and most of them faced each other.
     
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    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    My top 10.
    1- Ezzard Charles.
    2- Genne Tunney.
    3- Archie Moore.
    4- Bob Foster.
    5- Michael Spinks.
    6- Harold Johnson.
    7- Billy Conn.
    8- Matthew Saad Muhammad.
    9- Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.
    10- Roy Jones Jr.
     
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