Who was the physically strongest heavy weight champ?

Rahman

 

Older foreman or Jeffries...Ali was up there

 

Superstar Billy Graham was a heck of a specimen in his heyday, but the roids have damaged him. I think he used to train with Arnold back in the day.

 

Carnera or Willard were both incredibly strong.

Among great hwts

Jeffries
Foreman

 

Foreman or Lewis

 

Holyfield was very strong for his size, pushed several heavier fighters around.
Also Bruno

 

Foreman, Lewis, Klitschkos, perhaps even Joshua now

 

For raw, natural, still-a-monster-even-if-he-never-lifted-a-barbell, launch-you-into-orbit strong, another nod for Foreman ...

 

p4P Marciano and Tyson are way up there


But since this isn't p4P my top 4 are

1. Lennox Lewis
2. Wladimir Klitschko
3. Sonny Liston
4. George Foreman

 

It depends on whether you consider Mike Weaver a Heavyweight Champion or not. I don`t but he did hold a title belt in the early 80s.

 

I saw him up close in real life many years ago. He had the biggest arms I'd ever seen up to that point in my life. Actually, I've only seen a handful of guys ever since then in real life with bigger arms.

 

Probably foreman. He could come out retirement right now and win an arm wrestling match with any of the active fighters.

Lewis, Vitali, Wladmir, Jim Jeffries, and Anthony Joshua would be in the top 10 for sure.

Tex Cobb, carnera, holyfield, and max baer deserve honorable mentions. Ali had underrated physical strengtgh too. Even when he was young, lean, and scrawny no one ever outmuscled him pr dominated him in the clinch.

 

Not sure why Lewis is mentioned. He got tossed around like a rag doll against Rahman in the ESPN studio. He was also hip tossed a couple times by Jeremy Williams during a sparring session. Imagine Williams trying that on Foreman?

Anyways, I'm picking George Foreman, Frank Bruno and possibly Wlad.

 

Ragdolled? That's an exaggeration. It looked like Lewis just lost his footing and tripped over the table. There were a lot of other people in there pushing and pulling so it's hard to make much out of it. Williams was a Judo blackbelt, him tripping Lewis had little to do with physical strength.

 

Haha lol, using an interview brawl to prove rahman is way stronger than lewis? Show me one fight where lewis gets outmuscled and shoved around. He wasnt shredded but he was big and had natural strength and knew how to use it.