The best heavyweight champ that Sugar Ray Robinson could have beaten?

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  1. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, I know it a stretch of the imagination to picture SRR fighting heavyweights since he was probably at his best at welterweight but he did only come up one small air conditioning unit short of winning the light heavyweight crown :sifone: so if he did decide to challenge the heavyweights,who are the best heavyweight title holders in history that you would give him a chance of winning against?
     
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  2. andrewa1

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    John Ruiz
     
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  3. Mr.DagoWop

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    Corbett or Fitz
     
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  4. BCS8

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    I'd pick some slow lunk that he could outbox and out speed. Valuev? Old Foreman?
     
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  5. Ken Ashcroft

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    I would have like to see a matchup against Leon Spinks though I would have still favoured Leon to win.
     
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  6. red cobra

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    Oh, but were it not for the restrictions of natural weight divisions, he would have beaten any of them.
     
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  7. Longhhorn71

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    When SRR was going to fight LtHvy Joey Maxim, SRR's manager said "If SRR won, then they were going after Marciano for the Hvywt Title".....to which SRR responded "Are you crazy, do you want to get me killed?".
     
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  8. Chuck Norris

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    A fight with Ezzard Charles at heavyweight would have been interesting.
     
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  10. BUDW

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    Roy
     
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  12. Hookandjab

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    None, maybe Ruiz
     
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  13. JackSilver

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    The same Ruiz that beat Holyfield? Can't see Robinson having much chance against him.
     
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  14. bodhi

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    Yeah, Roy jones Jr., Bob Fitzsimmons ... maybe Ezzard Charles. But none of the naturally bigger guys.
     
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  15. HerolGee

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    soem of the slow lumbering ones filled with fat of today for sure. They'd not lay a glove on him other than his forearms.
     
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