Brit boxing writer Colin Hart leaves Wlad out of his Top Ten heavies OAT

I don't agree with his list but i don't have either Klitschko in my personal top 10.

 

No sign of Marciano ..

 

I wouldn’t have either Klit in the top 10 and Vitali never unified. His top 6 is acceptable but Tyson feels too high at 7 (as much as I like him) especially when there’s no Marciano, Dempsey or Liston and he’s ahead of Foreman and Frazier.

 

Replace Johnson with Dempsey and Vitali with Marciano

 

Swap Tyson with Foreman and replace Vit with Dempsey ,would even it up for me .

 

I'm not sure I've seen any ATG lists that have either of the Klitsscko's in the Top-10...

...before now.

 

Hart has long labelled Dempsey and Marciano as myths, and stated that they were too small to compete with modern era heavyweights.

I’m surprised if he has Lewis that high, as he has previously said that he was on the same level as Joe Bugner....

 

Not a bad list but I can't understand why Hart or anyone else would have Vitali in the top 10, ATG Heavyweights don't quit against fat middleweights, only other elite HW Vit faced was an old, arrogant, out of shape, disinterested Lennox Lewis who turned Vit's face into a butcher's slab and stopped him in 6. Some ATG.

 

Seems like bias - you have Louis and Holmes as your 2-3 but the man with next longest dominant stretch as the clear best heavy in the world can’t make the top 10. Seems off and done by design.

 

I'm not convinced Vitali deserves that rank, but otherwise I'd say it's fine.

So many great heavyweights some need left out.

 

Though Wlad was not the clear No.1 for nearly as long.

 

Sure he was - vitali tore his ACL and retired in 04 for 4 years. Wlad was clear the best after that and fought superior completion to his brother. Then his brother retired again and Wlad was clear cut number 1 until Fury dethroned him in a stinker. 11 years. You can’t have Louis and Holmes 2 and 3 and then not have Wlad anywhere in your top 10. It belies his own system

 

That list is terrible, I don't know anyone who would put Vitali over Foreman or Frazier.

This list needs drop Vitali and Johnson, add Dempsey and Marciano, drop Tyson a few ranks, put Foreman above Holmes, and put Lewis below Holyfield