I've revised mine very recently. Feel free to post your latest and pick mine apart. Who knows? You may inspire me to revise mine again! Mine is a Resume/Legacy List. Being ranked higher does NOT mean a guy could defeat everyone below him, head to head. As such, I don't rate active fighters, whose legacy and resume is not yet complete. Inactive Top 25 All- Time Heavyweights: 01. Muhammad Ali 02. Joe Louis 03. Evander Holyfield 04. Jack Johnson 05. Lennox Lewis 06. Jack Dempsey 07. Rocky Marciano 08. George Foreman 09. James J. Jeffries 10. Sam Langford 11. Larry Holmes 12. Harry Wills 13. Sam McVea 14. Sonny Liston 15. Jersey Joe Walcott 16. Mike Tyson 17. Floyd Patterson 18. Ezzard Charles 19. Joe Frazier 20. Joe Jennette 21. Jimmy Bivins 22. James J. Corbett 23. Archie Moore 24. Earnie Shavers 25. Max Baer
I see a guy in your top ten who only managed three successful title defenses, one highly disputed with no rematch given, and went 0-3 in fights with guys in the top ten that went 12 rounds. I see a 20+ defense champion who is absent not only from the top ten, but from the list.
All due respect. Liston, Holmes, Tyson, Frazier, Patterson to low. Johnson, Jeffries, to high. Shavers shouldn't be on here when Wlad isn't. You're still one of my favorite posters mate.
Did Shavers even had some belt? I think he didn't had beated nor Ali nor Holmes and from 70 ies most notable boxers are Holmes, Frazier, Foreman and Ali while Norton too looks more notable than Shavers cos he once had beat this Ali and had strange decision loss vs Ali.
1-Muhammad Ali. 2-Joe Louis. 3- I don't want to get overpowered by anyone here, H2H he wouldn't make it in the top 20, but in term of accomplishments, i think he deserves this spot. So The number 3 should be :Rocky Marciano. 4-Lennox Lewis 5-Sonny Liston 6-George Foreman 7-Larry Holmes 8-Evander Holyfield 9-Mike Tyson 10-Joe Frazier 11-Riddick Bowe 12-Vitali Klitschko. 13-Jack Dempsey. 14-Wladimir Klitschko 15-Floyd Patterson
Mike Tyson is so overrated because people love his horrible and vulgar personality and I assume boxing style. Best wins: Spinks (not even a heavyweight and was petrified and retired immediately after), the ghost of Holmes, Bruno, Tucker, Berbick.... Such a poor list. Got beat black and blue by Holyfield, Lewis, Douglas, Williams and McBride...
The only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated. The Only heavyweight to make every single defense against the top contender. Beat Ezzard Charles, Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Archie Moore ex....all of them were past it, but it wasn't Rocky's fault.
Holyfield at 3? Tainted by steroids. Dempesy? Who did he beat to be that high? Wills is arguably higher. Frazier, winner of the FOTC, at 19? Archie Moore as a heavy? Ernie Shavers? Did you intend to write that? No Wlad Klitschko? Really? You got 1 and 2 right, and the rest are fairly subjective. I don't agree completely, but don't have a problem with them, either.