Google Picks the Top 10 Heavyweights of All Time?

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  1. Ted Stickles

    Ted Stickles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You can’t go by a list like that, it’s mostly a popularity contest with the occasional old school name thrown in to try and appease real boxing people.
     
  2. Finkel

    Finkel Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I suspect it also depends on your search criteria. If you search specifically for fighter names "Verbatim" you get results like this:

    1. "Mike Tyson" = 34.6m
    2. "Muhammad Ali" = 22.4m
    3. "Anthony Joshua" = 8.7m
    4. "Tyson Fury" = 8.6m
    5. "George Foreman" = 5.7m
    6. "Deontay Wilder" = 4.6m
    7. "Oleksandr Usyk" = 3.2m
    8. "Joe Louis" = 3.1m
    9. "Jack Dempsey" = 2.0m
    10. "Joe Frazier" = 1.9m

    "Jack Johnson" was at 6.0m, but the majority of his hits will be for the American Singer-songwriter of the same name.
     
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  3. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Exactly. It's a ridiculous list.

    The man has never even defend his championship.

    Unless you count his invisible "lineal" title. :lol:
     
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  4. ashishwarrior

    ashishwarrior VIP Member Full Member

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    this
     
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  5. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    This is just a list of who's been searched the most, no? By anyone and everyone. Jake Paul will be on it in 12 months time :lol:
     
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  6. ecto55

    ecto55 דמוקרטיזציה של השממות האיסלאמיות כעת banned Full Member

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    Well yeah, I guess it sort of measures their cultural impact...which in of itself is interesting. Joe Louis at no.3 even after all these years is pretty good...but I wonder if it would have a different list if it was in the Hispanic Google.
     
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  7. djanders

    djanders Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I took the names of 25 likely Heavyweight Candidates and simply typed them into Google's search engine and recorded the number of hits. I was just curious what a list like that would look like. Actually, I was surprised it wasn't worse than that. It's no doubt fluid and would probably change often. This was done on 07/26/01.
     
  8. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tyson Fury and Jack Johnson wouldn't get past the parking lot much less 6th and 7th on this list
     
  9. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This was clearly based on popularity, name recognition and nostalgia
     
  10. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado Full Member

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    No Wladimir Klitschko?

    Garbage list.
     
  11. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    Suprised to not see Marciano, either of the Klitschkos but Fury instead. 35 million fans don't know how ATG status is supposed to work.
     
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  12. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    No Rocky Marciano is kinda stunning.
     
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  13. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    My thoughts are what is this showing? How many millions of times these names were searched?

    What do you mean "I TRIED" 25 names? Did you put this list together or did Google?

    Is this a list of the most searched heavyweights or the best ever?
     
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  14. miniq

    miniq Tyson Fury Undisputed HW Champion 18/5/24 Full Member

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    Thank god Fury is there
     
  15. Ted Stickles

    Ted Stickles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jennifer Lopez ass would come in first lol