Ring magazine is officially lost it

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  1. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    Did I mention that Joe Louis also carried the weight of Germany’s resentment?
     
    Kamikaze, Sep 9, 2021
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    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Now that's a deer of a different color. Were Louis's shoulders made of titanium or something?
     
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    The deer was bigger than that. It was a monstrous elk.
     
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    They were built from
    F U N C T I O N A L M A S S
     
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    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Ah. The strongest known material.
     
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    If it’s shaped like a hay bale or a dead animal they will never falter to lift it, it is known.
     
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    BoxingFanOfIranianDescent Tony Galento was an African American boxer. banned Full Member

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    The only old timers that can make a top 10 are Joe Louis & Jack Dempsey, but even they werent the same level of "old timers" as Sullivan, Corbett, and Jack Johnson, slayer of middleweights, best opponent after HWC being freaking Jess Willard
     
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    Not that bad for the most part.

    Gene Tunney, Vitally Klitschko and Jim Cobrett ate too high.

    Jim Jeffries and Wladamir Klitschko are too low.
     
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    BoxingFanOfIranianDescent Tony Galento was an African American boxer. banned Full Member

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    How Johnson is considered a top 10 HW is beyond me, nobody can argue the societal impact his reign brought but his title defenses were beyond laughable, most folks he fought were significantly shorter, smaller, or greener than him.
     
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    BoxingFanOfIranianDescent Tony Galento was an African American boxer. banned Full Member

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    Great analysis, Ill have to remember slayer of LHW for Rocky, but at least rocky was a LH if not a cruiser,
     
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    BoxingFanOfIranianDescent Tony Galento was an African American boxer. banned Full Member

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    And the mass of the IRS, dude had the torque of an old Locomotive
     
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    I can actually live with that list
     
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    Any top ten heavyweight list....that has Mike Tyson in it ...is fine by me
     
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    I think in 'greatness' terms he makes it there, which is the same argument you could make for Louis. If you're weighting H2H heavily then a guy like Louis probably drops a lot and a guy like say Vitali, shoots up.
     
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    It is known.
     
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