Head-to-Head — Top 5/10 Heavyweights?

Marciano knocked out Ali ? Well what do you know!

 

Is his top five the same as yours? Very surprised Liston's not in your top five. From memory I thought you favor Liston over at least three of those men (Foreman, Holmes, and Tyson).

 

Vitali
Ali
Lennox
Holyfield
Jeffries
Marciano
Foreman
Liston
Wlad
Tyson

honorable

Tunney or Louis

 

No place for Dempsey, or hon mention, just asking buddy. stay safe amigo.

 

Damn, I forgot him. No, I just messed up not putting him on the list. Cheers man

 

No problem buddy, we have all done the same. keep well.

 

It's so close between a bunch of them Swag i can go any which way. I always start with Ali then Lewis and after that it's anything goes between a handful of them. Liston could easily be in my five on any given day. There's really not many i favor over him.

 

Louis is a very tentative favorite against him, and maybe Holmes and Lewis(Though I lean towards Liston against both). Only person who is a clear favorite is Ali. Oh and Williams in a third bout

 

Bwahahahaha!!! A razors edge in those three fights.

 

Excellent list

 

They beat anyone pre Liston with ease. And even after that, only a handful stand a chance against them.

 

Louis was past his best when he faced Marciano.
Walcott was roughly the same size and he managed to drop Marciano.
The Ali fight was fictional.
Marciano was tough indeed, but he cannot withstand bigger more powerful men hitting him.
He gets obliterated by Lewis, Tyson, Klitschko etc.

Johnson sucks by comparison, it's not even close.

Tyson was faster than Tunney.
Tyson or Lewis would KO puny Tunney with the first punch they'd land.

 

Puny Tunney? Tunney was in excellent shape at 190 lbs and he's above average in terms of height for an adult male. He's not as big as modern HWs, but he wasn't small man at all and he was extremely tough, durable and athletic. He had the tools to fight in modern LHW and CW divisions just fine. He could also hit hard, which you probably doubt.

Put more respect to these guys, because they'd destroy you within a 10 seconds in the ring.

 

First if all, we are comparing him with ATG heavyweights, not ATGs from smaller weight classes.And he'd get beat by those to. Holyfield, Usyk, etc - beat Tunney with ease.
Second, he did not hit hard. Dempsey hit hard, Marciaco hit hard (for their size I mean), Tunney did not.
Third, if someone like Wlad or Lewis land with full power on him, Tunney's toast.
Fourth, I'm a welterweight, so I'd never get in the ring with such big men.

 

It's your assumption, I think that CW Holyfield vs Tunney would be a very good fight.

No, Dempsey and Marciano hit extremely hard, way beyond their weight. Tunney didn't maximize his punching power, but he could hurt you. He wasn't featherfisted.

How can you know that? Lewis landed quite a few heavy blows on Holyfield who wasn't bigger naturally and he didn't stop him.

Then if you are WW, stop calling people much bigger than you "puny".