Is there any set of life circumstances that would make Brian London a top 10 H2H heavyweight?

Erase 100-150 of the top heavyweights in history as if they never existed....
Possible.

 

If all previous lineal champs and top 20 fighters up to and after his time didn't exist.

 

Incidentally, the Mother of a woman I worked with c.6 years ago was "friendly" with Brian London after her Father had died. Nice guy apparently.

My answer to thread is no, unless "any change of life circumstances" stretches to him being born as Muhammed Ali.

 

I already have Brian London over Lennox Lewis H2H

 

Brian would have been a hell of a cruiserweight. If trained to the max.

 

Seriously what's the point with threads like this? I don't get it. Why don't you suggest what might make him one? Why not make it interesting -what could make Ike Williams a H2H heavy, or a real challenge what circumstances would make Joe Louis a H2H flyweight?

By all accounts a decent, humorous man -see the response to news of his passing a couple of years ago. An intelligent one too -he invested wisely and was financially secure after his career. A lot of his losses came after his best. He was a tough, physically very fit fighter who won the British and Commonwealth titles and beat some which is hell of a lot more than most did. Also lost to the best he faced, though gave a good account of himself. He was also not in the top tier -something he himself recognised. When asked about the Ali fight

“I would have taken a gun into the ring and shot him. That was the only way I was going to beat him that night.”

He had a respectable career and a more successful life outside of it. He was not going to be a top ten H2H heavyweight fighter.

 

Brian legally passes a knife into every fight in the ring.

Tops the list of No1 on my H2H list.

 

He is born July 4, 1918 in Brooklyn to Joseph and Sarah Rogers. His father is killed by mustard gas in WWI.

He volunteers for the Army during WWII, a scrawny and pitiable, if brave, solider. And further volunteers for a secret experiment. The intelligence community changes his name to Brian London and gives him a false UK identity to protect the secret project.

He is injected with the super soldier serum and becomes Captain Britain and helps the Allies defeat Hitler (and the Red Skull) to win the war.

Then his plane crashes in the Arctic and his body is frozen in an iceberg. Decades later, he is discovered and revived and begins a boxing career.

Meet Capt. Brian London, war hero and heavyweight champion:

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Do I win a prize?

 

He would have to murder at least a thousand heavyweights

 

By some of the things you’re describing he would be a biologically different being. The only thing that would remain the same is the name Brian London. By that logic he could have theoretically been the greatest fighter of all time.

 

If the entire world was decimated, and the only plot of land remaining was Great Britain ...

I still don't think he makes the top 10.

Lennox, Fury, Joshua, Bruno, Whyte, Akinwande, Hide, Mason, Joyce, Cooper, even Chisora probably beat him.