Larry Merchant's Top Ten All Time Heavies

Like when the film caught Spinks taking a dive against Tyson? Abre tus ojos, mijo!!

 

Holmes maybe just makes my top ten, so not a lot of argument there.

Tyson's accomplishments do not approach Marciano's. Talk about cadre of washed-up drug addicts. Wow.

Holy I once rated top five, but PEDs. He was having HGH shipped to his house, and there really is no way of mitigating that. Maybe just bottom end of top ten. Maybe not. I re-think that a lot as I still have a fondness for him.

 

I don’t believe he made it up cold but it seems very likely to me watching it that a significant exaggeration is in effect.

 

Ali
Louis
Lewis
Holmes
Wlad
Foreman
Marciano?
the rest eg Tyson Holyfield Frazier Liston Dempsey as you like them.

 

Ali and Louis has to be top two, even though you can argue the order. They're just so ridicolously far ahead of the rest.

After that the order becomes dicey for me, but Lewis, Holmes, Johnson and Marciano should be there. I also think Wlad's ten years of dominance make him hard to leave out, even though there are some blotches there. Next four would probably be Frazier, Tyson, Foreman and Holy, and I think it's fair to leave Holy out because of the Evan Fields business. Liston, Jeffries and Dempsey are peering in from the outside.