Greatest white heavyweight of all time?

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  1. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I mean I don't know enough about some the oldest era's so maybe idksab but Wlad's achievements and how long he lasted for are kind of insane and I think it's really hard to top.

    I would imagine the majority would say Rocky Marciano.
     
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  2. MarkusFlorez99

    MarkusFlorez99 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It's going to be David Surov in 20 years
     
  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Wlad, Vitali, Alex, Tyson F, Usyk... A bunch of Slavs and a gypsy.
     
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  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    The K bros had one Jewish grandparent.
     
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  5. Noel857

    Noel857 I Am Duran Full Member

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    The correct answer is Marciano
     
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  6. Lonsdale81

    Lonsdale81 Active Member Full Member

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    Marciano, Fitz & Tunney.
     
  7. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s banned Full Member

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    Usyk, Klitschko x2, Fury, Dempsey, Corbett, Tunney, Fitz, John L and Marciano - Tunney don’t really do all that much however.
     
  8. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s banned Full Member

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    Alex who? I’m a dummy.
     
  9. Lonsdale81

    Lonsdale81 Active Member Full Member

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    Beat HOFers Dempsey & Gibbons.
     
  10. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    A completely washed up Dempsey, whose wang was sore from 4 years of starlet abrasion, over ten rain soaked rounds where Jack couldn't set for a punch, and then again was declared winner after old, stale Jack KO'd him. And lightheavy Gibbons (he was in no way a HOF heavyweight) in his final fight of a l o n g career.

    Yeah, he's WAY up there.
     
  11. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Александр Владимирович Поветкин
     
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  12. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    There are such things as Slavic Jews.
     
  13. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The best LHWs of that era would clap Usyk like they were clapping their hands.

    Gibbons has the longest unbeaten record of any HW or LHW notable. Longer than Rocky Marciano. Of course he deserves to be in the HOF regardless of what you think about him.
     
  14. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Yes and no.
     
  15. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I choose Yes.