2026 TOP 10 ALL-TIME HEAVYWEIGHTS SURVEY - RESULTS!

Took me long enough to compile this, but here we go!

Results based on the 32 lists submitted here: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/2026-top-10-all-time-heavyweights-survey.752067/

Number 1 on each list got 10 points, number 2 got 9, all up to the number 10 receiving 1 point.

Thank you very much for participating, here go the results:

10. Evander Holyfield

Overall points scored: 69
Present on 20 lists
In the Top 5 on na 1 list
Highest place on the list: 4

9. Jack Johnson

Overall points scored: 70
Present on 15 lists
In the Top 5 on 6 lists
In the Top 3 on 2 lists
Highest place on the list: 2

8. Wladimir Klitschko

Overall points scored: 75
Present on 18 lists
In the Top 5 on 6 lists
Highest place on the list: 4

7. Mike Tyson

Overall points scored: 87
Present on 27 lists
In the Top 5 on 3 lists
In the Top 3 on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 3

6. Rocky Marciano

Overall points scored: 111
Present on 19 lists
In the Top 5 on 13 lists
In the Top 3 on 3 lists
Highest place on the list: 3

5. George Foreman

Overall points scored: 128
Present on 27 lists
In the Top 5 on 11 lists
In the Top 3 on 2 lists
Highest place on the list: 3

4. Larry Holmes

Overall points scored: 206
Present on 31 lists
In the Top 5 on 24 lists
In the Top 3 on 13 lists
Highest place on the list: 2

3. Lennox Lewis

Overall points scored: 213
Present on 32 lists
In the Top 5 on 26 lists
In the Top 3 on 14 lists
Number 1 on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 1

2. Joe Louis

Overall points scored: 286
Present on 32 lists
In the Top 5 on 31 lists
In the Top 3 on 28 lists
Number 1 on 9 lists
Highest place on the list: 1

1. Muhammad Ali

Overall points scored: 309
Present on 32 lists
In the Top 5 on 32 lists
In the Top 3 on 32 lists
Number 1 on 22 lists
Highest place on the list: 1

Heavyweights that didn't make the Top 10:

11. Joe Frazier (Smokin' Joe missed the Top 10 by 1 point!)

Overall points scored: 68
Present on 21 lists
In the Top 5 on 2 lists
Highest place on the list: 5

12. Sonny Liston

Overall points scored: 44
Present on 14 lists
In the Top 5 on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 5

13. Jack Dempsey

Overall points scored: 37
Present on 11 lists
In the Top 5 on 2 lists
In the Top 3 on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 3

14. Oleksandr Usyk

Overall points scored: 32
Present on 10 lists
In the Top 5 on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 4

15. Vitali Klitschko

Overall points scored: 12
Present on 3 lists
Highest place on the list: 6

16. John L. Sullivan

Overall points scored: 3
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 8

16. Jim Jeffries

Overall points scored: 3
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 8

18. Gene Tunney

Overall points scored: 2
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 9

18. Ezzard Charles

Overall points scored: 2
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 9

18. Riddick Bowe

Overall points scored: 2
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 9

21. Harry Wills

Overall points scored: 1
Present on 1 list
Highest place on the list: 10

 

Decent list.

 

The fact Wladimir Klitschko and Johnson made the top 10 but Frazier didn’t is crazy.

 

Great work, mate, thank you.

 

Frazier didn't make it by only 1 point, so you can easily swap him with Holyfield.

 

What's interesting is this gap Lewis and Holmes have over those below even if I would have predicted the placing. Ali and Louis obviously expected.

 

Yes, over the past decade or so they've developed into a near consensus 3 and 4, in one order or the other.

 

I mean I could easily be wrong but based on what I have seen it feels like it's possibly even more a consensus than a couple years ago.

 

Johnson has always been an old-timer favorite. Wlad accomplished much more than Frazier and would probably have done better against Ali & Foreman. If you go 1-4 against your peers you don't deserve to be in the top 10.

 

List isn't bad. I don't like Holyfield at 10. I think Dempsey should be in there.

 

I might quarrel with the list, but never the work put into it. Great work.

 

This is great @MaccaveliMacc, agree with 8/10.Thanks for doing this its a herculean effort from you

 

Sweet, respectable list. Thanks @MaccaveliMacc

 

Vitali is comically high for a guy whose best win is Sam Peter or Corrie Sanders.

Holmes mania continues to run wild. #4 for beating Norton and Witherspoon? You all know in your heart is isn't true.

 

That's certainly not the worst list I've seen. Good work Macc.