Top 10 Heavyweights Who Never Won The Undisputed Title

Probably the best was Larry Holmes (WBC Champion) Beat WBA counterpart Mike Weaver, but not in a unification bout.
2. Sam Langford
3 Harry Wills
4. Wladimir Klitschko
5. Tim Witherspoon
6. Ken Norton
7. Mike Weaver
8. Frank Bruno
9. Mike Dokes
10. Greg Page

 

Peter Jackson
Sam Langford
Joe Jeanette
Sam McVea
Ken Norton
Tim Witherspoon
Wladimir Klitshcko
Harry Wills
Chris Byrd
Mike Weaver

 

Excluding active fighters

1. Sam Langford
2. Peter Jackson
3. Harry Wills
4. Jimmy Young
5. Sam McVea
6. Ken Norton
7. Archie Moore
8. Tommy Loughran
9. Frank Slavin
10. Mike Weaver
11. Tim Witherspoon
12. Tom Sharkey

 

Where's Quarry?

 

1. Harry Wills
2. Sam Langford
3. Peter Jackson
4. Wladimir Klitschko
5. Elmer Ray
6. Archie Moore
7. Joe Jeanette
8. Tim Witherspoon
9. Ken Norton
10. Ike Ibeubuchi
11. Harold Johnson
12. Cleveland Williams
13. Lee Q Murray
14. Pinklon Thomas
15. Zora Folley


HM: Sam Mcvea Eddie Machen, Jerry Quarry, Clarence Henry, Luther Mccarthy, Rex Layne, Mike Weaver david tua

 

You could make a case Harold Johnson deserves it over Loughran. He beat better heavyweights Ezzard Charles, Nino Valdez, Archie Moore, Clarence Henry, Eddie Machen, Bob Satterfield. He had equal the jab Loughran had(I think slightly a bit more polished)....but he blows loughran away in the other areas.



Also did you accidently forget Joe Jeanette or do you consider Mcvea better?

 

I think McVea rates slightly higher.

I probably missed a few people though.

 

Oscar Bonavena
Jerry Quarry
Jimmy Young
Ken Norton
Ron Lyle
Cleveland Williams
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Ernie Terrell
Jimmy Ellis.

 

Holmes and wlad are the obvious choices.

Dempsey never fought the top coloured champions nor contenders so his title wasn't exactly undisputed.

Then guys like spoon, tua, wills and some others.

 

those are the 3 I thought about, funny nowadays, baring the S-HWs land of the giants Klits, the whiteman is out.

 

10: Lennox Lewis
9: James Jeffries
8: Jack Dempsey
7: Rocky Marciano
6: Evander Holyfield
5: Larry Holmes
4: Jack Johnson
3: George Foreman
2: Joe Louis
1: Muhammad Ali

But seriously, there has not been an Undisputed Heavyweight champion, not least because the moment anyone challenges him, he is 'disputing' his claim...

So I think the thread starter meant 'generally recognized as' Heavyweight Champion, thus the last time I did such a list (2006):

1: Wills
2: Langford
3: Norton
4: Jackson
5: Vitali
6: Jeanette
7: McVey
8: Witherspoon
9: Quarry
10: Bivens

 

In my time as a boxing fan,Ken Norton and Jimmy Young would be way up there.

 

I've always looked upon Holmes as an undisputed champion,funnily enough. In spite of only being recognised by one commision at a time.

 

No I think it's the one thing that can be held against him personally.