Classic Forum Collective Top 10 All-Time Heavyweights--POLL CLOSED!

If I only tabulated his top 8, it would **** up checks and balances.

I know some posters inexplicably felt the need to include more than ten names, but at least in those instances, I can simply dismiss the unnecessary excess.

In this case, however, his list was incomplete, and therefore, it was not counted in my poll.

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As I said, there's no reason for you to do this, as I intend to breaking the numbers down in a variety of similar ways.

I am curious, however, to learn whether or not your numbers matched mine for as far as you went.

I'm pretty sure I got everything entered perfectly, but cross referencing never hurts.

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Hey McGrain...

Why don't you select the division I choose next.

 

Okay, I'll follow that route. I was considering that, and also considered jumping around, but this makes sense. I'll start the new poll shortly.

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And yes, I 100% agree that the returns shall diminish as we go lower.

Honestly, it makes sense.

A lot of people (and I include myself in this group) are much better versed with heavyweight history than with any other division.

I'm not nearly as knowledgeable on the lower weight classes. However, I think I know enough from 135 and up to at least take an educated stab at it.

I may even refrain from even making a list in any weight classes lower than that because I don't think I have the knowledge base.

Then again, those are a few months away, so I have plenty time to do some research.

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Sorry dude, you're too late.

I just tabulated everything and I can't be arsed to do it again. However, please participate in a similar poll I'm about to start shortly. The next one pertains to the Light Heavyweight division.

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HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION RESULTS:

22 heavyweights received votes in the polls. Based on the scoring system, these are the results:

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11. 217 Sonny Liston
12. 106 Evander Holyfield
13. 67 Jim Jeffries
14. 23 Gene Tunney
15. 21 Sam Langford
16. 16 Harry Wills
17. 15 Jersey Joe Walcott
18. 14 John L. Sullivan
19. 8 Ezzard Charles
20. 2 (tie) Wladimi Klitschko
20. 2 (tie) Riddick Bowe
22. 1 Floyd Patterson

Here is the distribution of votes.
TOTAL LISTS - NAME - (1st-2nd-3rd-4-5-6-7-8-9-10)

80 Muhammad Ali (52 20 3 3 0 1 1 0 0 0)
80 Joe Louis (23 50 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 0)
78 Rocky Marciano (1 3 22 13 9 8 8 6 4 4)
72 Larry Holmes (0 1 18 14 14 10 8 3 2 2)
66 Lennox Lewis (1 0 11 12 14 7 8 8 3 2)
60 Jack Johnson (1 4 10 11 5 10 9 4 3 3)
67 George Foreman (0 0 2 5 10 9 14 15 6 6)
52 Jack Dempsey (2 1 4 7 5 6 7 5 7 8)
49 Mike Tyson (0 1 2 7 5 5 1 8 11 9)
65 Joe Frazier (0 0 2 0 3 9 10 16 15 10)
52 Sonny Liston (0 0 2 2 7 7 10 2 14 8)
35 Evander Holyfield (0 0 0 2 2 2 2 9 7 11)
10 Jim Jeffries (0 0 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 1)
7 Gene Tunney (0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 3)
9 Sam Langford (0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 4)
5 Harry Wills (0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4)
6 Jersey Joe Walcott (0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 3)
3 John L. Sullivan (0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1)
1 Ezzard Charles (0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0)
1 Wladimi Klitschko (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0)
1 Riddick Bowe (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0)
1 Floyd Patterson (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1)

More data to follow.

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