Let's see you top 10 HW's weighing 225 plus

Nice idea.
Ranked by Greatness or H2H?

 

Does Tyson/Ali/Frazier/Holmes count as 225lb plus they did weigh that much but not in their prime

 

In terms of 'how good they were'

Lewis
Foreman
Vitali
Wlad
Bowe
Ali (Cooperman/Young vintage)
Tyson (LEwis/Saravese vintage)
David Tua
Rudduck (Tyson 2 vintage)
Bruno/Old Holmes

Carnera/Willard don't make the cut

 

Off the top of my head here's 10 names (and no, they're not in order) I thought of

Lennox Lewis
Riddick Bowe
Primo Carnera
Jess Willard
George Foreman
Hasim Rahman
Vitali Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko
Tony Tubbs
Bonecrusher Smith

 

In practice they almost certainly would.

Make of that what you will.

 

Legacy wise they are good enough, performance wise they are not particularly good

 

I think that even based on performence they would have a fairly strong case.

George Godfrey also.

 

1. Lennox Lewis
2. George Foreman- 225lb against Ken Norton?
3. Wladimir Klitschko
4. Riddick Bowe
5. Buster Douglas
6. Ike Ibeubuchi
7. George Godfrey
8. Tim Witherspoon
9. Vitali Klitschko
10. Greg Page- PRIME


HM: Razor Ruddock, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tony Tubbs, Ruslan Chagaev, Buddy Baer, Jess Willard, Primo Carnera, Ray Mercer, Tommy Morrison, Alexander Povetkin, Michael Dokes,

 

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1. Lennox Lewis
2. George Foreman - (224 3/4 lbs vs Norton)
3. Riddick Bowe
4. Wladimir Klitschko
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Vitali Klitschko
7. Buster Douglas
8. Old Foreman
9. Mike Tyson
10. Donovan Ruddock

HM - Holmes, Williard, Carnera, Tucker, Tubbs, Thomas, Ike, Tua, Godfrey, Witherspoon, Page, Bruno

 

1. Lennox Lewis
2. Riddick Bowe
3. George Foreman (Peak Norton-fight version)
4. Wladimir Klitschko
5. Buster Douglas (Peak)
6. Muhammad Ali (Manila)
7. Razor Ruddock
8. Tim Witherspoon
9. Tony Tucker
10. Tony Tubbs
11. Greg Page (Peak),
12. Larry Holmes ('88-'92)
13. James Smith
14. Mike Tyson (Savarese-fight)
15. Frank Bruno

HM - Vitali Klitschko, Foreman (comeback), Ray Mercer, Tyrell Biggs (Peak), David Tua, Gerry Cooney, Ike Ibeubuchi.

Pinklon Thomas was very good, but I don't rate him well at this 225lbs+ weight level.

 

1. George Foreman
2. Lennox Lewis
3. Riddick Bowe
4. Buster Douglas (peak)
5. Vitali Klitchko
6. Ike Ibeabuchi
7. Old Mike Tyson
8. Wladmir Klitchko
9. Tim WItherspoon
10. Ray Mercer (weighed 237 vs Lewis and 224 vs Holy)
11. Tony Tucker
12. Gerry Cooney
13. Razor Ruddock
14. David Tua-Tony Tubbs-Greg Page-Bonecrusher

I was tempted to put Golota but he freaked out to many times so i couldnt put him in. Some of you are ranking Pinklon Thomas but in his prime he weighed 217,220ish i would have put him in the top 10 if so.

 

#1. Lennox Lewis
#2. George Foreman
#3. Larry Holmes
#4. Wladimir Klitschko
#5. Muhammad Ali
#6. Riddick Bowe
#7. Vitali Klitschko
#8. Buster Douglas
#9. David Tua
#10. Primo Canera