My best pick of Top-20 "Heavy" champs from 1887-2011. WORD!

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  1. manbearpig

    manbearpig A Scottish Noob Full Member

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    Your whole list is shocking, and I've asked you before about this, but if your list is 'h2h' and then achievements based, how the **** can George Foreman be above Muhammad Ali? Ali KO8 Foreman.

    I won't mention Lewis v Klitschko because Vitali 'won the event' and all that, eh?
     
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  2. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As for Holy stopping Cooper in a thriller back in '91, Holy claimed he was OVER-trained cuz of his on again and off again deal with Team Tyson that fell apart cuz of hurt 'Tyson' ribs and Tyson's **** rap he was facing.......

    Berton Cooper was thought to be done with after he was KO'd in 2 rds by Bowe in 1990, but Cooper was in-shape and came to fight Holy in late 1991........ Point is, Cooper was still a tuff mother in 1991......

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  3. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Let's roll......

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  4. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I made a thread about the notorious story about the ring's ropes in the Ali-Foreman fight , if you saw that fight you would have known to what extent Ali used the ropes his manager and trainer Angelo Dundee fetched for him.
     
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  5. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I could not find a place that high for The Night Train .
    So you want me to put a MW / SMW in there ?
     
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  6. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    And in general : do you know Vitali and Lewis fought other fighters as well as each other ? same for Ali and Foreman , only in this case it an even better example.
     
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  7. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    Worst ****ing list I've ever seen.
     
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  8. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well, hell....... Why not add "Dull" Razor Ruddock to the list? CHRIST!!

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  9. Boilermaker

    Boilermaker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I though you might.

    Liston at 33, Fitz at 34th?
     
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  10. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    Mine is much better...

    This is a h2h list , with a few exceptions caused by lack of quality opposition and achievements :

    1. Sugar Nikolay Valuev
    2. Audley "A Force" Harrison
    3. "Super" Brian Nielsen
    4. Eric "Butterbean" Esch
    5. Tyson Fury
    6. Monte "Two Gunz" Barrett
    7. Albert "The Dragon" Sosnowski
    8. Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson
    9. "Big" Bill Tate
    10. Kevin "Tyson Bit My Sexy Nipps" McBide

    :deal
     
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  11. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I have no interest in ranking today's heavies in order........ I just don't...... Let KO or Ring mag. do that work........ TRUTH!

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  12. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Other than the K-bros., Haye, Holy, Toney, Peter and Povetkin, I just get lost in the dark.......... Solis? PUH-LEASE!!

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  13. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why do you keep asking ? I posted the first 43 places .
    Maybe Liston could crack my top 35 or something , just maybe.
    Fitz ? a top 15 at SMW and MW , maybe.
     
    frankenfrank, Jun 30, 2010
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  14. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I stopped buying Ring and KO mags back in 2005. So as far as checking some respectable ratings on a whim, that part is gone.... And I rarely go online to see what the rankings are these days.... After all, they are pretty much corrupt to the maxi-pad anyway..... It pains me to say it, but boxing is in a slump just like the American economy is..... Times are tuff right now........

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    MRBILL, Jun 30, 2010
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  15. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Corruption in boxing and boxing rankings is not an index of the American economy.
     
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