*** Your top 15 H2H peak/prime Heavyweights***

1. Liston
2. Ali
3. Lewis
4. Louis
5. Marciano
6. Tyson
7. Bowe
8. Johnson
9. Foreman
10. Holyfield
11. Dempsey
12. Holmes
13. Tunney
14. Walcott
15. Charles

(This is without taking alot of time theorizing as to each man's respective record against his peers.)

 

This list is controversial for sure Stone...

 

...right from the top spot...! But I got my hands wrapped for anyone who wants a piece a' me.

 

I love Liston but how could you put him at #1???

 

Because the 1959 was a beast with brains.

If you have all the HW champs fight each other in a round robin in their respective career primes, I think that he would end up with the best record. In sum, he could overpower the superior boxer and outbox the rest of the beasts.

Would 1959 Liston defeat 1967 Ali? I say no. But frankly, I can't quite see anyone else handling him.

 

No Frazier?

 

If you say no, then why is Ali below Liston?

 

...I forgot him...

 

I believe that with Futch behind him, Frazier would defeat Ali, even in '67. I'm less confident that Ali would defeat Holmes than I am that Liston would beat anyone else besides Ali.

 

If we're talking purely head to head then I think I'd go with something like:

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Lennox Lewis
3. Larry Homes
4. Joe Louis
5. George Foreman
6. Evander Holyfield
7. Joe Frazier
8. Mike Tyson
9. Wlad Klitshcko
10. Vitali Klitschko
11. Rocky Marciano
12. Sonny Liston
13. Riddick Bowe
14. Jack Johnson
15. Jack Dempsey

(Awaits the backlash)

 

Insteading of being a jerk-off, engage me with argument.

 

And you're a Foreman butthugger.

But Frazier isn't on your list either!

 

Styles make fights. Pep is far greater than Angott but I'd bet that Angott would defeat Pep almost every time.

I forgot Frazier, but he would score pretty low on that list because his high-pressure style is the perfect complement to that left hook that exploited a bad habit of Ali. That being said, he is too small and one-armed to be a match for most of the others.

 

Marciano, Dempsey and Johnson outta there and it would have been respectable list.