I'll tell you who it isn't. It's not Lewis who beat 4 different Lineal HW Champs (counting Briggs). It's not Ali who beat 5 different Lineal HW Champs. It's not Holyfield who also beat 5 different Lineal HW Champs.
Sure I am. Tyson beat Holmes and M. Spinks. 2 Lewis beat Tyson, Rahman, Briggs, and Holyfield. 4 Holyfield beat Foreman, Holmes, Bowe, Tyson, and Moorer. 5
...well, I gues that's the best answer we are going to get. A bunch of guys beat just 1, Sullivan beat 0 but some consider Corbett the first HW Champ. Some don't consider Hart lineal (he did beat Jack Johnson once btw).
Ali also beat 5, Patterson, Frazier, Liston, Foreman and Spinks. You can also count Terrell and Ellis too.
It could also be Corbett who beat Sullivan but like I said, some don't consider Sullivan the first. Corebtt didn't beat any other HW Champs.
If we are talking beating guys with World Title Belts Holyfield is probably #1. He beat- Booze, Qawi x2, Ocasio, Parkey, DeLeon, Thomas, Dokes, Douglas, Foreman, Holmes, Bowe, Moorer, Mercer, Czyz, Tyson x2, Ruiz, Rahman, Botha
Yeah, I can't believe I missed 1 for Holyfield... he beat Lineal HW Champs Douglas, Foreman, Holmes, Bowe, Tyson, and Moorer. That ties him with Louis. They both defeated 6 different "lineal" HW Champs!
what title did foreman have when briggs 'beat' him?....even though its lineal would he still not have to have a title?