If you put every heavyweight champion of all time into 1 room to fight who walks out?

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  1. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    You should add Riddick Bowe to that team, his favourite Heavyweight was Ali, who inspired him to take up boxing, plus he's friends with Tyson.
    Tyson, Bowe, Ali, Holmes...that would be a pretty tough group.

    What fighting team would Lennox Lewis be in?
    I think he'd be a great devastating addition to any grouping.

    Imagine a squad of Liston, Foreman & Old Foreman!
     
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    Interesting


    Were there any other great boxers who considered Ali their favorite? Because Bowe is a great addition to that resistance.


    But yea, Liston and Foreman are definitely teaming up. Hell I would even throw Louis on that alliance considering the friendship Louis and Liston shared. Throw Schmeling in the mix as well. That would be the scariest team.
     
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    Louis would end up getting nailed eventually because he was friends with Liston, Marciano, Schmelling, and Holmes, so if/when he chose a side it would greatly anger 3 very dangerous others.
     
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    I still want to know who Holy, Frazier & Lennox would be with.
    I haven't thought of a team for those 3.
     
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    I'll have a look.

    I do know that Vitali would want to be alongside Max, as he had this to say:

    “Max Schmeling – my first most special fighter, my idol, my hero. I respect him as a fighter and much more as a human. I knew him very well. He helped me a lot.”
     
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    Frazier would likely be with Louis or Marciano. He has always had tons of respect for those two.
     
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    I'm going to add Jack Dempsey to "Team Ali" because Tyson absolutely idolizes him.

    Plus i'm adding Tunney & Patterson, since wife Deanna Dempsey said this in 1997:

    Closest Boxing Friends: “Floyd Patterson. Gene Tunney. He liked all of them but he was closest to them. He beat Luis Firpo and then they became friends. Jack was just that kind of person...
     
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    I think if Dempsey went to team Ali, it would be purely out of logic of finding some good fighters to help him survive as long as possible. But it does seem likely.


    I also agree that Marciano and the Klitschko's would join team Louis, making them by far the greatest team there is in that huge room.

    But there is one other team we must consider:
    What about a Jeffries-Corbett-Sullivan-Jackson-Burns-Fitz-Langford team? They could really cause some havoc. Who knows, they might even let Johnson team up with them.

    If Johnson were smart though, he would go with team Ali. Because he has a lot of fans in that team who would accept him and be proud to fight alongside him, such as Ali, Tyson, & Holmes.
     
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    Ike Ibeabuchi teams up with Rocky Marciano and Joe Frazier.

    They position themselves in a tight inverted triangle formation. They then proceed to mow forward and carwash/wheat plough everybody in the room
     
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    That...just...might...be crazy enough to WORK!
     
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    maybe Jefferies could Simply soak it up and outlast more talented fighters.
    Once fatigue sets in Giving it can take mre out of you than taking it.
     
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    After years of being second best to the likes of Ali and Holmes, and being pushed around by guys like Foreman... Ken Norton finally snaps, strips off naked, covers himself in camouflage and goes native on everybody's ass.
     
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    If Foreman, Lennox and Tyson were standing in front of them I doubt they would get far.
     
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    Im actually surprised nobody is saying Willard


    People would think hes harmless, yet would withstand enough punishment to make it to the final 30 for sure.