The best heavyweight champ that Sugar Ray Robinson could have beaten?

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  1. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The heavyweight title holders of today are Joshua,Wilder and Parker and I don't think you can call any of them slow,lumbering and full of fat. Or well you thinking of Tyson Fury?
     
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    you have a point they arent slow, and we blessed to have three whom we havent seen maxxed out yet.

    I meant recent times rather than right at this moment. 6 round sam peter, the "accidental champ" Sanders, Sultan fatso and the like
     
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    First ones I thought of.
     
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    SRR weighed in at 157-1/2 lbs for the Lthvy Maxim fight, and gassed out due to the heat. Probably the same thing would happen against any of the legit heavyweight champs.
     
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  6. Unforgiven

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    They would all beat him.
     
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    I'd be peeking this way and adding Roy Jones. These are all maybe's of course.
     
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    Heavyweight seems a few steps too many. I think a more interesting thing to consider might be who are the best light heavyweight champions he could have beaten.
     
    Rumsfeld, Jul 14, 2017
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    I can't see it, maybe some of the early smaller ones but I been quite impressed with what I've seen of Tommy Burns. Roy Jones jnr was a naturally bigger fella than Ray, more suited to that John Ruiz fight.
     
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    Jersey Joe Walcott.
     
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    It would have been insane!:headbash
     
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    Maybe Braddock in a 12 rounder.

    More than likely the Chris Byrd between 2005-2006.
     
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    some of the more unskilled recent ones are good examples.
     
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  14. Unforgiven

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    He's actually too small, too frail in the body.
     
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