Ring's May 2017 Issue The Greatest All Time Heavyweights.

Thirty panelists were polled to come up with their selections .
Trainers.
Teddy Atlas
Pat Burns
Virgil Hunter
DonTurner
Matchmakers
Eric Bottjer
Don Chargin
Don Elbaum
Bobby Goodman
Ron Katz
Mike Marchionte
Russel Peltz
Bruce Trampler
Media
Al Bernstein
Ron Borges
Gareth Davies
Norm Frauenheim
Jerry Izenberg
Harold Lederman
Don Rafael
Paulie Malinaggi
Michael Rosenthal


Historians
Craig Hamilton
Steve Lott
Don McrRae
Bob Mee
Clay Moyle
Randy Roberts
Adam Pollack




The result?

1.Ali
2.Louis
3.Johnson
4. Marciano
5.Holmes
6.Dempsey
7.Foreman
8.Frazier
9.Tyson
10. Liston

11.Lewis & Holyfield tied
13.Tunney
14.Sullivan
15.Jeffries
16.W Klitchko
17 .V Klitchko
18. Corbett
19.Bowe
20.Fitzsimmons

Good List? Bad List?

 

I take it this is legacy Mac?

 

I've seen worst lists.

I don't know, a lot of the positions are interchangeable but the top two are rock solid choices and the rest merit consideration and should jockey for position accordingly. It depends on preference and whether we're talking accomplishments over h2h matchups. I think Lennox Lewis should be higher as should Wlad but it is pretty tough to come to a definitive conclusion from position 3-10 in my view.

 

Not a bad list. Although I always have a hard time putting Dempsey and Johnson on these lists. I am terribly biased pre 30s /40s though

 

Maricano and Dempsey too high. Lennox and Jeffries too low. That aside, it's generally not too bad.

 

I'd drop Johnson and Dempsey by quite a bit and raise Lewis by a lot too. It's not bad tho.

 

I have my disagreements, but I think it's a solid list overall, same top 4 as me actually.

The bigger changes for me would be Jeffries and Lewis up, Dempsey down, Holmes down a bit, drop Tunney, V Klitschko and Corbett for Charles, Walcott, and Schmeling.

 

Its a bit of every factor really.

 

For the most part I think that is a good list.

 

It's a decent list imo, but I think Tunney and Fitzsimmons are low, and Tyson is a little high. But overall, it's an alright list.

 

Well there’s probably nothing outrageously wrong with it.
Lewis and Holyfield maybe a bit higher, Holmes possibly at 3 but that’s just me.
At the bottom end I’d have Fitz above Corbett

 

Pandering to the readership or the asylum keepers have become the inmates. Either way, same result.

 

For a consensus list of 30 people not really too bad. I certainly would place some of them differently, but only Dempsey does not sit well with me...a little to high for my basis

 

I think Foreman is a little too high in general in many lists, Dempsey too.

Its pretty surprising how low Lewis is rated in comp. to lists/polls here on BF24, where he´s often almost top 5. I wouldn´t rate Foreman and Dempsey over LL personally, maybe drop Tyson/Frazier/Liston 1/2 spots also.