Best five wins thread. Lineal / Ring Magazine heavyweight champions.

Floyd

Ingo
Moore
Bonavena
Machen
Chuvalo

 

Floyd Patterson

Ingo
Moore
Bonavena
Machen
Cooper

 

Not my fault!
Walcott;

Charles
Bivins
Maxim
Johnson
Ray-who I think is overrated
missing out Baksi

 

Excellent breakdown!

 

In his autobiography Louis recounts he was always pushing Jacobs for him to defend against black challengers,but Jacobs resisted because he was doubtful they would draw as well as white guys.

Jacobs had no colour prejudice the only colour he was interested in was green!
Louis finally put his foot down for the Lewis fight but, as Jacobs had feared the fight didnt do well at the gate.

 

Plus the two wins in rematches vs Charles and Walcott are strong wins on his resume.

 

i’m watching the fight now. So far I got Ellis winning. I gave him first 3 rounds. 4th clear Patterson. 5th swing round Patterson landed the best punch a beautiful uppercut and made Ellis miss a lot but Ellis throwing more and is forcing the action.
Round 6 a little slower dull round until last 45 seconds - Patterson lands great combo (replay shows initial two only graze) but more than enough for him to take this round.
round 7 - lot of posing and bouncing from Patterson - Ellis doesn’t do much either he does land a good right but not much else - swing round could go to Patterson. Close fight through 7 for me. Everyone in comment sections screaming robbery we’ll see

 

I would probably give Patterson the Nod over Ellis - he came on strong down the stretch - I gave him 11,13,14 I think and the 15th he was winning when video cut off with about minute 20 left.
Patterson did lot of posing and circling early on and Ellis forced the action. However Patterson landed more clean and late in the fight started landing some really crisp looking combinations as Ellis tired (and had a broken nose apparently). Patterson should of been credited with a knockdown in round 14 but on flip slide Patterson fell 4x in bout and all were ruled slips - and two of them - let’s just say I’ve seen bouts where the ref could of ruled them knockdowns. Good fight Patterson nicked it for me. 9-6 - 8-7 but not dominant. Didn’t let his hands go enough early or in the middle to convincingly win imo.

 

Watched the fight three/maybe four times, always edged it to Ellis, Patterson did the flashier work and as a big Floyd fan I was shouting at the screen as it seemed obvious that while he seemed better, Jimmy was outworking him. It was close either way and Patterson was the "home" favourite plus the commentary was crap if I recall correctly.

 

Great thread

 

Ingo best
Patterson
Machen
Cooper
London
Richardson

 

Oh lol not sure how u vote. Me and tech don’t mix