Compiling a list of the 50 greatest heavyweight fights

Nah! Make it more difficult! Stick to all times and whittle them down. Everyone loves a challenge.

 

Shall I post on it?

 

Hmm. . .

It is a good challenge. It's probably possible, but there's a few of the bareknuckle guys I'm yet to proprely look into.

The first lot I can think to consider would be
Bob Whitaker Vs The Venetian Gondalier
Jack Slack Vs Monsieur Petit
Hen Pearce Vs John Gully
Hen Pearce Vs Jem Belcher
Tom Cribb Vs Tom Molyneaux
Tom Sayers Vs John C Heenan
(a list that probably reflect my own biases more than anything else)

The one thing is there's a bunch of early fights that there's not really any good reports of, like William Stevens Vs Taplin, so you'd probably have to limit it to ones with good reports.

 

Honestly now that i think about it, I can give you a lot more fight suggestions for your list. I’ve been compiling a list of fights I think are awesome regardless of weight and I can just give you all the heavyweight fights I have on the list.

 

Ok, although it will be limited, but I will probably mostly cover 30s though 90s. It will take me a long time. I'll get on it now and try to post it tonight. So stick around Jel.

 

I really love your last two. Two of my favorite underrated fights.

 

Jsyk Morlocks, I'm not a big fan of Dempsey-Firpo either. Overall, I'm not a fan of Dempsey, but plz don't consider me to be similar to Klompton! lol

 

Marty Monroe vs. Lynn Ball

 

Moorer vs Cooper
Liston vs Wlliams I & II
Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson Trilogy
Jor Frazier vs Jerry Quarry I & II
Joe Frazier vs Jimmy Ellis
Ron Lyle vs Earnie Shavers
George Foreman vs Gerry Cooney
George Foreman vs Ron Lyle

 

Here are more fights for your consideration.

Joe Louis vs Billy Conn I
Ezzard Charles vs Joe Louis
Walcott vs Marciano I
Marciano vs Archie Moore
Sunny Liston vs Cleveland Williams II
Floyd Patterson vs Ingo Johannsen III
Muhammad Ali vs Doug Jones
Floyd Patterson vs George Chuvalo
Floyd Patterson vs Jerry Quarry
Joe Fraizer vs Jimmy Ellis I
Ali vs Ken Norton II & III
Ali vs Foreman
Ali vs Shavers
Larry Holmes vs Earnie Shavers II
John Tate vs Mike Weaver
Michael Dokes vs Gerrie Coetzee
Larry Holmes vs Carl Williams
Mike Tyson vs Quick Tillis
Holyfield vs Alex Stewart
Foreman vs Gerry Cooney
Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas
Pierre Coetzer vs Johnny Du Plooy
Larry Holmes vs Ray Mercer
Michael Moorer vs Alex Stewart
Michael Moorer vs Bert Cooper
Tommy Morrison vs Carl Williams
Lennox Lewis vs Frank Bruno
Larry Holmes vs Jessie Ferguson
Foreman vs Moorer
Holyfield vs Ray Mercer
Lennox Lewis vs Ray Mercer
Michael Moorer vs Frans Botha
Bowe vs Golata II
Lennox Lewis vs Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs vs Frans Botha
Golata vs Corey "T Rex" Sanders
Hasim Rahman vs Oleg Maskev I
Lewis vs Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko vs Corrie Sanders
Holyfield vs James Toney
Golata vs Chris Byrd
Monte Barrett vs Owen Beck
Lamon Brewster vs Sergei Liakovich

I could keep going but I did see you say that you were trying to keep it from the 30's to the 90's and my list here has already gone over into the mid 2000's

 

I decided to actually give it a go.

#01. Riddick Bowe vs Andrew Golota II
#02. Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier III
#03. Michael Moorer vs Bert Cooper
#04. George Foreman vs Ron Lyle
#05. Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali I
#06. Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield I
#07. Larry Holmes vs Ken Norton
#08. Evander Holyfield vs Bert Cooper
#09. Rocky Marciano vs Walcott I
#10. Evander Holyfield vs Michael Dokes

#11. Floyd Patterson vs Ingo III
#12. Rocky Marciano vs Archie Moore
#13. Buster Douglas vs Mike Tyson
#14. Larry Holmes vs Mike Weaver I
#15. Joe Louis vs Billy Conn I
#16. Joe Frazier vs Jerry Quarry I
#17. Andrew Golota vs Chris Byrd
#18. Mike Weaver vs Gerry Coetzee
#19. David Tua vs Ike Ibeabuci
#20. Tommy Morrison vs Razor Rudduck
#21. Floyd Patterson vs George Chuvalo
#22. Larry Holmes vs Tim Witherspoon
#23. Ron Lyle vs Ernie Shavers
#24. Anthony Joshua vs Wlad Klitschko
#25. Lamon Brewster vs Clifford Ettiene
#26. Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe III
#27. Joe Frazier vs Oscar Bonavena I
#28. Lennox Lewis vs Vitali Klitschko
#29. Dillian Whyte vs Derek Chisora I
#30. Mike Weaver vs Carl Williams
#31. Ezra Sellers vs Alex Stewart
#32. Andrew Golota vs Michael Grant
#33. Ken Norton vs Randall Cobb
#34. Greg Page vs Mark Wills I
#35. Ray Mercer vs Tim Witherspoon
#36. Tommy Morrison vs Carl Williams
#37. Hasim Rahman vs Corrie Sanders
#38. Alexander Povetkin vs Marco Huck
#39. Lamon Brewster vs Wlad Klitschko I
#40. Leon Spinks vs Bernardo Mercado
#41. Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe II
#42. Mike Tyson vs Razor Rudduck I
#43. Liakhovich vs Lamon Brewster
#44. Maurice Harris vs Derrick Jefferson
#45. Evander Holyfield vs Foreman
#46. Greg Page vs Mark Wills II
#47. Clifford Etienne vs Clay Bay
#48. Ezzard Charles vs Joe Louis
#49. Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson I
#50. Joe Frazier vs George Chuvalo

I'm not sold on the order, not in the slightest. After like... number two, I don't really mind what you have and where. The fights are all really close to what they're immediately above or beneath.