Rank The 5 Top Heavyweight s From The Last Great Era In Heavyweight boxing?

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  1. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Most of the above is childish personal attacks coming from someone who can’t accept that someone doesn’t idolize Tyson the way that he does. So Yep !!! I’m gonna pull a Vorhees, Krueger and Michael Myers combined right here and now:

    Foreman in the 90’s >>>>>>>>Tyson in the 90’s.
     
  2. 15 rounds

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    Very good

    I would have it

    1. Lewis
    2. Holyfield
    3. Bowe
    4. Tyson
    5. Ibeabuchi
     
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  3. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Everything I post is based on facts, not opinions. You're the exact opposite.

    Kiss the baby.
     
  4. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    You're right. But Briggs was never that good to begin with.
     
  5. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I reckon that's about right,mate. If Bowe had fulfilled his potential he'd have been right up there with Lennox.
     
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  6. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    It's a shame that we couldn't have had Bowe around, in good health of course, for a lot more years, Stevie.
    Perhaps having clashes with Lewis, Foreman, Tyson, Mercer.
    Any of those would have been great, adding to that fantastic era for the big lads.
    But that skill was there, mate, it was on show for a few years.
     
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  7. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Nothing I’ve said is opinion based and I’m not accusing you of it either. It’s the amount of weight you add or deduct from either side.
     
  8. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Says the guy who inflates Frans Botha and Bruce Seldon to the stars
     
  9. Bigcheese

    Bigcheese Well-Known Member Full Member

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    These lists make the 90s seem a bit overrated and very top heavy. The 80s was a better era imo.
     
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  10. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Again, your opinion. I bring in facts. Go to Boxrec to refresh your memory. I know you were around at the time but so was I.

    Seldon is better than Briggs. It's close but we could dissect it if you like? Seldon fought higher ranked fighters and never got KO'd in 3 to someone named Darroll Wilson.

    Seldon beat some past it name fighters to boost his confidence (Ossie Ocasio, David Bey and Jose Ribalta) on his path to getting ranked (Something Foreman did in his comeback). Took 2 consecutive losses, an upset to Olive McCall in a match Seldon was up 8 rounds to 0, and the KO 1 loss to Bowe. Then he rebounded and beat Jesse Ferguson in the same year Ferguson beat Mercer to get a crack at Bowe's titles.

    Took another loss, this time to Tony Tubbs a year after Tubbs gave Bowe a scare. Then beat Greg Page to get a shot at Foreman's former belt against Tucker. Beats Tony Tucker and Joe Hipp consecutively. Not the greatest resume but better than Shannon Briggs.

    Briggs fought no one of note and padded his record to fighters with losing records, even getting KO'd to Wilson, before facing Foreman. Then the loss to Lewis in a barnburner (I was screaming at Briggs to finish Lennox off in that 1st round). Then the draw to Botha in a fight Briggs had all but won, where if Briggs didn't score a knockdown he loses. Then the abysmal loss to Sedrick Fields. Another loss to Jameel McCline. Then a win, a last second KO over Sergei Liakhovic that saw him win the WBO belt. A belt in which he lost in his very first defense to Sultan Ibragimov.

    Should I go on?

    Briggs lost to anyone who was any good. Except the last second KO over Liakhovic. And he lost to a few who were no good at all.

    Briggs had the look of a heavyweight champion. And he did give Lennox one helluva scare!
     
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  11. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    I agree. From top to bottom the 80's heavies were stacked with talent. Don King screwed it up.
     
  12. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    So many potential mega fights in the 90's that we missed out on.
     
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  13. BoB Box

    BoB Box Rollin with the punches Full Member

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    80's vs 90's HW sounds like a good thread.
     
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    Journeyman92 I’m become seeker of milk Full Member

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  15. mirexxa

    mirexxa Heavyweight Champ Full Member

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    1. Holyfield
    2. Lewis
    3. Bowe
    4. Tyson
    5. Foreman
     
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