Mickey Walker's best heavyweight wins and the level of his opponents at HW?

I'd say his best wins at HW were over the 27lbs heavier Paulino Uzcudun, 23lbs heavier King Levinsky and Johnny Risko x 2, who was 27lbs and 29lbs respectively heavier.

From a p4p perspective, his win over the 42lbs heavier Bearcat Wright is notable.

Walker beat Risko in 1930 and 31. Ring had Risko #6 at HW in their end of year ratings in 30 and 32. The current ring #6 is Dillian Whyte. Tyson Fury isn't ranked currently by the ring, but he would going by their 1930's guidance, in which case Andy Ruiz would be the #6.

He beat King Levinsky in April 1932. The ring had Levinsky at #4 in their end of 1931 year-end rankings. Zhang is the current Ring #4. AJ would be #4 if they ranked Fury.

 

Most ringsiders thought that he deserved the decision against Jack Sharkey, who was coming off a DQ loss to Max Schmeling for the vacant title, and would defeat Primo Carnera only three months later.

If the decision had gone otherwise, it might have been Walker challenging Schmeling for the title, and not Sharkey.

Outside of that his most impressive feat is probably defeating Johny Risko in 1930.

Risko rebounded with a win over Jim Maloney, and finished the year ranked #6 at heavyweight.

Amazingly he also came very close to being the first fighter to stop Paulino Uzcdun.

 

Great info here, what a fighter Walker was! Arguably the boxer that pfp was originally created for, rather than SRR (who it appears most associated with).

 

I think that in Schmeling he finally took one step too far, and ended up on the wrong end of a beating.

By then it had dawned on Schmeling that middleweight or not, this was one opponent that he could not afford to take lightly.

 

Thanks Blofeld.

I suspect the likes of Risko & Levinsky were as talented/good relative to their era, as similarly ranked HWs today are relative to this era.