Worst HW champ H2H?

6’4 260lb Shannon Briggs would knockout 5’7 168lb Burns in the first round

 

6’4 260lb
Big puncher
Very strong and durable
More first round knockouts of any heavyweight champion

10 years later won another scrap of world heavyweight title by knocking out Sergei Liakhovic (who had just spanked Lamon Brewster)

he would kill the primitive small bandy legged white men pre 1920

 

Probably not because Burns would make some effort to evade him, and he had that element in his game.

However you raise a valid point.

Every single lineal heavyweight champion from Sullivan to Usky, had significant physical advantages over Burns.

You wouldn't even need to belittle him to name him as the head to head WOAT.

When you deal with a man the size of Briggs, or indeed Willard or Carnera, their size is likely to count for something against the weaker lineal heavyweight champions.

Either the gap in quality required to overcome the size disparity wont be there, or the size disparity will just be too much.

 

Yes,

burns rates very well p4p especially for his era…

however we literally saw him get rag dolled like a school child around the ring vs 192lb Jack Johnson. Johnson literally clowned him picking him up and swinging him around at will…

imagine against 6’6 260lb PED super heavyweights of the 90s? At 5’7 168lb, it’s inconceivable he can compete

 

Liakhovich was considered a good fighter when Briggs blasted him out of the ring.

 

In journeyman's own words, "A body punch is all placement not power."

So if Joey Archer planted a well-placed hook to Joe Louis' solar plexus, the Bomber would've folded like a lawn chair.

 

That is true. My knowledge of boxing after 2000/2005 is very limited, since my area of research is the 20th century.
While I know Briggs very well, I don't know much about Liakhovic.

 

I agree.

There were even some on the General Forum, who thought that the white wolf was the best heavyweight in the world.

 

Yes he’s on that tier as is Ingo come to think of it.

 

“ALL” suppose it’s my fault for hoping you’d pick up that it’s not literal, sorry you can’t indeed poke Louis in the ribs and he’ll go down LOL carry on.

 

I honestly didn't think of that.

 

Seldon was actually pretty good, but he had a bum chin and a habit of showing off.

 

He was 5 in 2006.

 

Welcome to the forum

 

The only thing super about them was their appetites.