Evander Holyfield, top ten. Name em'!

1. Tyson 1
2. Douglas
3. Bowe 2
4. Moorer 2
5. Qavi
6. Foreman
7. Holmes
8. Carlos de Leon
9. Mercer
10. Rahman

 

He has a great list of big wins. Holy is the only man to defeat 7 lineal HW champions so his resume is full of big names, even though some of them were old (but still world class).

1. Tyson I
2. Bowe II
3. Tyson II
4. Foreman
5. Holmes
6. Qawi I
7. Moorer
8. Douglas
9. Mercer
10. Rahman

 

1. Tyson 1
2. Bowe 2
3. Qawi 1
4. Moorer 2
5. Foreman
6. Holmes
7. Mercer
8. Dokes
9. Douglas
10. Thomas

I rank Tyson over Bowe because of the manner of victory it was a stoppage and a very convincing win in which Holyfield was a huge underdog.

I rank the Qawi win highly due to Holyfield’s inexperience at that time at world level it's a very impressive win.

Again I rank the Moorer win highly due to the manner of victory.

I rank Dokes higher than Douglas, Thomas, simply because he was in good form and came to fight. Douglas was out of shape and just turned up for a paycheck, and Thomas had aged like 10 years over night and looked a shell of himself.

 

Holyfield is a tough one because he definitely has one of the deeper resume's in heavyweight history.

 

This annoys me these lists… Evander fought everybody he could, I doubt he said no to anyone with the cash but why the hell didn't we see him in with Bruno? Plenty of active overlap, Frank was a BIG draw, had it happened in the UK everybody would tune in… size vs skill, Holyfield could beat him bad but he habitually made guys look better then they were whilst Bruno on the odd occasion could rise to the occasion if his mind was right, it’d also visually exceed a Rocky movie... how about Weaver? Ruddock? Or McCall? I think Holy would force all of those to be fun fights… Morrison would be a great keep busy bout similar to Bruno, lots of cash to be made and the fans would love it… Tua was around making some noise… Evander would’ve won ALL of these and made huge wagons of bread me thinks but Holyfield got went at as many as he could, I just wish he was a HW sooner.

 

Bowe 2
Tyson 1
Foreman
Tyson 2
Holmes
Qawi 1
Douglas
Mercer
Moorer 2
Dokes