Is it time to expand the list of all time greats to 15 per division?

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  1. RockyValdez

    RockyValdez Active Member Full Member

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    Not for a sport that is now so watered down that only teenage casuals care about it.
     
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  2. PrimoGT

    PrimoGT Member Full Member

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    If that's true, then perhaps the lists are easy to make. If latest is the greatest you just go from now and work back, more or less.
    Heavyweight
    1. Oleksandr Usyk
    2. Daniel Dubois
    3 = Joshua or Fury
    4 Wladimir Klitschko
    5 Vitali Klitschko
    6 Chris Byrd
    7 John Ruiz
    8 Lennox Lewis
    8 Hasim Rahman
    9 Evander Holyfield
    10 Riddick Bowe
    11 Buster Douglas
    12 Mike Tyson
     
  3. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Well its not true. Its objectively false.
     
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  4. Shay Sonya

    Shay Sonya The REAL Wonder Woman! Full Member

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    I am trying to extend mine to 25, then 50.
     
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  5. FighterInTheWind

    FighterInTheWind Active Member Full Member

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    Yup. The same thing with boxing gyms in Korea. The ones who show up are not the ones who want to become fighters, but the ones who want to lose weight. I guess boxing, at least as a profession, is becoming a poor man's sport.
     
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    FighterInTheWind Active Member Full Member

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    This is my view. In fact, some divisions don't have enough noteworthy fighters to even have a top 10 much less top 15!
     
  7. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It was at that point in the 40s or 50s for the core divisions. If not earlier. Tweeners are usually pit stops so all their ATGs are associated with other weight classes.
     
  8. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    for how young and shallow the division is, i think it's set on stone that the top 4 cruiserweights ever are #1 Holyfield, #2 Usyk, #3 Carlos De Leon, 4# Qawi