Heavyweight contenders who fought the most amount of high quality opponents?

Bert Cooper fought:

Luis Ortiz
Joe Mesi
Derrick Jefferson
Chris Byrd
Alex Zolkin
Larry Donald
Corrie Sanders
Mike Weaver
Mike Moorer
Jeremy Williams
Vander Holyfield
Joe Hipp
Riddick Bowe
Ray Mercer
Orlin Norris
George Foreman
Nate Miller
Carl Williams
Tyrone Booze
Henry Tillman

 

Here is the top of my "most HW contenders fought" leaderboard.


78)Langford
52)Battling Levinsky
48)Gunboat Smith
48)Porky Dan Flynn
45)Jeanette
44)Fireman Jim Flynn
44)McVea
44)Risko
41)Louis
41)Ali
40)Loughran
40)Ezzard Charles
36)Bivins
33)Wlad Klitschko
33)Jack Twin Sullivan
32)Tony Ross
32)Jeff Clark
31)Wills
31)Miske
31)Holmes
30)Holyfield

I do not have McVea, Porky Flynn and Jeff Clark counted as HW contenders. Meaning others fights against them aren't counted towards their total.

 

Zora Folley fought:

Muhammad Ali
Sonny Liston
Ernie Terrell
Bob Foster
Eddie Machen (twice)
Oscar Bonavena (twice)
Nino Valdez
George Chuvalo
Henry Cooper (twice)
Karl Mildenberger
Alex Miteff
Bob Cleroux (twice)
Mac Foster
Doug Jones (twice)
Johnny Summerlin
Wayne Bethea (twice)
Mike DeJohn
Paul Andrews

 

That's a crazy list. Bert was one my favorite heavyweights.. Win some, lose some, but fight them all.
He "retired" the hot shot Canadain prospect in his breakout fight. Came close to beating Holyfieild and Moorer.

 

I got one for ya my guy in the division Jospeh Parker…Wilder, Whyte, Ruiz, Zhang, Takam, AJ, Hughie, Chisora x2, Joyce, Wardley, Bakole all of that iron and he’s only 33 it is far from out of the question for him to wind up battling it out with Fury, Usyk, Agit, Hrgovic, Dubios, Ajagba, Makmudov, and Anderson etc he might even have 7 more years on the clock, it would be very unsurprising given the times we live in with PED’s and fewer fights JP’s style seems made to last these days he has an iron chin, very strong, economic counter punching and is solid at 260lbs which might be the source of the new found pop of his? There is a window now and when Usyk retires for him to win the title so he might yet be DQ’d from this sort of list but if nothing else he is one of the finest contenders to ever try at the prize so far.

 

Peter Maher;

Jackson
Lambert
Fitz
McAuliffe
Goddard
Hall
Godfrey
Choynski
Sharkey
Slavin
O'Donnell
Kennedy
Klondike
CC Smith
Ruhlin
McCoy
O'Brien
Hart
Gardiner
Monroe
Dunkhorst
Clarke

 

It's weird to think a guy who started his career in the 1880's went on to fight prime Marvin Hart.