2026 TOP 10 ALL-TIME HEAVYWEIGHTS SURVEY - RESULTS!

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  1. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Took me long enough to compile this, but here we go!

    Results based on the 32 lists submitted here: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/2026-top-10-all-time-heavyweights-survey.752067/

    Number 1 on each list got 10 points, number 2 got 9, all up to the number 10 receiving 1 point.

    Thank you very much for participating, here go the results:

    10. Evander Holyfield

    Overall points scored: 69
    Present on 20 lists
    In the Top 5 on na 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 4

    9. Jack Johnson

    Overall points scored: 70
    Present on 15 lists
    In the Top 5 on 6 lists
    In the Top 3 on 2 lists
    Highest place on the list: 2

    8. Wladimir Klitschko

    Overall points scored: 75
    Present on 18 lists
    In the Top 5 on 6 lists
    Highest place on the list: 4

    7. Mike Tyson

    Overall points scored: 87
    Present on 27 lists
    In the Top 5 on 3 lists
    In the Top 3 on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 3

    6. Rocky Marciano

    Overall points scored: 111
    Present on 19 lists
    In the Top 5 on 13 lists
    In the Top 3 on 3 lists
    Highest place on the list: 3

    5. George Foreman

    Overall points scored: 128
    Present on 27 lists
    In the Top 5 on 11 lists
    In the Top 3 on 2 lists
    Highest place on the list: 3

    4. Larry Holmes

    Overall points scored: 206
    Present on 31 lists
    In the Top 5 on 24 lists
    In the Top 3 on 13 lists
    Highest place on the list: 2

    3. Lennox Lewis

    Overall points scored: 213
    Present on 32 lists
    In the Top 5 on 26 lists
    In the Top 3 on 14 lists
    Number 1 on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 1

    2. Joe Louis

    Overall points scored: 286
    Present on 32 lists
    In the Top 5 on 31 lists
    In the Top 3 on 28 lists
    Number 1 on 9 lists
    Highest place on the list: 1

    1. Muhammad Ali

    Overall points scored: 309
    Present on 32 lists
    In the Top 5 on 32 lists
    In the Top 3 on 32 lists
    Number 1 on 22 lists
    Highest place on the list: 1

    Heavyweights that didn't make the Top 10:

    11. Joe Frazier (Smokin' Joe missed the Top 10 by 1 point!)

    Overall points scored: 68
    Present on 21 lists
    In the Top 5 on 2 lists
    Highest place on the list: 5

    12. Sonny Liston

    Overall points scored: 44
    Present on 14 lists
    In the Top 5 on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 5

    13. Jack Dempsey

    Overall points scored: 37
    Present on 11 lists
    In the Top 5 on 2 lists
    In the Top 3 on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 3

    14. Oleksandr Usyk

    Overall points scored: 32
    Present on 10 lists
    In the Top 5 on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 4

    15. Vitali Klitschko

    Overall points scored: 12
    Present on 3 lists
    Highest place on the list: 6

    16. John L. Sullivan

    Overall points scored: 3
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 8

    16. Jim Jeffries

    Overall points scored: 3
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 8

    18. Gene Tunney

    Overall points scored: 2
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 9

    18. Ezzard Charles

    Overall points scored: 2
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 9

    18. Riddick Bowe

    Overall points scored: 2
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 9

    21. Harry Wills

    Overall points scored: 1
    Present on 1 list
    Highest place on the list: 10
     
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  2. DavidA

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  3. Claude

    Claude Member Full Member

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    The fact Wladimir Klitschko and Johnson made the top 10 but Frazier didn’t is crazy.
     
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  4. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Great work, mate, thank you.
     
  5. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Frazier didn't make it by only 1 point, so you can easily swap him with Holyfield.
     
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  6. OddR

    OddR Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What's interesting is this gap Lewis and Holmes have over those below even if I would have predicted the placing. Ali and Louis obviously expected.
     
  7. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, over the past decade or so they've developed into a near consensus 3 and 4, in one order or the other.
     
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    OddR Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I mean I could easily be wrong but based on what I have seen it feels like it's possibly even more a consensus than a couple years ago.
     
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  9. brb

    brb Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Johnson has always been an old-timer favorite. Wlad accomplished much more than Frazier and would probably have done better against Ali & Foreman. If you go 1-4 against your peers you don't deserve to be in the top 10.
     
  10. brb

    brb Boxing Addict Full Member

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    List isn't bad. I don't like Holyfield at 10. I think Dempsey should be in there.
     
  11. ThatOne

    ThatOne Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I might quarrel with the list, but never the work put into it. Great work.
     
  12. Noel857

    Noel857 I Am Duran

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    This is great @MaccaveliMacc, agree with 8/10.Thanks for doing this its a herculean effort from you
     
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  14. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Loyal Member

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    Vitali is comically high for a guy whose best win is Sam Peter or Corrie Sanders.

    Holmes mania continues to run wild. #4 for beating Norton and Witherspoon? You all know in your heart is isn't true.
     
  15. JohnThomas1

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    That's certainly not the worst list I've seen. Good work Macc.
     
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