A lot of good reasoning here. I think the biggest thing is just opportunity to do so though. Modern weight divisions don't allow the kind of...
Certain guys frames allow them to move up in weight more effectively. Looking at Duran at higher weights, it seems that he is definitely one of...
Fighting during Larry's prime... 1910s heavyweights, as great as they were, would probably have trouble with refrees, equipment and gloves. With...
Max Baer for an honorable mention. Not exactly skilled, but his frame, strength, speed, and durability alone basically brought him to a...
Quite strange that Takuma is so light hitting. Honestly, I can't think of any other brother world champions where one fighter is a heavy puncher...
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, there never has been a trainer of the year from Asia. Rarely even from outside of the...
Nice point in favor of Ali's opposition. Strangely something I hadn't given much thought too ;possibly because of the lack of heavyweight...
With that in mind, which heavyweights impress you the most in that regard.
Thanks for the response. Fair points for each category. Patterson and Ellis seem comparable to Louis's smaller opponents. The bigger opponents...
How much weight do you put into the variety of opponents beaten in a title run? I started thinking about this in regards to the debate over who...
Mike Gibbons hair looked really light in photos.
I feel like he's our modern day Gene Tunney. A pound for pound fighter, but a bit hard to rate as a heavyweight. Although, if he continued on for...
For retiring with a nice looking record intact: Ricardo Finito Lopez Mayweather Jr.
http://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014146.html#:~:text=Jack%20Dempsey%20was%20known%20to,187%20pounds%20of%20unbridled%20violence. The...
I also wonder how Tunney would have faired against some of the bigger heavyweights that came after him. Tunney vs Max Baer would have been...
