187 Holyfield against this Heavyweights

He would have done far better against Bruno, McCall and Briggs compared to Charles, I picked the heavyweight here because they are really overrated and I picked Charles because I feel if Charles could have fought at 187 vs Holy or anybody in his day he would have beaten so as a heay he would have destroyed Holyfield.

 

What a long list ! First of all this 187 lbs Holy berbicked Qawi who wasn't a prime version.
But i think lot of listed fighters were prime versions.Big difference ! (Don't forget Qawi's Ossie loss !) Considering this his Qawi win proves nothing and i think Baer,Lyle,Witherspoon,Thomas,Berbick,Bruno,McCall,Ibeabuchi,Briggs would have beaten Holy . I can see very big Holy chance against in the glass-chinned Patterson,old Ortiz,Cooney ,Sharkey cases.
50%-50% :Morrison,Tua,Charles,Walcott.

 

KOs Sharkey
UDs Baer
Losses via UD to Charles
Losses via UD to Walcott (both close)
KOs Patterson
KOs Lyle
KOs Cooney
UDs/TKOs Witherspoon
Still TKOs Thomas
UDs Berbick
KOs Bruno
KOs Morrison
UDs McCall
UDs Tua
UDs Ike? Maybe
TKOs Briggs
KO/TKOs Ortiz

 

You mean off? Also, you didnt even mention Marciano. For what it's worth, I just rate Charles and Walcott higher than everyone else you listed. I even said I didn't know with Ike, due to being unproven

 

Qawi beat Ocasio easily, was blatantly robbed. Briggs wouldn't have beaten any Holy - maybe just 48 y.o. Holy.

 

Exactly

 

The 25 year old 187lb Holyfield who berbicked Qawi in 4 rounds against

Jack Sharkey (1932) KO's Sharkey
Max Baer (1933) UD's Baer
Ezzard Charles (1950) Dec Charles, possibly KO's him, Charles likes to brawl too much for an old fighter
Joe Walcott (1951) KO's Walcott, too much stamina, too much yout
Floyd Patterson (1960) Good match. Close decision to Holy
Ron Lyle (1976) Toss up. Holy's penchant to brawl could cost him.
Gerry Cooney (1982) Holy weathers early storm to win Dec. A few years later Holy would KO him.
Tim Witherspoon (1983) Upset Alert! Witherspoon takes a close dec.
I'm out of steam... Will return.

 

I actually agree with most of this assessment except for Briggs. In my opinion, Briggs is the worst of the bunch. There's no way Holyfield, who in his own prime struggled with lesser fighters than the ones mentioned, would win every match. The 25 year old version could conceivably come out of this with a losing record.