5 BEST Light Heavyweight of All Time?

Gene Tunney, Harry Greb, Michael Spinks, Ezzard Charles ...

... maybe Bob Foster.


I could name five more who are perhaps as good though.

 

Foster
Spinks
Moore
Charles
Loughran


As noted before, another list replacing one or two of tose could be just as good.

 

Spinks

 

If you're talking about the best LHWs h2h then Qawi's name has to , at the very least, be mentioned. I see him giving every LHW in history nightmares. Before mentioning the Spinks fight, remember that he wasn't even close to 100%.

Here's my h2h list for LHW:

1) Qawi
2) Spinks
3) Moorer
4) RJJ
5) Foster

 

Archie Moore,Bob Foster,Roy Jones,Mike Spinks,maybe all on a par for me plus great favourite of mine,Harold Johnson.

 

Forgot Charles,dont know why,must have been great,even a weight down.

 

**** it I ain't playing by the rules.


1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3 .Gene Tunney
4. Micheal Spinks
5. Harold Johnson
6. Billy Conn
7. Maxie Rosenbloom
8. Bob Foster
9. Tommy Loughran
10.Jimmy Bivins

 

This is from a thread in the lounge but what are peoples thoughts on Charles and Greb's LHW accomplishments compared to eachother?

Comparison

Tunney - Moore
Loughren - Walcott
Rosenbloom - Yarosz
Levinsky - Maxim
Mctigue - Bivins
Gibbons - Marshall
Dillon - Lesnevich
Slatterly - Ray

 

Surprised nobody mentioned Ruby Robert Fitsimmons

 

I hold spinks in a very high regard head to head, its too bad he only fought 32 times.

 

Ezzard Charles
Archie Moore
Gene Tunney
Sam Langford
Greb
Billy Conn
Loughran
Harold Johnson
Michael Spinks
Bob Foster

 

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Good choices along with Charles.

 

I like this list a lot. Not quite in the order that I'd put those names, but a terrific list.