Best five wins thread. Lineal / Ring Magazine heavyweight champions.

The Griffiths and Slatterey fights were at light heavyweight.

That leaved you with Lewis at 4, and god knows who at five!

 

The Farr fight was controversial though. A lot of people thought he lost.

 

When I made this point early on it was dismissed

 

I can see both sides of the coin. I think that fundamentally was the point he was making though.

The only problem is, is where do you draw the line? We could effectively reduce 95% of the heavyweight fights before the 70s to cruiserweight matchups.

I guess the flip side is that the Cruiserweight division did come a long much later and the light heavyweight division is classified as one of the original 8 weight classes, which is why it’s a tricky one, because you could have someone at 176 pounds fighting a 154 pounder, but that would technically be a heavyweight fight, whereas if you have 2 at 174/175 lbs from a certain point on its classified as a light heavyweight bout.

 

If I understand it correctly, the difference is that those fights did not take place in a lower weight class.

Whatever the participants weighed, the fights were at heavyweight.

 

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with either of the points. We must ask what criterias are we working with and whether or not it warrants flexibility

 

I though Hart's resume was quite good, actually.
OK Braddock:
Baer
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Farr
lewis
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lasky
...dunno..Corn Griffin
terrible resume.

 

Michael Spinks is going to be interesting when the time comes.

 

The heavyweight division has been everything from 154 upward to 200 upward.

I will hold my hands up if I am wrong, but as I understand it, we are only supposed to include fights that were heavyweight fights under the rules of the day.

 

Well, history wouldn't have been kind for Braddock then