Best Resume In Heavyweight Boxing

You don't even mention Louis? :blood

 

lennox lewis.

 

takes Holmes off that list

 

There was filler but it had plenty of good stuff.

 

Do u mean who they beat..
Or just who they fought ?

 

It's important when a fighter fights there opponent. A name is just a name although it looks good on paper. Holyfield has a stellar list of names.

Holmes
Foreman
Bowe (3x)
Tyson (2x)
Lewis (2x)
Right there you have arguably 4 top ten heavyweights of all time and he fought some of them multiple times.

Jack Sharkey is another one with a remarkable list of names.

Joe Louis
Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills
Max Schmeling

 

In terms of just fought and not necessarily beat, Sharkey may have fought more contender than anybody, at least in terms of ratio. He was mixing it up with top 10-20 guys mere months into his career and never slowed down.

All these guys were rated by RING when Sharkey fought them.

Rojas
Maloney x4
Weinert x2
Renault
Solomon x2
Riskox2
Gordman
Godfrey
Willis
Dempsey
Heeney
Stribling
Loughranx2
Schemlingx2
Carnerax2
Walker
Levinsky
Louis


So that's roughly 27(maybe more) of his 53 opponents being contenders.

Nevermind, you have quite a few all time greats there in Dempsey, Louis, Schemling, Walker, Loughran, and Willis.

 

Joe Louis. Only 3 losses and was undefeated in one of the very best heavyweight eras (The Bum of the Month Club).

 

Ali and Louis are the obvious choices, but Holyfield, Lewis, and Wills are all good shout outs as well.

 

Just a mention for Earnie Shavers:

1) Muhammad Ali (HW Champion)
2) Larry Holmes (2x) (HW Champion)
3) Ken Norton (HW Champion)
4) Jimmy Ellis (HW Champion)
5) Jerry Quarry (Fought for title)
6) Jimmy Young (2x) (Fought for title)
7) Ron Lyle (Fought for title)
8) Randall (Tex) Cobb (Fought for title)
9) Joe Bugner (Fought for title)
10) Vicente Rondon (LHW Champion)
11) Bernardo Mercado
12) Jeff Sims
13) James "Quick" Tillis
14) Roy Williams

Pretty good list of champions and contenders of the 1970's/80's. Earnie didn't win them all, but you didn't dare overlook him. How Holmes got off the canvas after that shot still amazes me.

 

James Smith :
Stoppages : Tim Witherspoon , Frank Bruno , Mike Weaver , Everett Martin ,
decisions : Jose Ribalta , Jesse Fergusson , David Bey , Mike Weaver , Mark Wills

James Douglas :
stoppages: Mike Tyson , Mike Williams
decisions : Oliver McCall , Trevor Berbick , Greg Page , Randall Cobb , Dee Collier

Tim Witherspoon :
stoppages : Frank Bruno , Mark Wills*2 , James Tillis , James Broad , Jorge Luis Gonzalez , Levi Billups

decisions : James Smith , Tony Tubbs , Greg Page , Carl Williams , Trevor Berbick , Renaldo Snipes , Mike Williams , Larry Alexander , Jose Ribalta , Alfred Cole , Elieser Castillo


Oliver McCall :
stoppages : Lennox Lewis , Henry Akinwande , Oleg Maskaev , Bruce Seldon

decisions : Larry Holmes , Jesse Fergusson , Fres Oquendo , Lance Whitaker , Sinan Samil Sam , Francesco Damiani , Lionel Butler


David Tua :
Stoppages : John Ruiz , Danell Nicholson , Michael Moorer , Hasim Rahman , Fres Oquendo , Obed Sullivan , David Izon , Gary Bell , Nate Tubbs , Robert Daniels , Darroll Wilson

decisions : Friday Ahunanya , Robert Hawkins
draw : Hasim Rahman





This was an almost pure boxreic listing, just like everyone else do.
Purely boxreically , Mike Tyson clearly has the best winning record.
After him it is a tie between Holmes, Holyfield, Ali and Louis.