Boxing.com's heavyweight poll - the result

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  1. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Are you some kind of boxing hipster? Langford Jeffries Wills and Dempsey yet no Lewis, Holyfield, Frazier or Tyson? Hell I'd rather see Kenny Norton, Riddick Bowe and in there instead of Langford and Wills :-(
     
    Webbiano, May 18, 2012
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  2. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well justified, but your kidding yourself if you think the Holmes that Tyson fought was any better than a B fighter.
     
    Webbiano, May 18, 2012
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  3. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    Sorry I should have specified, I do rate that Larry as "Grade B"... my point was that none of those guys beat anyone "Grade A", I thought that was clear? I'd actually say the Willard who Dempsey beat was "Grade C", basically he was no better than someone like Ustinov or Wach at that point in his career.

    Thanks. :good
     
    Kalasinn, May 18, 2012
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  4. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Aaah my mistake bud, took your implications completely wrong. Whostheres list is possibly the worst I have ever seen, alongside Nonito smoak. How anyone can even try and argue that the likes of Jeffries, Langford and Wills above people like Lewis, Tyson, Frazier etc is beyond me.
     
    Webbiano, May 18, 2012
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  5. ChrisPontius

    ChrisPontius March 8th, 1971 Full Member

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    This may be the first time at ESB that someone considers changing his mind in what could be described as a gentleman's exchange of words.
     
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  6. Hands of Iron

    Hands of Iron #MSE Full Member

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    :rofl

    This.

    Funny thing with Smoak however, is that on his P4P list he says people don't appreciate modern fighters and rates Pac/May inside the top 20, predicting Floyd finishes a Top 10 ATG. :huh
     
    Hands of Iron, May 18, 2012
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  7. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Just posted mine :) hehehe

    1. Rocky Marciano
    2. Jack Dempsey
    3. Joe Louis
    4. Muhammad Ali
    5. Jack Johnson
    6. Sonny Liston
    7. Mike Tyson
    8. George Foreman
    9. Larry Holmes
    10. Ezzard Charles
     
    RockysSplitNose, May 18, 2012
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  8. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I reckon that will go down quite well on that website, actually. Except you've no Gene Tunney, those boys are high on Gene.
     
    McGrain, May 18, 2012
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  9. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, only one Gene would've nudged out would be Ez tbh - but then I have Ez down as besting Gene head to head - and then I have Frazier beating Gene as well as Jersey Joe - didn't have time to read all the comments on there so far as am at work but what the general low down on top five say of mine??
     
    RockysSplitNose, May 18, 2012
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  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Well there's no real debate in that thread - in fact, any debate has been scrubbed. The idea is just to vote now then talk about the divisional ranking when it is decided, I think.

    I can't say how well your top 5 will go down but I can say that Louis and Ali aren't regarded as locks for #2 and #1 in the same way they are (Correctly IMO) on here.

    So Dempsey at #1 would be agreed upon/seen as reasonable by many of the writers on the sight, and by the editor and by the organiser of this poll. I expect him to do better than the 8th (I think) he scored in the ESB poll. But we'll see.
     
    McGrain, May 18, 2012
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  11. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    HOOOORRAAAYYYY!!!! :happy:happy come on Demps!!! Let's see the man killer rocke back to the top where he belongs hehe (IMO of course) - cheers for lettin us know McGrain - keep me posted :good
     
    RockysSplitNose, May 18, 2012
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  12. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Ah, he won't make #1 i'm afraid, he's still missing from many lists, but #5 or so might not be out of his reach. He's had a couple of #1's. Problematically though, you get ten points for 1st, 9 points for second etc. under the system, theer's no big bump for being #1.
     
    McGrain, May 18, 2012
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  13. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis could beat half that list in a single night.
     
    Seamus, May 18, 2012
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  14. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No he couldn't??!! How do you know??? Have you been and seen?? Do you own a Delorean with a Flux capacitor?? I need photo graphic evidence to base you findings on at the very least:D
     
    RockysSplitNose, May 18, 2012
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  15. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Mike Casey is right on target :good:good:good
     
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