Fastest World Heavyweight Champion ever

What is everybodys opinion on who was the fastest World Heavyweight champion ever. The challenge is that we place all of the former world champions in the one place at the one time, we set a course for say 10 miles and we have a race to see who gets there first. How does this race pan out and what order do they finish in?

And by the way, short clotheslines all round for anybody who starts differentiating between hand and footspeed, talking at lenghth about a jab or ability to slip and duck!

 

Yes, there is a reason for the long distance. Long distance running is a large part of boxing training. It used to be probably the most important part, although in recent times weight lifting seems to have taken over. I have heard stories that Muhammed Ali was phenomenal in training over the long distance and that most training partners could not keep up.

Likewise, the likes of Fitzsimmons used to run 10 more than 10 miles a day. Probably harder than the marathon runners of the time if there were any. Rocky was known for long distance running and training hard and always in great shape. Running times of top distance runners have no doubt improved, but i wonder whether people think that modern fighters could still run long distance. Klitchsko for example looks to be in great shape (i dont know his training methods) but i wonder wheter he runs much in training or not. I wonder whether he could keep pace with some of the older greats. I dont think so, but without knowing how he trains, i coudlnt hazard a guess. I would have thought that Ali would be in the running for such a prize, but a corbett or Fitzsimmons would be up there also.

 

Jack Johnson, he once had a match race with a professional driving champ (forget his name)