Fights that would measure fighters across time.

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  1. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Heavyweight:

    Johnson vs Dempsey
    Dempsey vs Louis
    Louis vs Ali
    Ali vs Tyson

    I would like to have thrown in Marciano, Liston, Foreman, Holmes, Lewis & Wlad....but with only 4 measurables this is where I would choose to go.

    I guess if I wanted less emphatic data on individuals, and hoped that the broader test of eras might be accurate or at least imformative

    Johnson vs Lewis
    Louis vs Ali
    Liston vs Wlad
    Dempsey vs Holmes
     
    PhillyPhan69, Apr 17, 2012
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  2. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    LHW

    Bob Fitzsimmons vs Tommy Loughran
    Tommy Loughran vs Ezzard Charles
    Ezzard Charles vs Bob Foster
    Bob Foster vs Michael Spinks
     
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  3. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Interesting choices.

    No curiousity as to how a prime RJJ would do against a great LHW ?
     
    cuchulain, Apr 17, 2012
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  4. PhillyPhan69

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    I am clearly not as high on RJJ as others are at LHW...At MW/SMW I think he is a monster!
     
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  5. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    He was also formidable at LHW, as dominant as any LHW I can recall.

    Thing is, there were no GREAT LHWS around to test him to the exterem.

    So there are questions of how he would fare against Foster and Spinks and Moore and such.
     
    cuchulain, Apr 18, 2012
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  6. PhillyPhan69

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    For me there is not really as much of a question as an answer (my own opinion of course), and that answer is not very well. I don't rate SRR nearly as high as most do at MW either, while I think he is near unbeatable at WW. I have never been sold on RJJ against high caliber LHW opponents...I am fairly certain that I am in the minority and that is cool...either way it is only the diversity of opinion that makes this forum worthwhile....so we will have to agree to disagree in evaluating Jones jr. among the other ATG LHW's.
     
    PhillyPhan69, Apr 18, 2012
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