For my 5,000th post : My Pound-for-Pound Top 50 Fighters of All-Time..

[quote=PACFAN84]If the list was based purely on ability, Tyson strolls into the top 50, he was as good h2h as any other heavyweight in history, save for maybe 1967 Ali. However, taking resume into account as well, Tyson just misses out. The best fighter he ever beat was Michael Spinks, and he was not a natural hw. Other than that his best wins were Razor Ruddock (who Lewis also beat, and think how far down Lewis's list of best wins that Ruddock is) and probably Pinklon Thomas.

Michael Spinks is a clearly greater fighter p4p than Tyson IMO, and the fact that Tyson beat him easily doesn't change that.[/quote]


all true ( cant agree with the last part ) but i just can't shake the belief that tyson should be up there with the greatest of all time. bloody shame it is .
thing is, i'm more of a casual fan than yourself and the other more expert posters, so i tend to think with my heart rather than my head on issues , and i also can't claim to have seen some of the fighters on your list.
all i know is if there are 50 better fighters than mike tyson then i need to start watching them.

 

if i was to do a top 50 it would get absolutely destroyed on here. so i won't.

 

Hopkins is clearly a greater fighter than Lewis IMO, though there's not much between them and I'm a big big fan of both guys. Tyson's resume is awful.

 

No-one would destroy you for it... except me if I saw names like Herbie Hide, Johnny Nelson, and Ryan Rhodes...

 

This is my top 25 fighters of the past 25 years:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85250&highlight=mccallum+camacho+tapia+tszyu+wright+mayweather+holyfield

Hope that's of some help when deciding on your own list.


Though since that was written I have now moved both Hopkins, Calzaghe and Lopez up a couple of places each.

 

Moore burned off 20lbs of muscle regularly for 10 years????

 

Hmmm, you're not a very big fan of mine nor very big on manners, are you?

I know as much about Hagler as most people on this forum, hence why I rank him 30-40, the same as most other non-biased posters.

I don't think Moore would beat Jones either, but I don't see what relevance that has, this is not an h2h list obviously, it has fighters of all different weights in it.

Barbados is #30 because I think he is the 30th greatest fighter of all-time.

Galindez and Saad Muhammad are not there because I don't think they are in the top 50 fighters of all-time, though Saad Muhammad would certainly be in my top 100.

Same answer for McGovern, thats where I believe he merits. My list, my opinion.