Heavyweight ATG top 12 revised

I doubt that I'm in the minority hear when I say that Holmes should be in the top 10. Here's mine:

1. Joe Louis
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Rocky Marciano
4. Larry Holmes
5. Jack Dempsey
6. Jack Johnson
7. George Foreman
8. Sonny Liston
9. Joe Frazier
10. Lennox Lewis
11. Ezzard Charles
12. Evander Holyfield

 

Something like this:

1 Louis
2 Ali
3 Lewis
4 Marciano
5 Frazier
6 Foreman
7 Tyson
8 Holyfield
9 Holmes
10 Dempsey
11 Johnson
12 Jeffries

 

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Good list! :good

 

Here´s mine:


1: Joe Louis
2: Muhammad Ali
3: Rocky Marciano
4: James J. Jeffries
5: Joe Frazier
6: Lennox Lewis
7: Jack Dempsey
8: Jack Johnson
9: George Foreman
10: Larry Holmes
11: Mike Tyson
12: Ezzard Charles

 

1) Dempsey/Ali/Holmes
4) Tunney/Louis
6) Marciano/Frazier
8) Jackson/Corbett
10) Charles
11) Schmeling
12) Holyfield

Honorable mention: Sullivan, Jeffries, Johnson, Walcott, Foreman.

 

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Marciano
4. Holmes
5. Foreman
6. Lewis
7. Liston
8. Johnson
9. Dempsey
10. Holyfield
11. Frazier
12. Charles


note. If Holyfield manage to beat ibragimov he might climb one or 2 spots.
If he manage to beat klitshko, damn.. i rank him 6th

 

How can you call that a good list? That was a terrible list! Marciano in the top 2 is a travesty, Frazier above Foreman is comical, and people like Max Baer over Liston is down right shameful.:-(

Anyway, here's my list, head-to-head of course.

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Sonny Liston
3. George Foreman
4. Mike Tyson
5. Joe Louis
6. Larry Holmes
7. Joe Frazier
8. Jack Johnson
9. Jack Dempsey
10. Lennox Lewis
11. Rocky Marciano
12. Riddick Bowe

:good

 

All variable factors taken into consideration, here'd be my 'Elite' 20:

1. Joe Louis
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Larry Holmes
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4. Lennox Lewis
5. Joe Frazier
6. Rocky Marciano
7. Mike Tyson
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Sonny Liston
10. Jack Dempsey
11. Jack Johnson
12. Jim Jeffries
13. George Foreman
14. Riddick Bowe
15. Floyd Patterson
16. Gene Tunney
17. Ezzard Charles
18. Joe Walcott
19. Sam Langford
20. Max Schmeling

 

Pretty decent list there, mate.

I'd have Lewis and Marciano (the later, mostly due to 49-0) higher, though Rocky would suffer, quite a bit, on a head-to-head basis against these other greats. Louis is a lock on for Top 3 (at least) whilst I would have Foreman lower due to his rather thin resume compared to others on the list.

All purely subjective of course. :good

 

Horrible and ridiculous list, Liston at 2nd, Tyson 4th, Foreman 3rd, Bowe 12th... :rofl

 

Jack Roper instead of Johnny Paychek or Lee Ramage? And where's Leroy Caldwell or Tiger Ted Lowry? "Scrap Iron" instead of Mel Turnbow? And you have Zouski too low. Totally agree with Stallings and Tillis though. Very astute selections there.