Heavyweight Champion Resumes since 1930

That is my intention.

I have all of matt d's rankings as well as enough old clippings to last a lifetime. I intend to do from sullivan to tunney as well as the notable coloured champions.

Once i've completed them i'll post all the results together in a new thread but until then i'll update them on here as I do them.

 

Thank you.

Once i've completed the research i'll create a new thread. I still want to do from john l until gene as well as the great coloured champions. I'll keep updating on here until i've completed it.

 

I love this stuff. Been trying to get a list like this together for a while myself but hell, I'm barely even on the boards anymore. Great great work.

Also, I told you guys Ezzard Charles wuz 4 realz at Heavyweight.

 

Thanks.

Mos def, couldn't believe his heavyweight resume considering what he'd already achieved at lower weights.

 

Not only Charles but also other lhws like Loughran, Moore, H. Johnson, they´ve got superb hw resumes with more 30+ fights and most of them at least against fringe contenders but never get taken seriously as hws. Sadly.

 

Even before then, guys like choynski and fitzsimmons.

There seems to be considerable number of light heavy's stepping up and beating a number of contenders losing only to the champ and the resume they amass gets overlooked.

 

When Choinsky was around the lhw division didn´t exist, he was a hw. Similar for Fitz but he was able to fight at the lhw division since it came into existence during the latter part of his career. But yeah, you are right. Those fighters are too often written of as "blown-up" lhws. :-(

 

Both began at middleweight from what I can gather and I imagine had the lhw division been created sooner they'd have campaigned there but obviously I can never prove that.

Yeah too often it does get said and it's disrespectful to the heavyweights of the day that got defeated by these so called lightheavyweights.

 

In their last meeting, I'd say Moore and H. Johnson was really fighting for the #1 Heavyweight spot despite RING still only ranking them as LHW. Between the two fo them they were coming off wins over every top contender in Valdez, Charles, Satterfield, Baker, and Maxim.

 

Ok I've now done from tunney down using Matt D's rankings and clippings I can find to see who notable contenders were. Also used CBZ's bio pagea and cox's corner as well. Just incase anyone wants to cross reference my stuff, here are matt d's rankings

1892

Champion Corbett
2. Jackson
3. Goddard
4. Slavin
5. Choynski
6. Fitzsimmons
7. Hall
8. Godfrey
9. McAuliffe
10. Kilrain


1893

Champion Corbett
2. Jackson
3. Fitzsimmons
4. Denver Smith
5. Hall
6. Goddard
7. Slavin
8. Choynski
9. McAuliffe
10. Godfrey

1894

Champion Corbett
2. Jackson
3. Fitzsimmons
4. Smith
5. Choynski
6. Maher
7. Goddard
8. Hall
9. Slavin
10. Godfrey

1895

Champion Maher
2. Fitzsimmons
3. Jackson
4. Slavin
5. Smith
6. Choynski
7. Felix
8. Hall
9. Creedon
10. O’Donnell

1896

Champion Corbett
2. Fitzsimmons
3 Maher
4. Choynski
5. Sharkey
6. Armstrong
7. Creedon
8. Goddard
9. Ruhlin
10. O’Donnell


1897

Champion Fitzsimmons
2. Maher
3. Sharkey
4. Choynski
5. Childs
6. Corbett
7. Ruhlin
8. Jeffries
9. O’Donnell
10. Armstrong

1898

Champion Fitzsimmons
2. Jeffries
3. Sharkey
4. Maher
5. Corbett
6. McCoy
7. Ruhlin
8. Childs
9. Armstrong
10. Choynski

1899

Champion Jeffries
2. Sharkey
3. Fitxsimmons
4. Maher
5. McCoy
6. Corbett
7. Kennedy
8. Ruhlin
9. Childs
10. Martin


1900

Champion Jeffries
2 Fitzsimmons
3 Corbett
4 McCoy
5 Ruhlin
6 Sharkey
7 Childs
8 Maher
9 Kennedy
10 Martin

1901

Champion Jeffries
2 Ruhlin
3 McCoy
4 Childs
5 Sharkey
6 Root
7 Martin
8 Maher
9 Griffin
10 Gardner

1902

Champion Jeffries
2 Fitzsimmons
3 Ruhlin
4 Martin
5 Johnson
6 Gardner
7 O’Brien
8 Root
9 Hart
10 Carter

1903

Champion Jeffries
2 Fitzsimmons
3 Johnson
4 Ruhlin
5 Gardner
6 Root
7 Hart
8 O’Brien
9 Armstrong
10 McVey

1904

Champion Jeffries
2 Johnson
3 Hart
4 Root
5 O’Brien
6 Gardner
7 Ruhlin
8 Ferguson
9 Martin
10 McVey

1905

Champion Hart
2 Johnson
3 O’Brien
4 Jeanette
5 Root
6 Fitzsimmons
7 Ruhlin
8 Kaufman
9 J Twin Sullivan
10 Schreck

1906

Champion Burns
2 Johnson
3 O’Brien
4 Langford
5 Jeanette
6 McVey
7 Kaufman
8 Schreck
9 Hart
10 Ruhlin

1907

Champion Burns
2 Johnson
3 Kaufman
4 Langford
5 Jeanette
6 McVey
7 O’Brien
8 Schreck
9 Jim Flynn
10 Sullivan

1908

Champion Johnson
2 Langford
3 Kaufman
4 Burns
5 Jeanette
6 McVey
7 O’Brien
8 Hart
9 Ross
10 Schreck

1909

Champion Johnson
2 Langford
3 Jeanette
4 McVey
5 Kaufman
6 Ketchell
7 O’Brien
8 Ferguson
9 Lang
10 Schreck

1910

Champion Johnson
2 Langford
3 Jeanette
4 McVey
5 Kaufman
6 Burns
7 Lang
8 Jim Flynn
9 Dan Flynn
10 Curran

1911

champion Johnson
2 McVey
3 Langford
4 Jeanette
5 Wells
6 Jim Flynn
7 Al Palzar
8 Carl Morris
9 Dan Flynn
10 Clarke

1912

Champion Johnson
2 Langford
3 Jeanette
4 McVey
5 Gunboat Smith
6 Willard
7 Ross
8 Mc Carthy
9 Jim Flynn
10 Palzar

1913

Champion Johnson
2 Smith
3 Langford
4 Jeanette
5 McVey
6 Jim Johnson
7 Pelkey
8 Willard
9 Moran
10 Carpentier

1914

Champion Johnson
2 Langford
3 Jeanette
4 McVey
5 Carpentier
6 Clarke
7 Dillon
8 Wills
9 Levinsky
10 Coffey

1915

Champion Willard
2 Johnson
3 Moran
4 Dillon
5 Wills
6 McVey
7 Jeanette
8 coffey
9 Langford
10 Morris

1916

CHAMPION Willard
2 Wills
3 Miske
4 Dillon
5 Morris
6 Levinsky
7 Moran
8 Weinert
9 McVey
10 Jeanette

1917

Champion Willard
2 Wills
3 Fulton
4 Langford
5 Norfolk
6 Miske
7 Greb
8 Dempsey
9 Jeanette
10 Gibbons



1918

Champion Willard
2 Wills
3 Dempsey
4 Fulton
5 Gibbons
6 Greb
7 Miske
8 Meehan
9 Madden
10 Jeanette

1919

Champion Dempsey
2 Wills
3 Fulton
4 Greb
5 Gibbons
6 Carpentier
7 Miske
8 Johnson
9 Norfolk
10 Brennan

1920

Champion Dempsey
2 Wills
3 Fulton
4 Greb
5 Gibbons
6 Carpentier
7 Miske
8 Norfolk
9 Tunney
10 Weinert

1921

Champion Dempsey
2 Wills
3 Fulton
4 Gibbons
5 Tunney
6 Carpentier
7 Miske
8 Greb
9 Beckett
10 Brennan

1922

Champion Dempsey
2 Wills
3 Greb
4 Gibbons
5 Miske
6 Tunney
7 F.Johnson
8 Brennan
9 Beckett
10 Carpentier

1923

Champion Dempsey
2 Wills
3 Firpo
4 Tunney
5 Carpentier
6 Miske
7 Gibbons
8 Greb
9 Renault
10 F.Johnson

 

now here are the resume breakdowns I could find, obviously the earlier we go the more erroneuos it can get with conflicting reports etc, and boxrec this early on is increasingly more unreliabe. But this is the best I could do.

Gene Tunney 9-0-0 (4)
Weinert (x2), Spalla, Greb, Gibbons, Risko, Dempsey (x2), Heeney (7)

Dempsey 21-5-3 (13)
J. Flynn (x2), Meehan (x5), Smith (x2), Morris (x3), Brennan (x2), Miske (x3), Pelkey, D. Flynn (x2), Fulton, Levinski, Willard, Carpentier, Gibbons, Firpo, Tunney (x2), Sharkey (16)

Willard 5-3-1 (2)
Pelkey, McCarthy, Smith, Morris, J. Johnson, Moran, Dempsey, F. Johnson, Firpo (9)

Johnson 27-5-5 (7)
Choynski, Griffin (x3), Childs (x2), Gardner, Martin (x2), McVey (x3), Ferguson (x4), Hart, Jeanette (x7), Langford, Fitzsimmons, Felix, J. Flynn (x2), Burns, Ross, Kaufman, Ketchel, Jeffries, Jim Johnson, Moran, Willard (21)

Burns 5-2-2 (3)
Hart, Flynn, O’Brien (x2), Lang (x2), J.Johnson, Pelkey, Beckett (7)

Hart 8-5-3 (3)
Choynski, Carter, Gardner, Ferguson, Ruhlin (x2), J.Johnson, Root, Burns, Schrek (x3), Maher, Twin Sullivan, Ross, Morris (12)

Jeffries 12-1-2 (9)
Griffin (x2), Ruhlin (x2), Choynski, Goddard. Jackson, Sharkey (x2), Fitzsimmons (x2), Corbett (x2), Kennedy, J.Johnson (10)

Fitzsimmons 5-5-0 (5)
Maher, Sharkey (x2), Corbett, Jeffries (x2), Ruhlin, O’Brien, Johnson, Lang (8)

Corbett 7-4-2 (5)
Donaldson, Choynski, Kilrain, McCaffrey, Sullivan, Mitchell, Sharkey (x2), Fitzsimmons, McCoy, Jackson, Jeffries (x2) (11)

Sullivan 7-1-3 (5)
Donaldson, Dalton, Ryan (x2), Elliot, Mitchell, Slade, Mcaffrey, Kilrain, Burke, Corbett (10)

 

corbett pleasantly surprised me actually, i never realised how great he looked up until the fitz loss at age 31.

will have to seriously rethink my ranking of him

 

i'll be doing the legendary couloured champions next: wills, jeanette, mcvea and langford. This will take me quite a long time I imagine so I'll update it again on here once I've done.

Upon finalising these 4 I might make a new thread with all the results on it but I'm not too sure yet...