How would you change my top 5 heavyweights

Ali
Foreman
Tyson (pre incarceration)
Louis
Usyk
Honourable mentions in order : Holmes, Holyfield , Frazier, Lewis, Vitali, Dempsey, Marciano, Wlad.

I've ranked with a combination of historical significance, and fighting ability.

This is off the top of my head. Give me a day to think and I may vary it.

 

Louis' era was not basic, he needs to be in the top 5.

 

His historical significance is legendary, a hero to his people at the time.

 

Whenever I've heard the question of who's the greatest heavyweight in history, it's always been the names of Ali and Louis that first pop into my head. After a minute or two of thinking about it, I put Joe at four.

 

The context surrounding his rematch with Schmeling is genuinely hard to believe. It sounds fake, but it's not. A black man in the 1930's being the first to disprove the Nazis' idea of the ubermensch. I've got a friend who is really into history, and I once said to him ''Do you know that a Boxing match is the reason America won WW2 ?". Obviously, that's an exaggeration, but Louis did play a huge part in motivating America to defeat the Nazis. He was the genuine definition of a role model. To think that this was only 30 years after people wanted to burn Jack Johnson at the stake, too. Unbelievable.

 

1) Ali
2) Louis
3) Lewis
4) Holmes
5) Foreman

 

The whole Louis v Schmeling 'Fight of the Century' would have made a great big budget movie also. I wouldn't trust them to make it now though!

 

Great list.

 

I like this skit

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America didn't win WW2... they helped but to say America won WW2 is ridiculous, factually incorrect and dismissive of the many non-Americans who fought to end the Nazi regime. Both of my Grandfathers fought in that war and neither were American.

 

Thanks, it ain't rock science unless you factor in those guys who shone extremely hot for a shorter period, Dempsey, Tyson, Frazier...

 

Come on, don't be that guy that nitpicks every sentence. I know that many countries did their part. My own great great grandfather fought in both of the world wars, and I'm not American either.

 

That's a **** take if ever I saw one. Funny stuff, probably could have done without the kinky **** at the end though !

 

Obviously mine is better but yours looks good.