How would you change my top 5 heavyweights

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  1. MarkusFlorez99

    MarkusFlorez99 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    • Ali
    • Lewis
    • Holmes
    • Wlad/Usyk (subject to change if Fury beats Usyk)
    • Foreman
    Honorable mentions: Louis, Marciano, Dempsey, Liston, Tyson, Holyfield
     
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  2. Dangerwood84

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    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.
     
  3. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Louis' era was not basic, he needs to be in the top 5.
     
  4. Dangerwood84

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    His historical significance is legendary, a hero to his people at the time.
     
  5. Dangerwood84

    Dangerwood84 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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.
     
  6. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

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    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.
     
  7. Seamus

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    1) Ali
    2) Louis
    3) Lewis
    4) Holmes
    5) Foreman
     
  8. Dangerwood84

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    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!
     
  9. Dangerwood84

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    Great list.
     
  10. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

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    I like this skit
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  11. Accurate

    Accurate Jump back, wanna kiss myself! Full Member

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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.
     
  12. Seamus

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

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    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.
     
  14. Dangerwood84

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    That's a **** take if ever I saw one. Funny stuff, probably could have done without the kinky **** at the end though :risas3:!
     
  15. Dangerwood84

    Dangerwood84 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Obviously mine is better but yours looks good:risas3:.