HW resume against opponents who have, at one time or another, featured in the top 10.

I made a mistake as Solis was rated back in 2014, sorry! In fact he was rated as high as #6 in the World, so I stand corrected!

Vitali Klitschko 14-2-0 (12)
Ribalta, Hide, Byrd, Norris, Donald, Lewis, Johnson, Sanders, Williams, Peter, Gomez, Arreola, Johnson, Briggs, Solis, Adamek (16)

 

Deontay Wilder 7-1-1 (6 KOs)
Liakhovich, Stiverne 1, Arreola, Stiverne 2, Ortiz 1, Fury 1, Breazeale, Ortiz 2, Fury 2 (9 total fights)

Alexander Povetkin 6-2-1 (4 KOs)
Byrd, Chambers, Chagaev, Rahman, Klitschko, Perez, Joshua, Hunter, Whyte 1 (9 total fights)

Anthony Joshua 7-1-0 (5 KOs)
Whyte, Breazeale, Klitschko, Parker, Povetkin, Ruiz 1, Ruiz 2, Pulev (8 total fights)

Andy Ruiz 3-2 (2 KOs)
Liakhovich, Parker, Dimitrenko, Joshua 1, Joshua 2 (5 total fights)

Dillian Whyte 3-2 (0 KOs)
Joshua, Helenius, Parker, Rivas, Povetkin1 (5 total fights)

Joseph Parker 2-2 (1 KO)
Dimitrenko, Ruiz, Joshua, Whyte (4 total fights)

Tyson Fury 2-0-1 (1 KO)
Klitschko, Wilder 1, Wilder 2 (3 total fights)

 

I don't see Jose Ribalta, Larry Donald, Danny Williams or Kevin Johnson in any Ring year-end ratings from 1980 to 2019, which would put Vitali at 10-2-0.

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1980s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1990s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--2000s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--2010s

 

I go by the monthly ratings not the end of the year. Some fighters are rated like 10 months but not at the end of the year and others are only rated at the end of the year.

Vitali Klitschko 14-2-0 (12)
Ribalta, Hide, Byrd, Norris, Donald, Lewis, Johnson, Sanders, Williams, Peter, Gomez, Arreola, Johnson, Briggs, Solis, Adamek (16)

 

Also, under Chris Byrd ... I don't see Bert Cooper, Jose Ribalta or Jimmy Thunder in any Ring heavyweight ratings, which drops him to 7-4-1.

Also, under Shannon Briggs ... the Jimmy Ellis who Briggs fought was never rated in the Ring top 10. EVER. (LOL) Neither was Frans Botha. Which makes Briggs total record as 3-4.

Under Michael Moorer ... Cooper, Botha and Axel Shulz weren't rated in Ring year-end ratings, which puts Moorer at 2-3.

Under Bowe ... remove Cooper and Ferguson (Ferguson wasn't in any Ring year-end ratings) ... and Bowe drops to 11-1.

Under Foreman ... remove Cooper, Shulz, Ellis (not the right Ellis), and Boone Kirkman wasn't rated in the Ring Year-end ratings in the 60s or 70s ... which drops George to 12-5 overall.

More later.

 

Ribalta, Donald, Kevin Johnson and Danny Williams weren't rated by Ring in any Ring Year-end ratings at any point.

I posted the links to those year end ratings for the decades of the 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s. They aren't there.

That makes him 10-2. Not 14-2.

 

What months/years were Jose Ribalta, Larry Donald, Kevin 'Kingpin' Johnson and Danny Williams rated in the top 10 by RING?

Because those would've been pretty sad top 10s. (LOL)

Or Jimmy Thunder? Or the Jimmy Ellis who Briggs and Foreman fought? Or Jesse "Boogieman" Ferguson?

 

If your just doing end of the year that's OK But what happened to the other 11 months!

Here's what I have on Foreman:
George Foreman 17-5-0 (15)
Wepner, Kirkman, Chuvalo, Peralta (x2), Frazier (x2), Roman, Norton, Ali, Lyle, LeDoux, Young, Cooper, Cooney, Rodrigues, Holyfield, Stewart, Coetzer, Morrison, Moorer, Briggs (20)
PLUS - Qawi, Russell, Williamson (these are fighters that he fought that weren't rated as a heavyweight But was rated in another weight class)

 

Boone Kirkman isn't included in any Ring year-end rating. Neither is Bert Cooper. Neither is Pierre Coetzer. Neither is Alex Stewart. What months/years were they rated by Ring?

If you want to include them, show us what months/years they were rated by Ring. I remember when some of those guys were rated by the WBO or the IBF, but not Ring. If we're doing sanctioning body ratings, then a lot of people will have a lot more opponents.

Otherwise, that would put George at 13-5 in cluster above.

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1960s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1970s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1980s
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Heavyweight--1990s

 

Ribalta - Sept 1987 to Nov 1987
Donald - July 1994 to March 1995 (rated as high as #6)
Johnson - Dec 2009 to Feb 2010
Williams - Early 2005

 

Boone Kirkman - was rated for 18 months from 1968 to 1974, his highest rating was #7
Bert Cooper was rated 1986 and 1987.
Pierre Coetzer was rated from Aug 1991 to Nov 1991
Alex Stewart was rated for 12 months starting Aug 1990

 

Dubblechin you have Bowe at 11-1, here's what I have:

Riddick Bowe 15-1-0 (10)
Butler, Thomas, Cooper, Biggs, Tubbs, Seldon, Coetzer, Holyfield (x3), Dokes, Donald, Hide, Gonzalez, Golota (x2) (13)

 

This just isn't true. I checked the first two. I have the ratings for Sept 87, in the issue with Michael Spinks and Butch Lewis on the cover. Ribalta isn't in the ratings. He's just not there.

I have the Jan. 1995 ratings in the issue with the headline the State of the Game, and it's Larry Holmes who is rated ... NOT Larry Donald.

I know Williams wasn't rated after Vitali demolished him.

I can scan the pages and post them tomorrow, but I'm going to bed now. I'll check the rest tomorrow. But three of the four here are simply wrong. I don't know how you confuse Larry Holmes with Larry Donald.

 

If Alex Stewart was rated for 12 months beginning in Aug 1990, he'd have been in the year-end ratings that year. He's not. I just checked the 87 ratings, the issue I picked up had no Bert Cooper.

I'll scan the pages tomorrow. But every one of these I just checked a few minutes ago that I have an issue of the magazine doesn't include these guys you are saying were rated.