If you were to create a tournament of all time greats:

I think you meant Yuri Arbachakov.

 

for fun, i'll make a 1980's heavyweight tournament.

Mike Tyson
Tony Tucker
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Gerry Cooney
Bonecrusher Smith
Tony Tubbs
Pinklon Thomas
Gerrie Coetzee
Trevor Berbick
Mike Weaver
Michael Dokes
Carl Williams
Michael Spinks
Buster Douglas
Frank Bruno

Man this would have been way better than the original tournament. Hell you could trhow in Evander Holyfield, i mean he was a cruiserweight-heavyweight from 86-89.

 

I've never really studied the flyweight division, but its amazing how many great names have come from there. Nice list!!

 

Not that much longer. No. I have him succumbing by either the 5th or 6th. The huge difference lays in the style of fighter Rocky was. As a lean-away crouch fighter, he'd be less prone to uppercuts. He'd also be more difficult to push back compared to Frazier, whose dip-and-hook was timed to perfection by a well-advised young Foreman.
Pushing Rocky back would be a different proposition entirely. It would require the pusher to venture into Rocky's punching range.
Foreman would need to find his target first in this fight, whereas Frazier dipped and let himself be shoved.
Should George repeat this tactic against Marciano, you can look for Marciano to retaliate with a curving right overhead in return. That's the difference. In my opinion, Rocky could be effective offensively against Foreman where Frazier was for the most part scrambling and impotent.

Well, naturally, I'm not going to disagree. However, the same concerns I raised previously regarding Foreman-Marciano can also apply for Foreman-Dempsey. Dempsey wouldn't be as easily timed as Frazier and he would have, in my mind, the best chance to launch an effective, definitive offensive salvo against someone like Foreman. It is possible that he is manhandled, in fact I see it as the most likely outcome come to think of it, but for me he is the better fighter. He was not quite the dead fighter Foreman was when confronted with a stylistic quandary; he has a chance in this tournament.