1. Evander Holyfield 2. Carlos DeLeon 3. Dwight Qawi 4. Ossie Ocasio 5. Alfonso Ratliff 6. S.T. Gordon 7. Marvin Camel 8. Lee Roy Murphy 9. Rickey Parkey 10. Piet Crous 11. Bernard Benton 12. Bash Ali
Good list. I like Qawi a little more than DeLeon and Murphy a little higher on the list. The Cruiserweight division is so good right now. Uysk is undoubtedly the king right now but there are a lot of good fighters at 200 that are fun to watch.
Yeesh, when Ossie Ocasio is the 4th best fighter of an era... I don't want to bash anybody but wow this crowd is really weak. Carlos De Leon has gotta be the worst multiple time titlist ever, or am I forgetting anybody? Eventually we found out that the division was only weak because it was new, a target for pudgy light heavyweights or sawed off heavyweights. Now we now that elite cruiserweights have roughly the same size as titans of history like Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, and Patterson.
As mentioned a weak list. Too many pudgy (lazy/old) Light Heavies and not enough 'small' Heavies. As for the order of the list; to misquote Eric Morecambe: Generally all the right names are there, just not necessarily in the right order.
I think they pretty much got it right. DeLeon was really good from 80-85 except for the shock defeat to ST Gordon when he tried to trade with the powerful Gordon, who was a huge CW. In the rematch he used his skills to basically shut Gordon out. He started to fade after the bad effort against Ratliff. By the time he lost to Holyfield his legs were going and he was like 50 percent of what he was at his peak. He was like Benitez both in style and that he turned pro very young - around age 15. By 29 or 30, he was past it.
