Lineal champ s That Razor Ruddock Beats?

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  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    If Ruddock, at his very best, faced every lineal champ from John L to Fury, who does he more than likely defeat?
    Or at least the highest rated lineal champ? IYO.
     
  2. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    These are all maybes:

    - Shannon Briggs
    - Hasim Rahman
    - Leon Spinks
    - Foreman in 1997 who Briggs fought
    - Buster Douglas of the Holyfield fight
    - ingo Johannson
    - Floyd Patterson
    - Jack Sharkey
    - Primo Carnera
    - John L. Sullivan
    - James Jeffries
    - Jess Willard
    - James Braddock
    - Jim Corbett
    - Fitz ( maybe )
    - Michael Moorer
    Some of them would be no more than a puncher’s chance
     
  3. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Late 70s Ali would get put in the hospital.

    He’d be a dark horse to beat mid 80s Holmes too. He looked good in their sparring videos.
     
  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He'd knock the living yee-haw out of Leon and Michael Spinks.
     
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  5. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    You don’t think Michael would have a shot at all ? I mean you could be right.
     
  6. Claw4075

    Claw4075 Ezzard Charles GOAT Full Member

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    Ruddock probably kills all of them. This man had the hardest left look in boxing history (Frazier had the most effective).
     
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  7. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s banned Full Member

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    :ohno C'mon man.
     
  8. Claw4075

    Claw4075 Ezzard Charles GOAT Full Member

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    What now ?:roto2palm:
     
  9. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He probably things you're trolling.

    Pretty much nobody on this board believes Ruddock would kill ever lineal champ. Prime Holmes and Ali would have had him staggering all over the ring in 12. Joe Louis would have run over him in 7, 70s Foreman as well. The Bowe who beat Holyfield would have stopped him in 8.

    80s Tyson would have slaughtered him quicker than Lewis.

    I'm not even sure Ruddock would get past prime Mike Weaver, to be perfectly straight.
     
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