linear heavyweight title...try to help w/o lookin up

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  1. Illmatic

    Illmatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    did this in class while i shouldve been listenin. see if you can help without lookin up...im slippin in b/w sullivan and dempsey

    Lennox Lewis
    Hasim Rahman
    Lennonx Lewis
    Shannon Briggs
    George Foreman
    Michael Moorer
    Evander Holyfield
    Riddick Bowe
    Evander Holyfield
    Buster Douglass
    Mike Tyson
    Michael Spinks
    Larry Holmes
    Muhammad Ali
    Leon Spinks
    Muhammad Ali
    George Foreman
    Joe Frazier
    Muhammad Ali
    Sonny Liston
    Floyd Patterson
    Ingo Johannsen
    Floyd Patterson
    Rocky Marciano
    Joe Walcott
    Ezzard Charles
    Joe Louis
    Jim Braddock
    Max Baer
    Primo Carnera
    Jack Sharkey
    Gene Tunney
    Jack Dempsey


    then a cluster in no order...

    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Jack Johnson
    Jim Corbett
    John L. Sullivan
     
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  2. LeonMcS

    LeonMcS The Mayor of Kronkton Full Member

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    Dempsey beat Willard for the title.
     
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  3. LeonMcS

    LeonMcS The Mayor of Kronkton Full Member

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    Willard beat Johnson.

    Johnson beat Tommy Burns in Sydney.
     
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  4. LeonMcS

    LeonMcS The Mayor of Kronkton Full Member

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    Jim Jeffries is in there somewhere as well.
     
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  5. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Marvin Hart beat former Light Heavyweight champ Jack Root for the vacant title in 1905.

    Max Schmeling beat Jack Sharkey for the vacant title in 1930.

    Ezzard Charles beat Jersey Joe Walcott in 1946 for Joe Louis' vacant title.

    Floyd Patterson, who was a new contender, beat Archie Moore, who was old, for the vacant title.

    Frazier beat Jimmy Ellis in 1970 for the vacant title. Although later he beat Ali, who had been the last champ.

    Wlad vs. Iggy for recognition as Champ? After all:

    -Wlad has already beaten former #1's like Brewster and Byrd, and has already beaten another recent top contender in Peter.
    -Maskaev is old as **** and inactive. Chagaev will be fighting Skelton in a JOKE fight.
    -This is also unification.
     
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  6. Illmatic

    Illmatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    THATS who i couldnt remember...:patsch

    for the LIFE of me I couldnt remember his damn name. good work guys...and NO LOOKING UP!
     
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  7. Illmatic

    Illmatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    good work, i couldnt remember where schmeling fit into it all...and I know sharkey was champ at one point, cant remember when tho.
     
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  8. LeonMcS

    LeonMcS The Mayor of Kronkton Full Member

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    I know Johnson beat Jeffries after Jeffries came back from retirement. Have no idea though who Jeffries won the title from without looking it up.
     
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  9. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The early era is like this:

    Corbett (beat Sullivan for the first title under Queensberry rules, so I count him as first champ)
    Fitzsimmons
    Jeffries (retires)
    Marvin Hart
    Tommy Burns
    Jack Johnson
    Jess Willard
    Jack Dempsey
     
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  10. Illmatic

    Illmatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :good You know your **** sir...
     
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  11. Jose FM

    Jose FM Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I agree, Wlad is already the #1 recognized champion, so after this unification there would be no question whos the real champ.
     
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  12. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    I know Sullivan to Spinks off by heart, its one of my (admittedly sad) party pieces....it all gets a bit messy after Spinks though...
     
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  13. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    Here's the order you're missing before Dempsey:

    1. John L. Sullivan
    2. Jim Corbett
    3. Bob Fitzsimmons
    4. Jim Jeffries
    5. Marvin Hart
    6. Tommy Burns
    7. Jack Johnson
    8. Jess Willard
     
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  14. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    This is right
     
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  15. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Did Foreman retire shortly after beating Axel Schulz and then make a comeback in 1996? I'm sure he did, because if he did then the lineage from that point shouldnt be:

    Foreman, Briggs, Lewis , Rahman , Lewis, V.Klitschko

    it should be :

    Foreman , Holyfield (after Foreman relinquished his alphabet titles , Foreman beat the highest contenders around at that time) , Lewis , Rahman , Lewis and so on.

    Someone give an insight please
     
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