Most fun heavyweight ever???

Cliche, but... Tyson.
And if he fought better opposition more regularly, Wilder would be great fun to watch.
I enjoy Dempsey, too. And prime Holyfield is a given.

 

It has to be Holyfield, done it? Look at this:

Dwight Muhammad Qawi I
Pinklon Thomas
Michael Dokes
Alex Stewart I
George Foreman
Bert Cooper
Larry Holmes
Riddick Bowe I
Riddick Bowe II
Ray Mercer
Riddick Bowe III
Mike Tyson I
Michael Moorer II
Lennox Lewis II
Hasim Rahman

And those are the ones I've seen, I'm sure there's other fun fights. Frazier, Patterson and Marciano are up there, but for me, it's always Holyfield. I think a better question is: "who is the most fun non-ATG HW?". Guys like Arreola, Golota, Brewster, Chuvalo, Bonavena, Quarry &c; could all make the list. I think it'd be pretty sick to see people list off their best fights and give me some new watching material.

 

Ruiz I also wasn't a bad fight BTW. For Ruiz standards it was a super exciting. Would you like to re-watch it and score to see if @Mendoza is right when he says Ruiz was robbed by the judges? I scored this fight 2 or 3 years ago and for me it was very, very close and depended on how you score the third round - 10-9 or 10-8 for Holyfield. If it's 10-9 round then IMO fight should have been called a draw. If it's 10-8 round then Holyfield won 114-113

 

To be honest. I'm happy to avoid all things to do with Ruiz and let Mendoza argue with himself

 

For sheer excitement, I think Bob Satterfield warrants a mention. He went all out with his punches, could KO anyone, was explosive, but also had a weak jaw and so could get stretched himself at any moment.

As an added bonus, he had pretty good technical boxing skills when he used them.

Plenty of his fights on you tube.

 

Dillian Whyte belongs in that category. Kill or be killed.

 

I am a huge Frazier fan, but I would agree I don’t know if any HW was in more exciting fights than Holyfield.

I might go Quarry with a non ATG candidate.

 

Tex Cobb outside the ring

Marciano, Dempsey or Tyson inside of it

 

Don’t even mention him, he’ll bring up the most bias scorecards for every Holyfield fight

 

Ray "Windmill" White...Fought from 1958 to 1974....Lt Heavy & Heavyweight..he had long arms...he used to throw his right hand from behind his back. Used to see him on TV in 1971-1972. He's still around. He's 82. He was "fun" to watch!

 

Love the obscure shout, thank you for that

 

Ali for sure.

He even had this awareness where if a fight was getting dull, he would liven it up.

 

Last of the great clown fighters. Nobody like him since. And he could fight, too. He was briefly rated as a Top Ten Light heavyweight.

 

No order
Ali
Marciano
Tyson
Foreman
Frazier
Baer
Holyfield