My top 10 Heavyweights

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  1. Sweet Science

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  4. Sweet Science

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    The reason I rate Ali's chances so highly is that, regardless of his susceptability to being caught with the left hook. In my opinion he had the best chin of any heavyweight ever. Futhermore, his ability to recouperate was astonishing. Even if Tyson caught him and hurt him, he'd have the best chance of recovering and would get up off the canvess to win if necessary. Ali's heart and never say die attitude would have the effect of garlic to a vampire on Tyson.
     
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    Did you say Ali is overrated? or were you referring to Tyson?
     
    Sweet Science, Jun 22, 2007
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    Hey, seems like you found your way in creating thread. Good thing.

    Excuse the critics by the others, I asked you because I was curious to see your top ten (not necessarly heavyweight, could have been P4P).
    Very good list by the way, a true contemporain list of the last 40 years.
     
    jyuza, Jun 22, 2007
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    Foreman in the top-5 strikes me as being "wacky". He was a mighty slugger, to be sure, but he was crude with questionable stamina. I couldn't imagine him beat, say, Sonny Liston, for example.
     
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    1. Joe Louis
    2. Muhammad Ali
    3. George Foreman
    4. Rocky Marciano
    5. Jack Johnson
    6. Joe Frazier
    7. Larry Holmes
    8. Sonny Liston
    9. Lennox Lewis
    10. Jack Dempsey
    11. Jersey Joe Walcott
    12. Evander Holyfield
    13. Jim Jeffries
    14. Sam Langford
    15. Mike Tyson
     
    Minotauro, Jun 22, 2007
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  9. jyuza

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    Ali would have kicked your ass for calling him Clay.
     
    jyuza, Jun 22, 2007
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    Thanks mate, appreciate it.

    My P4P list would have caused even more controversy, and seeing as though I'm new here don't want everyone to think I'm crazy!!!
     
    Sweet Science, Jun 22, 2007
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    Whats your reasoning for having Holmes that low, and having guys like Frazier and Liston ahead of him?

    Here's my list:

    1. Joe Louis
    2. Muhammad Ali
    3. Rocky Marciano
    4. Larry Holmes
    5. Jack Dempsey
    6. Jack Johnson
    7. George Foreman
    8. Sonny Liston
    9. Joe Frazier
    10. Ezzard Charles.
     
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    Don't worry we have seen much more worse list than that !
     
    jyuza, Jun 22, 2007
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    1. Muhammad Ali
    2. Sonny Liston
    3. George Foreman
    4. Mike Tyson
    5. Joe Louis
    6. Larry Holmes
    7. Joe Frazier
    8. Jack Johnson
    9. Jack Dempsey
    10. Lennox Lewis
    11. Evander Holyfield
    12. Rocky Marciano
    13. Riddick Bowe
    14. Floyd Patterson
    15. Ezzard Charles
    16. Jersey Joe Walcott
    17. Gene Tunney
    18. Jim Jeffries
    19. Ken Norton
    20. Sam Langford

    :good
     
    C. M. Clay II, Jun 22, 2007
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    Mainly that they fought better oposition and were more dominant against them.

    Having said that I mave placed Holmes in verry select company here.
     
    janitor, Jun 22, 2007
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    1 Louis
    2 Ali
    3 Johnson
    4 Marciano
    5 Dempsey
    6 Holmes
    7 Jeff
    8 Lewis
    9 Fraizer
    10 Sullivan
     
    Dempsey1238, Jun 22, 2007
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