Based on Head to head/All around accomplishments/historical signifigance/intangibles. Head to Head is always my most signifigant category. 1. Ezzard Charles 6'0 This content is protected 2. Archie Moore 5'11 This content is protected 3. Sam Langford This content is protected 4. Michael Spinks 6'3 This content is protected 5. Harold Johnson 5'10 This content is protected 6. Bob Foster 6'4 This content is protected 7. Billy Conn 6'2 This content is protected 8. John Henry Lewis 5'11 This content is protected 9. Gene Tunney 6'1 This content is protected 10. Mauro Mina 6'0 This content is protected 11. Harry Greb 12. Roy Jones 13. Tommy Loughran 14. Jimmy Bivins 15. Kid Norfolk 16. Dwight Muhammad Qawi 17. Bob Fitzimmons 18. Tommy Gibbons 19. Tiger Jack Fox 20. Mathew Saad Muhammad 21. Jack Delaney 22. Eddie Cotton 23. Maxie Rosenbloom 24. Paul Berlenbach 25. Jose Torres HM: Joey Maxim, Victor Galindez, John Conteh
Well Gene Tunney lost to A teenager version of Tommy Loughran according to my newspaper reports....... and Split the series at lightheavyweight with greb whos 10-12lb lighter. Tunney never faced the lightheavyweight punchers of his era Stribling, slattery, berlenbach, so he is untested their.....and tunney never took on black fighters. With that said, Tunney was a great fighter with great straight punching accuracy and fast feet, with natural boxing instincts...... and I dont think 9 is a poor rating at all.
From many accounts Tunney wasn't even the finished article at 175. The fight against Carpentier is the only fight where he's 175 that has been caught on film. Tunney did well but Carpentier was miles past his prime. Tunney's most impressive performances - last Greb fight (not on film), Tommy Gibbons(filmed), Dempsey fights (filmed), Tom Heeney (filmed) he was 183-192 pounds, not a light-heavyweight. These are terrific performances and were considered so by those who saw him. He looked stronger and more seasoned and simply better at the tail-end of his career, AFTER he'd outgrown the light-heavies. That's the impressive I get from reading a few reports and biographies.
Good list SuzieQ, dont think i could do a top 26 right now without a good bit of thought, i do know my own personal top 6 though ,top 6 because i believe these to be the very elite. I do go more on the achievements criteria than the h2h though, so we're bound to differ. 1. Ezzard Charles - he's a lock 2. Gene Tunney - your point about him is good, but i think he did very good in a tremendous era. 3. Mike Spinks 4. Archie Moore 5. Bob Foster - not the best era, but dominance at 175. 6. Tommy Loughran If i had to fill my top 10 - 7. Sam Langford 8. Roy Jones Jr. - i still give much credit to h2h 9. Victor Galindez 10. Harlod Johnson This aint set in stone though
