My Top 50 HWs?

Yeah and where is Corrie Sanders? The top 5 is solid.

Holyfield at #6? Charles at #11, Patterson at #12, Sharkey at #20 are are all picks I'd slide back. Moore at #29 is a big reach. Layne ( at #32 ) making the cut and Risko making the cut are bad picks.

 

Pretty much a fantastic top 12 imo. Fair chance i would share your top 5 with possibly the only difference being Lewis ahead of Holmes but it's tight. Holyfield for me wouldn't be quite as high as #6. the back 4 look very good.

Only big difference is i personally would not have Wlad in the 10. He'd be 10-15'ish. One of my bones of contention is that there's every chance he wasn't the worlds premier heavyweight for much of his career. Tho it wasn't their fault the incredible co-incidence of two brothers being the top guys in the world for some time hurts them both for mine. Ironically if they could have fought one of them would have received a huge boost and quite possibly both of them. It may have been a great rivalry under different circumstances and elevated the pair. A top rival is what they both lack particularly considering both of them were fluttering around for years. Unfortunate but it is what it is. I'm not sure if my line of thinking is orthodox but it's something i have felt for a long time.

 

You could also prob replace Sharkey with Johnny B. Lol nice list though George

 

I might agree, but then Fitzsimmons had still far better depth (Maher, Ruhlin, Choynski, Hall vs basically nobody).

Again, I think that Schmeling had better depth and overall top 5 than Bowe though.

 

Ambitious and good list, but Johnson's place sticks out. Seems way too low to me. Wills should probably be higher as well. And no Tunney or Greb?

 

Hang on, you've got a typo - you've misspelled Ezzard Charles as 'Muhammad Ali'.

 

This post should provide you with the validation of the quality of your list, @George Crowcroft!

 

I agree this is causal. There are a few who don't belong. V. Klitschko still isn't respected by all, but IMO he's passed Norton, Byrd and Fitzsimmons.

 

Yeah, Johnson deserves a higher ranking mainly because of his pre-title comp. @Boilermaker @mcvey and @janitor are good at putting this run in perspective.

Tunney has some good wins outside his two over Dempsey, I believe. Johnny Risko among them (was he on your list?) and Greb was one of the top HW contenders for a while, I think. Wills definitely was for quite some time.

 

I could have posted this but it's still a very good list. I have Tubbs and Jackson in there too. Vitali higher but like your rank of Spoon and Wlad.

 

Not bad. Pretty close to mine insofar as the top 10 are concerned. My problem is usually H2H vs resume when ranking.