Name the best fighters missing from ATG heavyweights resumes?

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  1. HolyG.O.A.T

    HolyG.O.A.T New Member Full Member

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    Starting with my hero holyfield. I think he has the greatest resume of all time but there's still a few names missing.

    Missing from holyfields resume from the top of my head
    Tommy Morrison
    Frank Bruno
    Oliver McCall
    Razor ruddock
    Andrew golota

    Holmes has loads missing so does bowe so does Frazier.

    Get naming some more. I know that Ali hardly has any missing. Maybe Eddie machen in the 60s? Maybe clutching at straws in little
     
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  2. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis - A lot of the guys Holyfield fought.
    Evander Holyfield - A lot of the guys Lewis fought.

    It was a pretty stacked era.

    Foreman has a fairly thin resume in the 70s - don't think it was better than Fraziers.

    Joe Louis should have fought Elmer Ray.

    Jack Dempsey and Jack Johnson missed out on quite a few key challengers.

    Holmes as you mention missed out on some fighters as well, but like the 90s, it was a pretty stacked era and with the belts switching hands once per week it wasn't really possible for him to fight all of the "top contenders".
     
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  3. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Foreman - Quarry, Bonavena
    Patterson - Folley, Williams, Valdez
    Marciano - Valdez, Baker
    Louis - Ray, Bivins (for the title), Franklin
    Tunney - Sharkey
    Dempsey - Wills, Godfrey

    To name a few.
     
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  4. andrewa1

    andrewa1 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Vitali: Names: Holyfield, Tyson. Contenders: Valuev, Haye, Rahman. (Though he tried to fight many of them). Wlad: Many of the same.
    LL: Bowe, Foreman
    And really, pretty much all the other atgs had few truly noteworthy gaps in their resume from not facing a top person until you get back to Floyd Patterson. Unfortunately it will probably continue to be a problem for future hw's though, due to changes in the sport.
     
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  5. HolyG.O.A.T

    HolyG.O.A.T New Member Full Member

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    Joe Frazier didn't fight

    60s
    Liston
    Terrell
    Patterson
    Folley

    70s
    Norton
    Lyle
    Young
    Shavers

    Some really big fighters there he missed. By the way in know way am I saying he ducked any of these guys.
     
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  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Which key fighters did Johnson not fight?
     
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  7. itsa

    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    tyson on foremans resume.
     
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  8. HolyG.O.A.T

    HolyG.O.A.T New Member Full Member

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    Who ducked who? Tyson or foreman?
     
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