Prime Heavyweight Champion who would be LEAST effective in a street fight?

Well, shooting comes under the category "street fight". That's the real world.

And, yeah, it's pointless.

 

Based on what I have seen of boxer on civilian encounters a 200lb+ man with no profesional background in combat sports would not have a cat in hells chance against Tommy Burns or any other world class fighter.

 

This.

 

I wouldn't give any guy much of a chance against Burns, but we're talking relative to other HW champions.

 

Not against the average joe he wasn't, but against other heavyweight champions in their prime, I don't think he fares too well.

 

Ezzard Charles probably.

 

Perhaps not a bad call.

It is fairly reliably documented that Young Griffo knocked Corbett out in a bar fight.

 

Carnera.

 

When boxers get in fights outside of the ring they usually just grab the guy and fall to the floor... or drop kick them, of course.

 

Foreman was a street fighter from the Houston 5th ward.

Sonny Liston was a Mob enforcer that took on multiple cops.....and threw one head first into trash can.

Don't know too much about Bowe.

 

Tommy Burns.

 

Jeffries

Dempsey

Marciano

Liston

Frazier

Tyson

 

you did read the part that said LEAST effective, right?

For me it's got to be Chris Byrd.

 

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