Rank all HW Linear Champions in terms of durability

I'll do no such thing.

 

That’s a lot to take in...by durability are we talking chin, longevity, or stamina or all of the above?

 

The most durable lineal / Ring magazine champions

Jeffries, Ali, McCall, V Klitschko.

The worst. I'll pass

 

Gonna have to agree with the comments above, bit too wide of a selection and not specific enough. Longevity? Chin? Heart?

I'd say Ali is somewhere at the top no matter the quality being asked

 

McCall and Vitali were never Lineal champs

 

Vitali can be included for starting a "new lineage" according to some when he beat Sanders, since Lewis was gone and they were near the top of the division.

McCall wasn't.

 

Well, I’d say most durable would be Jeffries, Marciano, Ali all could be number 1,

 

McCall was never lineal champion, nor was he Ring magazine champion.

 

Jeffries
Ali

 

So you think Jeffries is the best and Ali the worst?

 

No,I think they are the two most durable of the champions.

 

I think it is more difficult to assess than I first thought. With great fighters, they all get a kind of pass on durability for much of their careers because they are so good most of their fights are not that competitive. Being a great fighter means you don’t get hit much. The comparison is therefore between fighters who did not get hit much rather than between freaks with incredibly strong constitutions that always took as much as they dished out their entire careers.

Then among the Greater fighters there are still champions that went over but got up and won. So do we say they shouldn’t go down in the first place or should we celebrate that they took it, got up, and still won?

I think the longest reigning champions must represent the most durable champions. Overall, longevity against the higher number of competitive fights is key. So therefore it has to be guys like Larry Holmes and Muhammad Ali.

On their best nights only, most of them took a really good shot.

 

Give a top ten
Ali
Jeffries
Marciano
Foreman
Bowe
Frazier
Holyfield
Louis
Baer
Holmes