Rank the following 8 fighters.

You don't mean that.

 

There's no way anybody could honestly look at film and decide that Carlos Zarate was a more formidable an opponent than Mike Tyson. What's your point?

 

I believe it to be true. Maybe the rest of us don't have the all-seeing eye that you appear to have, but Tyson certainly looked more formidable at his best than Carlos Zarate did. I don't believe fighters should be ranked based on how efficiently they dealt with their opposition anyhow, the quality of those opponents should hold more weight.

 

A ridiculous argument.

Yeah, if you don't think Boxing fans could watch a prime Mike Tyson and not think of him as being a better fighter than Zarate than I don't know what to say to you. I'm not necessarily saying this is how I feel, but I would envision a very close looking poll if you posed this to the Classic forum. I'd expect a shutout for Mike Tyson if you presented the argument to the General.

Could you arrange the eight fighters I've listed here in order from best to worst, and then slip in Zarate where you think he'd be.

 

I was going to make the thread: Mike Tyson vs Carlos Zarate (The Heavyweight version)

 

...I always thought this was the most important thing when evaluating greatness.