Rank the top 5 British heavyweights in history

llol. i tihnk you got me there, he was 41.

my bad sorry.

still the statement stands, for bruno.

 

Lewis (obviously)
Bugner (defeated Jimmy Ellis, Mac Foster, James Tillis, Greg Page, good showings vs Ali and Frazier)
Haye (making Valuev do the chicken dance puts him on the list)
Cooper (anyone who defeats Jefferson Davis gets props from me)
Bruno

Fury and Joshua both have a good chance of replacing Haye and Cooper if they progress in their careers.
Can't include anyone named the Toneypandy Terror.

 

yuh it shows he takes it better from 40somethings than David Haye does.

 

Excluding LPR fighters:

1. Lennox Lewis
2. Bob Fitzsimmons
3. Anthony Joshua
4. Tyson Fury
5. Tommy Farr

Obviously Joshua and Fury can increase their standing yet.

 

Top British heavyweight lists had been very stable for a long time until recently.

Bob Fitzsimmons held the #1 slot throughout the 20th century, because he was the only one who had held the undisputed title.

Lewis surpassed him by virtue of dominating an era, and the rest were just contenders to be shuffled as you saw fit.

Since 2015 we have had two British heavyweights who were clearly the top heavyweight on the planet, which is as many as we had in the previous hundred years!

Even somebody like Dillian Whyte would have been a significant addition to the list, had he come along a decade or so earlier!

 

frank would flatten both prime and old wlad.

 

I still think Chisora should be ranked ahead of Whyte. Whyte might do more, but Chisora has done more.

Haye should probably be ahead of either.

 

brown sauce didnt get killed by middlers serially.

 

I don't think you should take his list too seriously.lol

 

So he was winning when he wasn't on the canvas?

 

All could have been more significant, had they come along a decade or two earlier.

 

1. Lewis 2. Bruno 3. Joshua