Ranking the Heavyweights: Sullivan to Tunney

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  1. mcvey

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    He stopped Sharkey and Ruhlin within two weeks of each other!
     
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  2. mcvey

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    Thanks for pointing that out!lol
     
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  3. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Incorrect as Joe was on the floor twice in the final round-and also twice in the preceding round- and only the police stopping it saved him. However he had Fitz down heavily in the third.
     
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  4. Manos de mierda

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    Would you consider Carl Morris and Arthur Pelkey on the same level as Gunboat?
     
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  5. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Well spotted. Any suggestion on where to rank them?

    Do you think Battling Jim Johnson deserves inclusion?
     
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  6. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If I can grab the time, I'll do my list!
     
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  7. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'd have them down a notch, the forgotten Jim Coffey I would rate above them too.
     
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  8. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    I look forward to it.

    I'll stick them in, but they're not ones I'm massively familar with, (Honestly I'm not sure I've even heard of Coffery) so a good chance I'll revise their placing.
     
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  9. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Thanku as I never read this version. Van you provide a source for me?
     
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  10. mattdonnellon

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    The Boston Globe, 19 June 1894
     
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  11. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Thanku
     
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  12. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    Maybe. His record is spotty, but he does get the better of Sam McVey on the few rounds that are filmed.

    If Jack Johnson vs Battling Jim Johnson, which I think was filmed ever surfaces, we'll know the answer to that question.
     
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  13. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    A lot of his losses were against good opposition too, and rarely stopped, and a couple very good wins over Wills and Clark.
     
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  14. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My quick list;
    johnson
    dempsey
    jeffries
    fitz
    tunney
    langford
    corbett
    jackson
    wills
    jeannette
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    willard
    maher
    sharkey
    sullivan
    mcvey
    burns
    hart
    goddard
    slavin
    mccoy
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    choynski
    mccarty
    greb
    gibbons
    norfolk
    gunboat smith
    martin
    ruhlin
    kilrain
    clarke
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    o'brien
    gardiner
    root
    godfrey
    ed smith
    dillon
    moran
    hall
    childs
    armstrong
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    fulton
    mcauliffe
    griffin
    ferguson
    mitchell
    burke
    kaufman
    kennedy
    killen
    miske
     
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