Ranking the Heavyweights

Fair point. Cameron & Sprott >> anyone Briggs fought in 2014. (most of them rather on the same level as Ritani-Coe & Sam)

 

Yep. How do you see Meehan/Briggs going now? :think

Would have been interesting in the mid 2000s as well. I'd favor Meehan though, if he could avoid the initial Briggs blitz, or avoid a Liakhovich like collapse - I think he'd outbox Shannon without many problems.

 

What's crazy is Meehan was in pretty terrible shape for the 200k tournament and still won. However he appeared in a lot better shape last weekend vs. Cameron. I'd have to think it would go Meehan's way if he was in decent shape and could last a round or two with Briggs.

I'm glad I'm the only one that doesn't like to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about fringe heavyweight contenders. It's a sickness, I know.

 

True.. Well he got by on the fact that he was in with a bunch of club fighters, and Sprott who probably would have outlasted him if he didn't get him out of there...

I know man, somethings not right with us

 

:good

Three stoppage losses notwithstanding, Meehan was a pretty tough customer...and definitely always had the better gas tank and more skill than Pineapple-head.

 

Agreed.. How did you score the Brewster fight btw?

 

Klitschko
Stiverne
Haye
Povetkin
Joshua
Fury
Glazkov
Wilder
Pulev
Jennings
Ustinov
Chisora
Ruiz Jr.
Arreola
Price
Takam
Perez
Browne
Solis
Chambers
Thompson
Wach
Charr
Chagaev
Scott
Spilka
Adamek
Hammer
Cunningham
Mansour

And yes, right now I hink Joshua could beat everyone not 1-4

 

:nod

It always induces a bit of cringing when that happens, just pure embarrassment for the rest of the field, when a competitor who is clearly at 50% or less of their 'best' comes in and sweeps a tourney like that.

Case in point: Audley Harrison coming back from retirement twice and winning HW Prizefighter in 2009 and 2013 (both times coming off losses; eleven months after the Rogan upset in '09, and following the Price blitz in '13) or Sprott winning the "international" version of it later the same year...or Bogdan Dinu completely bossing it at Bigger's Better despite looking horrible, as if he were spending six days a week on the couch playing video games and munching potato chips. In the case of the former two, embarrassing to be a loser in a tourney won by them because of them being old & banged up; in Dinu's case because he really didn't seem be to be remotely passionate about or taking boxing seriously - evident both in his body language and the way he fought and the fact that he was clearly not in the best of shape and had put no effort into a camp for BB. (not to mention, not bothering to set foot in the ring for any sanctioned pro bouts for a very long time)

Then again, sometimes you have the opposite, where someone overachieves in tourneys like that. 10-6 (3) Fabrice Aurieng springs to mind - not a very good pro (though he did beat a few vaguely recognizable if not exactly respected names in Tony, Zumbano Love, and Olubamiwo) and he walked it at BB, twice, making it look easy. (and looking better than Dinu in his)

 

Prizefighter is no Thunderbox!

Actually it is, but Thunderbox is nostalgic for me. I remember Tim Witherspoon KO'ing "The young and upcoming prospect" David Bostice on one of the fights on one of these shows that wasn't a part of the tournament. I recorded this on VHS - which I did for any boxing match that was on TV at this time - and I wore it out watching the KO over and over. Tim Witherspoon may be responsible for me becoming a heavyweight boxing fan in the first place because of this fight.

Funny to think about that.

 

THUNDERBOX!

Hey, they brought "Boxcino" back... :think

 

Here my Top 20:

1. Klitschko
2. Povetkin
3. Fury
4. Pulev
5. Stiverne
6. Perez
7. Ruiz Jr
8. Thompson
9. Solis
10. Jennings
11. Chisora
12. Glazkov
13. Chagaev
14. Takam
15. Szpilka
16. Arreola
17. Adamek
18. Wilder
19. Browne
20. Joshua

 

How've you got Jennings over Perez when Jennings just beat him.

 

It was a robbery. Perez outboxed Jennings and won first 6 rounds clearly. I scored it 7-5 to Perez and the referee made mistake when took a point away on Perez. It should have been Perez by UD or atleast a draw.

 

The Cuban slob gassed out and lost the fight even without the point deduction. Deal with it :good

 

Perez vs. Takam and Perez vs. Jennings were both very close and both could've gone either way.

I scored both draws, but Jennings 114-113 over Perez including the point deduction.

I agree with Boxed Ears' assessment that both fights proved all three of them are pretty much on the same level (meaning all would probably lose to #1 heavyweight Klitschko, probably give a tough argument but ultimately succumb to #3 Povetkin, and probably beat all the rest including each other at least once apiece if they fought trilogies)