Rate your top 5 current heavyweights by

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  1. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    How many KO losses does he have ?
     
  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Speed - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Skills - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Stamina - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Power - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Chin - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Heart - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
    Ring IQ - Usyk & Joe 'JJJ' Joyce & Tyson Fury
     
  3. The Long Count

    The Long Count Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Speed
    1. Fury
    After that I don’t know.

    Skills
    1. Fury
    2. Joshua
    3. Povetkin
    4. Pulev
    5. Ortiz

    Stamina
    1. Fury
    2. Whyte
    3. Wilder
    4. Parker
    5. Joshua

    Power
    1. Joshua
    2. Wilder
    3. Povetkin
    4. Whyte
    5. Ortiz

    Chin
    1. Povetkin
    2. Ortiz
    3. Fury
    4. Joshua
    5. Pulev

    Heart
    1. Wilder
    1. Fury
    1.Povetkin
    1.Joshua
    1.Ortiz
    (This is toss up every guy here has shown heart)
    Wilder shows heart in every fight even being outboxed by fury he was still trying and he hung tough when he was hurt by guys like Molina and Ortiz.
    Fury - got up in twelfth round on Tired legs from good shot by Wilder and Fury also believes in himself 110 percent.
    Povetkin is older but has shown tremendous heart and will to win throughout career
    Joshua survived rocky moments in Wlad fight and Whyte fight
    Ortiz is old but still game

    Ring IQ
    1. Fury
    2. Pulev
    3. Povetkin
    4. Joshua
    5. Miller

    * wilder has some of the worst in the ring IQ I have ever seen but I do give him credit for coming in light to fights and maintaining his stamina so that counts for something.
     
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  4. PaddyGarcia

    PaddyGarcia Trivial Annoyance Gold Medalist Full Member

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    Speed (I think Yoka may end up here)
    1) Fury
    2) Ruiz Jr
    3) Gorman
    4) Parker
    5) Povetkin
    Skills
    1) Fury
    2) Povetkin
    3) Ortiz
    4) AJ
    5) Pulev (potentially Hrgovic)
    Stamina
    1) Fury
    2) Parker
    3) Whyte (I think this is where he has improved most)
    4) AJ
    5) Wilder
    Power
    1) Wilder
    2) AJ
    3) Ortiz
    4) Whyte
    5) Dubois (as raw as he seems, his power appears to be legit)
    Chin (this is tough to measure given the disparity in size between these guys)
    1) Wach
    2) Breazeale
    3) Parker
    4) Wilder
    5) AJ
    Heart

    Found this impossible to rate. AJ, Wilder, Fury, Pov, Whyte and even Ortiz have all shown to have great heart.

    Ring IQ
    1) Fury
    2) Povetkin
    3) Ortiz
    4) AJ
    5) Pulev
     
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  5. BCS8

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    Wach's chin is unreal. Dude has eaten punches like an arcade machine eats coins.
     
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  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Don`t think Joyce is quite up there with these two apart from power. ;):duh
     
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  7. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My list:

    Speed
    1) Hughie Fury
    2) Parker
    3) Tyson Fury
    4) Hunter
    5) Wilder

    Skills
    1) Fury
    2-3) Povetkin and Ortiz
    4) AJ
    5) Hunter

    Stamina
    1) Fury
    2) Parker
    3) Wilder
    4) Breazeale
    5) Hunter

    Power
    1) Wilder
    2) AJ
    3) Whyte
    4) Ortiz
    5) Povetkin

    Chin
    1) Wach
    2) Parker
    3) AJ
    4) Kevin Johnson
    5) Miller

    Heart
    1) Tyson Fury
    2-5) AJ, Whyte, Wilder, Povetkin

    Ring IQ:

    1) Tyson Fury
    2) Ortiz
    3) AJ
    4) Povetkin
    5) Hunter
     
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  8. BCS8

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    Good list.

    People are now underrating Povetkin after his first loss in years. The guy is still probably the #3 heavy right now.
     
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  9. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    He has insane stamina too and his skills are coming along nicely. Give him another 18 months and you'll see what a 260-270lb Loma would look like.
     
  10. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Fury's ring IQ is off the charts
     
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  11. It's Ovah

    It's Ovah I am very feel me good. Full Member

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    Taking just guys in the boxrec top fifteen, here's how I see them:

    Speed: Parker, Fury, Wilder, Huck, Povetkin

    Skills: Fury, Ortiz, Povetkin, Joshua, Pulev

    Stamina: Miller, Kownacki, Fury, Parker, Wilder

    Power: Joshua, Wilder, Ortiz, Povetkin, Whyte

    Chin: Parker, Miller, Kownacki, Breazeale, Povetkin

    Heart: Fury, Joshua, Wilder, Breazeale, Whyte

    Ring IQ: Fury, Ortiz, Joshua, Pulev, Povetkin

    Quite a few unknowns there, to be honest.
     
  12. sid

    sid Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He got up each time & never lost.