Rating the light heavyweights

Ezzard Charles
Archie Moore
Michael Spinks
Bob Foster
Billy Conn
Jimmy Bivins
Tommy Loughran
Jack Dillon
Roy Jones Jr
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien


Langford I rate at SuperMiddle he was 168 or less for most of his best years and many of his best wins
Tunney I rate at heavy where he left his legacy
And Harry I rate at Middle for the same reason
I honestly have not figured out where to put Bob Fitzsimmons...

 

he should be a lock!

 

mine would go:

01 Charles
02 Tunney
03 Langford
04 Greb
05 Moore
06 Spinks
07 Loughran
08 Conn
09 Fitzsimmons
10 Foster

but it changes everytime I do it...

ESB classic did a consensus 3+ years ago...here are the results and a link to that discussion.

1. 971 Ezzard Charles (30)
2. 652 Archie Moore (4)
3. 557 Gene Tunney (8 )
4. 452 Sam Langford (4)
5. 328 Michael Spinks (1)
6. 288 Bob Foster
7. 181 Harry Greb
8. 148 Billy Conn
9. 140 Tommy Loughran
10. 81 Bob Fitzsimmons
11. 79 Roy Jones Jr
12. 50 Harold Johnson
13. 15 Jimmy Slattery
14. 10 Saad Muhammad
15. 7 Victor Galindez
16. 6 Jack Dillon
17. 5 Jack O'Brian
17. 5 John Henry Lewis
19. 4 Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
19. 4 Dwight Qawi
21. 3 Jimmy Bivins
21. 3 Tommy Gibbons
21. 3 Maxie Rosenbloom
24. 1 Donny Lalonde
24. 1 George Carpentier
24. 1 Henry Maske


http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=156260&page=12

 

Probably because like Greb there's no footage of Maxie. Huge record but nobody has seen him fight. Also, the one glaring flaw on his resume is his 6% KO record. That's way worse than Pastrano or even Locche. No featherfists in the top ten, please. This ain't tag.

 

Mine looks like

1) Charles
2) Tunney
3) Moore
4) Langford
5) Spinks
6) Foster

After this it gets a bit too complicated/not knowing enough resume wise.