Ten clearly best heavyweights in a decade.

The sport was still young and there weren't too many other standout guys. And the fact that Jeffries was able to make a name for himself with so few fights implied that competition must have been slim.

 

What about Choklab?

 

Tbf I'm just as bad haha my next boxer to study though is Ketchel so that will end some of my obsession with HW fighters lol

 

I had thought of the exact same decade and came up with 9 of your 10. The only difference was I had Bob Baker rather than Archie. Not that Archie was less deserving, I just forgot about him. It would be between Baker and Valdez of who stays and who goes, so let's just make it 11 for spits and giggles.

 

I thought it would be easy and then I started brain storming and I'm not sure what happened. Not to take digs, but Langford fighting Johnson might have cleared some of it up, but then you still have a guy like Ketchel as a very likely top 10 candidate, so yer it's difficult. Same problem in the 1910s. If Dempsey had met Wills and Langford we'd have a much clearer picture.

 

Johnson, Jeffries, Langford, Jeanette, Burns, Ketchel, O'Brien, Mcvea

If you went from 1902 maybe? That was just a approximation of were to place them. So many options for 9 and 10 though

 

That's why I fiddled with the dates, Wills, Willard would be exempt as they were yet to have there comeuppance, otherwise Wills slots right in there, I really shouldn't have missed Hart out, that was a genuine error. So that's a solid 9, however you'd have to go into far greater detail to justify why that 10th fighter is being significantly above the crowd that closely miss out, maybe even for 7, 8 and 9 too