The best Heavyweights never to win a Heavyweight world title?

Sam Langford probably the best.

 

Jimmy Young was better than Quarry in my opinion. Ibeabuchi, Tua, Mercer (WBO champ), Morrison (WBO champ), Machen, Folley, Langford, Wills, Jeanette, McVea, just to name a few.

 

It was a 12 rounder and I scored it 7 rounds to 5 for Byrd, 115-113

 

Napolean?:huh " Able was I ere I saw Elba".:good

Anyone who makes the following statement with a straight face has no business here,

"Yes as well Peter Jackson, Joey Choiynski, Jimmy Young, Tyrell Biggs, Zejlko Mavrovic, Joe Mesi, Young Stribling, Andrew Golota, Georges Carpentier and Juan Carlos Gomez (maybe even Horace Notice). "

 

Of the three supercontenders “Jackson, Langford and Wills”, I submit that Jackson was the most likely to win the title.

The instant that John L Sullivan’s arm shattered in the Patsy Cardiff fight, Peter Jackson became the best heavyweight in the world, and remained so until age and alcohol dissipated him.

 

Really? The guy who went life and death with Goddard and a 168 pound Corbett, who he outweighed by almost 40 pounds, was the best in the world?

Even in Pollack's Sullivan book, he cites reports of Jackson's California fights stating he was not yet in the class of Sullivan.

 

Who would you suggest then?

 

Let me know when you get this translated:good

 

WTF?:huh

 

I'm going to make this list based on how good they were in their actual era. Some guys who first come to my mind are-

Harry Wills
Sam Langford
Joe Jeanette
Sam McVey
Jimmy Bivins
Doug Jones
Zora Folley
Eddie Machen
Jimmy Young
David Tua
Ike Ibeabuchi
Joe Mesi
Mike Hunter
Wimpy Halstead... Ok ok I'm kidding on the last couple


WBO Champs-
Mercer, Morrison, Akinwande, Hide (I know Hide is a stretch)

 

Jerry Quarry, Cleveland Williams, Sam Langford, Harry Wills, Sam McVey, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, David Tua

 

Tua is a great shout.

 

Bugner
Joe baski
Ike ibeabuci
Jimmy young

 

Odlanier Solis if you consider ams is up there. He'd also be pretty formidable if you took him from somewhere around the Julius Long fight.

 

I genuinely thought Solis was gonna be the best HW for about a decade.

The man who beat Haye in the ams was an incredible talent.