The changing landscape: Top 10 Heavyweights by Decade

Quite amazing that Rummy thinks that Holmes beats down W Klitschko, V Klitschko, Fury, and Joshua.

 

None of them do anything , skill or style wise that Holmes has not seen.

But all of these guys would be confused and surprised at holmes jab, the speed , skills and movement.

Holmes was a well-trained athlete without fat , iron chin , unstoppable will ,
long reach (same as W. Klitschko) and not significantly smaller.

Fury would be difficult but i still see holmes as a Winner.

 

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All of those guys would clobber Holmes, they all do things that Holmes hasn't seen, they're all bigger, heavier and more skilled than any contender Holmes fought, and by a mile in each area, Holmes got beat at his best by a guy moving up from light heavyweight, acting as if he could beat guys like the Klitschkos and Joshua/Fury is asinine, there hasn't been a LHW champion in world history who could move up and last the distance, much less beat the Klitschkos or Joshua/Fury. You think in Wladimir's decade long reign he didn't fight a little guy with a good jab? Nostalgia goggles

 

The official "top 10" is also out of step with the actual ability of the fighters, too heavily weighted on historical pro record and boxing politics. The real top 10 contains Fury, AJ, Usyk, Joyce, Hrgovic, Yoka, probably Wallin and Makhmudov. In my estimation, the top 8 heavyweights in 2021 (aside from 6'3, 217 lbs Usyk: the same dimensions as "big George" in Foreman vs Frazier) are all 6'5.5+, 240+ lbs and 6'7, 250 lbs Jalolov will be joining their ranks in a couple of years. The heavyweight division is thus the tallest and heaviest it's ever been at the elite level by a considerable margin.

 

It has always been like that. Top 10's are usually about greatness, meaning achievements, what each boxer does in his own era.
It isn't about who's better H2H, it's clear that modern HWs are better and would win in most cases, but it's not exactly a fair comparison.

 

How on Earth is Tyson not even second in the 80s ?!
How's Holyfield ahead of Lewis in the 90s ?!
Those things are just wrong.

 

Clobber Larry Holmes ? Didn't Fury go life and death with Steve Cunningham ? A guy who was featherfisted and the same size as Holmes ? Cunningham would do well to win 1 round against prime Holmes LOL. Fury was not in his prime but neither was Holmes when he lost to Michael Spinks, and he got robbed in the rematch anyway. Usyk who is close to the size of Holmes made Klitschko look foolish in sparring and handled Chisora far easier than Parker or Whyte did. Klitschko would give Holmes issues but he is not David Haye. His jab is quicker, better and longer, he had quicker hands, better mobility and better ring iq. Holy hell their ring iq is levels apart. And lets not get started on Aj, he struggled to outbox a 39 year old Povetkin and got slapped around by Ruiz, he also got schooled by 6'4 Erislandy Savon in the Olympics and he has yet to fight somebody with that mobility in the pros, although he's scheduled to fight Usyk. Usyk however might show up bloated and muscular, possibly loosing his speed advantage, and could get blasted out for it. You also going to forget when Holmes schooled Ray Mercer ? The same Ray Mercer that gave 6'5, 245lb Lewis hell ?

I am no blind nostalgic old head but im not clueless either. Only an idiot would say that Holmes easily beats SHWs like Klitschko or Lewis or Fury or Vitali but only an idiot would also say he doesn't have the skills to pull of a win. I know you're going to bring up 6'6 Gerry Cooney but Cooney was a slugger who tried to heavily press the issue and threw quick combinations unlike prime Wladimir or Fury. Regardless Holmes controlled that fight from in range and out and was comfortably ahead on my scoring and any rational persons scoring before the stoppage.

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