The top 10 modern heavyweights of all time

The weight he boxed at was 197 pounds against Nino Valdes (6'3, 210+ lb top ranked HW), 207 lbs vs Hans Kalbfell (210+ lb HW), 197 lbs vs Alejandro Lavorante (210+ lb HW).

Know what weight Chris Byrd fought at when he was 20 years of age? 140 pounds. That's Wladimir Klitschko's career best win.

Ruiz the bum was a top 5 ranked heavyweight.

Washed up Holyfield was robbed of a title win last year at 46 years of age.

 

The top 5 Heavyweight fighters in history are obvious in my opinion, and the list is ......

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Johnson
4. Holmes
5. Dempsey


How can anybody argue about this top 5 .. This is the Top 5, there can be no Tyson and Lewis, these 2 were nothing compared to the top 5 .. Marciano was great but i have him at 6 .... Its Ali, Louis, Johnson, Holmes and Dempsey, argument over !! This 'THE' top 5 !!

 

So the complexion of a boxer you are ducking is more important than their ability and ranking? Ok, whatever, it's your "take a dump on Louis" thread. Hope you're enjoying it.

 

Because Marciano and Liston fought at the same time...

I think you are a little naive with your definition of modern. For starters a modern heavyweight is anyone over 200lbs, not 205. And like Roy Jones showed, even in the modern era a former professional 154lber could compete with the 240lbs+ monsters of today.

I would personally say modern is as far as Heavyweights go, is post Willard/Johnson that fight being the last 45 rounder.

As for your so and so avoided so and so because, because he was pink with green spots:

Sorry to break this to you, boxers, even today! Avoid fighting another, for any amount of reasons, that is an illness of your modern boxing, not just of the past.

 

hmm after hard thinking i came up with this list :
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Larry Holmes
3. Sonny Liston
4. George Foreman
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Joe Frazier
7. mike Tyson
8. Ken Norton
9. Evander Holyfield

well i can't make it up to 10 i think all the others are to close to eachother to pick one out.

 

Actually Dempsey doesn't even belong in the top 10 let alone top 5.

His quality of opposition, his title reign and his pre-title blemishes leave him in any best case scenario on the very bottom on the top 10.

I personally have him in at number 12.

 

There is no weight class recogniused by any sanctioning body of 205 lbs +

It is just a arbitrary number that you have come up with to seperate one group of fighters from another.

Louis weighed in over 205 lbs late in his career. Did he become a modern heavyweight as he grew older?

 

It's funny how Warren always denigrates Louis for struggling with Conn yet praises Foreman for his showing against Gregorio Peralta.

Peralta was not even a light heavyweight champion unlike Conn, he was simply a contender who gave plenty of trouble to Foreman.