Top 10 Cruiserweights of all time?

1) Oleksandr Usyk
2) Evander Holyfield
3) Carlos de Leon
4) Mairis Briedis
5) Juan Carlos Gomez
6) Tomasz Adamek
7) Denis Lebedev
8) Steve Cunningham
9) Kryzstof Wlodarczyk
10) Marco Huck
11) David Haye
12) Johnny Nelson
13) Jean Marc Mormeck
14) Murat Gassiev
15) Yoan Pablo Hernandez
16) Jai Opetaia
17) Vassily Jirov
18) Dwight Qawi Muhammed
19) Yuniel Dorticos
20) Grigory Drozd

Really tried to make a top10 but It was painfully difficult. I gave up in the end and went with a top20 instead.

 

Oleksander Usyk 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10= 96***
Evander Holyfield- 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9= 85***
Mairis Briedis 5, 9, 7, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4, 7= 64
David Haye 6, 3, 6, 8, 2, 6, 8, 6, 7= 52
Carlos De Leon 8, 8, 7, 4, 8, 8, 8- 51
O'Neil Bell 3, 6, 3, 5, = 22
Marco Huck 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 1= 22
James Toney 6, 7, 6= 19
Dwight Muhammad Qawi 7, 5, 3, 3= 18
Tomasz Adamek 1, 5, 3, 3, 5= 17
Juan Carlos Gomez 4, 1, 6, 6= 17
Steve Cunningham 8, 1, 2, 2, 3= 16
Jean-Marc Mormeck 4, 1, 6, 4= 15
Vasili Jirov 2, 5, 1, 5= 13
Guillermo Jones 4, 5, 1= 11
Denis Lebedev 1, 2, 1, 4= 8
Alfred Cole 7= 7
Jai Opetaia 4, 3= 7
Firat Arslan 4= 4
Johnny Nelson 2= 2
Anaclet Wamba 2=2
Kryzstof Wlodarczyk 2= 2
Kristof Glowacki 1= 1
Murat Gassiev=1


***Note: one poster openly stated that he will only vote for cruisers 200 pounds or over, raising objections.

 

You seem to have voted for Lebedev for 7 and 10, so I gave Denis the 7 spot and Huck the 10.

At this point, I can't put the extra people in the weighted total, although maybe I can go back and re-do it later in a way to incorporate them.

Thanks for the Wlodarczyk mention. He deserved to be remembered as a runner-up.

 

1.Uysk
2.Holyfield
3. Breidis
4. Haye
5.De Leon
6. Gomez
7. Huck
8. Toney
9. Jirov
10. Momeck

I think our current champ has a very good chance of ending up on this list when all is said and done. I like Jai a lot. I hate not having Lebedev in the top ten but too me, Toney, Jirov and Momeck are more deserving.

 

Oleksander Usyk 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10= 115***
Evander Holyfield- 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9= 104***
Mairis Briedis 5, 9, 7, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4, 7, 6, 8= 78
David Haye 6, 3, 6, 8, 2, 6, 5, 8, 7, 7, 7= 65
Carlos De Leon 8, 8, 7, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6- 65
Marco Huck 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 1, 4= 26
O'Neil Bell 3, 6, 3, 5, = 22
James Toney 6, 7, 6, 3= 22
Juan Carlos Gomez 4, 1, 6, 6, 5= 22
Dwight Muhammad Qawi 7, 5, 3, 3= 18
Tomasz Adamek 1, 5, 3, 3, 5= 17
Steve Cunningham 8, 1, 2, 2, 3= 16
Jean-Marc Mormeck 4, 1, 6, 4, 1= 16
Vasili Jirov 2, 5, 1, 5, 2= 15
Guillermo Jones 4, 5, 1= 11
Denis Lebedev 1, 2, 1, 4= 8
Alfred Cole 7= 7
Jai Opetaia 4, 3= 7
Firat Arslan 4= 4
Johnny Nelson 2= 2
Anaclet Wamba 2=2
Kryzstof Wlodarczyk 2= 2
Kristof Glowacki 1= 1
Murat Gassiev=1

 

1. Usyk
2. Holyfield
3. Breidis
4. Haye
5.Gomez
6. Adamek
7. Mormeck
8. Jai
9. Al Cole
10. Toney

You’d have to pay me to sit down and reason everything out though.

 

Oleksander Usyk 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 10= 125***
Evander Holyfield- 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 9= 113***
Mairis Briedis 5, 9, 7, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4, 7, 6, 8, 7= 85
David Haye 6, 3, 6, 8, 2, 6, 5, 8, 7, 7, 7, 6= 71
Carlos De Leon 8, 8, 7, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6- 65
Juan Carlos Gomez 4, 1, 6, 6, 5, 6= 28
Marco Huck 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 1, 4= 26
James Toney 6, 7, 6, 3, 1= 23
O'Neil Bell 3, 6, 3, 5, = 22
Tomasz Adamek 1, 5, 3, 3, 5, 5= 22
Dwight Muhammad Qawi 7, 5, 3, 3= 18
Jean-Marc Mormeck 4, 1, 6, 4, 1, 4= 20
Steve Cunningham 8, 1, 2, 2, 3= 16
Vasili Jirov 2, 5, 1, 5, 2= 15
Guillermo Jones 4, 5, 1= 11
Jai Opetaia 4, 3, 3= 10
Denis Lebedev 1, 2, 1, 4= 8
Alfred Cole 7, 2= 9
Firat Arslan 4= 4
Johnny Nelson 2= 2
Anaclet Wamba 2=2
Kryzstof Wlodarczyk 2= 2
Kristof Glowacki 1= 1
Murat Gassiev=1

NOTES:
-Anatolian seems to have cited Lebedev twice. I added him at 7 and gave Huck 10.
- Added JohnThomas' top five
- I will do an extended format later for those of us with top 15-20
***Note: one poster openly stated that he will only vote for cruisers 200 pounds or over, raising objections.

 

DeLeon is being rated far too high. On paper he won the title several times, but, most of those were vacant titles against undeserving contenders. He never proved he was "the man", and has almost no wins against quality contenders. He only deserves to be on this list by historical sake only. An inexperienced Holyfield destroyed prime DeLeon. So would many other Cruiserweights from the last 40 years.

 

Al Cole was ranked as cruiserweight of the decade in the 90s by Ring.

 

Leon Spinks, Yanqui Lopez, and Marvin CamelX2 all good wins.

 

Fixed. Drozd is the new #20.