top 10 lightheavyweight champions

Neither do I.

Thoughts?

 

One of my favorite lists to make

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3. Sam Langford
4. Michael Spinks
5. Bob Foster
6. Billy Conn
7. Gene Tunney
8. Harry Greb
9. Harold Johnson
10. John Henry Lewis

HM: Tommy Loughran

 

This is interesting because some of the usual suspects e.g Langford, Tunney, Charles are barred from standing.

1. Archie Moore
2. Michael Spinks
3. Tommy Loughran
4. Bob Fitzsimmons
5. Billy Conn
6. Jack Dillon
7. Bob Foster
8. Maxie Rosenbloom
9. Harold Johnson
10. John Henry Lewis

 

Some of your picks fall foul of the champion clause.

 

Lauhgrin(spelling) JHL, Charles, Delany, Berlinbauch, OBrien, Bettina, Dillon just some great old names to start things off.

 

Ohhhh...It appears I did not read carefully enough.

Here is my new list

1. Archie Moore
2. Michael Spinks
3. Bob Foster
4. Billy Conn
5. Harold Johnson
6. John Henry Lewis
7. Tommy Loughran
8. Roy Jones
9. Jack Delaney
10. Jack Dillon

 

Not wishing to be pedantic, but did Jones actualy establish lineage?

Opinion seems to be divided on this point.

 

You certainly can make a case he did not. It's a crying shame Jones never fought DM.

Btw I edited my list, Dwight Qawi was never lineal.

 

You have to make a helluva case for ranking him above Archie Moore. I rate Archie Moore in my top 10 greatest fighters of all time list.

 

Michael Spinks broke through against Holmes, where Archie was knocked out against an aging Marciano and relative neophyte Patterson. I wouldn't consider selecting Mike Spinks for a top ten P4P list as an irrational choice either. Michael got caught frozen cold at the end against a peaking Tyson, while Moore was starched in one at 175 by Morrow.

Within 175 itself, I would argue that Michael never came as close to being dethroned as Moore did in the first Durelle fight. Michael was never defeated at 175, while Archie got knocked out by Charles as well as Morrow. Moore outweighed Patterson by five pounds when they fought. If they both came in under 175 for Marciano's vacant title, would Archie have been left without a crown?

I do rate Michael at the top. Making weight was never going to be any kind of issue for him, and he was at a point where he could have reigned unchallenged at 175 for as long as he cared to.

Moore is my number two choice. Given a timely shot at Freddie Mills or Lesnevich, and considering that he drew with Pastrano in 1962, the realization surfaces that he could easily have reigned from the 1940s to the 1960s. Reaching further, maybe even from WW II to Vietnam, given some lucky breaks and discriminant cautious matchmaking.

3) Loughran. For a fleeting moment after Tunney's retirement, Tommy may have been the best heavyweight in the world as well. In the first half of 1929, Loughran-Walker and Loughran-Braddock were as close as we came to having heavyweight title fights in Gene's immediate wake.

4) Conn. Billy could be beaten at 160. He owned 175, handling his successor Lesnevich twice. Like Spinks and Moore, he could easily have reigned for over a decade. (In fact, if Billy had gone on as long as possible, Moore would have been the one to eventually dethrone him.)

5) Bob Foster.

6) Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

7) Jack Delaney

8 Harold Johnson

9) Battling Levinski

10) Jack Dillon

HM: John Henry Lewis

 

A good list, but I cant see why you have Bat Levinsky over Jack Dillon when their series was so lopsided.

 

Bob Foster was a bum.

 

He beat Frankie De Paula