Top 3 Joe louis wins and ATG Heavyweight Rankings

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  1. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    Where do you have the top 3 fighters Joe Louis beat in your all-time heavy weight rankings?
     
  2. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    John Henry Lewis, Braddock, Farr and Max Baer are somewhere in the top 20-35 range. Max Baer is the worst H2H but probably has the best resume.
     
  3. OddR

    OddR Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I don't have a clue but from my understanding people may have Walcott like Top 20 or Top 30?
     
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  4. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Schmeling, Walcott and Billy Conn.
     
  5. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    You can make a case for Baer, Schmeling and Walcott in the top twenty, though they have likely slipped into the top thirty while I have been posting on this forum.

    Jack Sharkey is probably still top thirty, but you make what you8 will of the version that Louis fought.

    John Henry Lewis and Billy Conn could still easily be placed in the top ten at light heavyweight.

    So overall that is not bad eighty years after the fact.
     
  6. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    From memory I have Schmeling and Walcott both between #21-25 and Baer just outside my top #25.