Top 5 Heavy Weights to never become Lineal champs

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  1. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    who in your opinion are the top 5 Heavy Weights to never earn the championship (lineal)? There are plenty that may have won in other eras but maybe they ran into unstoppable forces of their times.
    Archie Moore
    Buddy Baer
    Tommy Morrison
    Ike ibeabuchi
    And about three or four guys from the 70s lol if I had to pick one Shavers
    I know I’m missing some solid people so who got screwed being in the era they were in?
     
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  2. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Maybe Chris Byrd instead of Tommy Morrison idk to many to chose
     
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  3. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    You'd have to consider

    Sam Langford
    Harry Wills
    Peter Jackson
     
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Tommy Morrison doesn't make the top 30.
     
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  5. The Undefeated Lachbuster

    The Undefeated Lachbuster On the Italian agenda Full Member

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    Interestingly enough, I made a poll about this in a popular boxing community in G+. I made it between Archie, Shavers and Cleveland Williams.

    Archie Moore won by a landslide, if that means anything. But yeah Williams should definitely be on that list. In my humble opinion, Tua and Harry Wills are also good picks
     
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  6. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No one thinks Vitali deserves a mention?
     
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  7. Gudetama

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    1. V Klitschko
    2. Wills
    3. Langford
    4. Norton
    5. Jackson
    6. Jeanette
    7. Witherspoon
    8. Ray
    9. McVey
    10. Young
     
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  8. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Larry Gaines is a name I have not seen mentioned yet.

    Tommy Morrison? The guy who was knocked out by a guy with brain damage? Struggled with Joe Hipp and Ross Purity? The guy from Rocky V? That Morrrison? There is not another one from the roaring 20's or something?
     
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  9. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Moore& Baer had two chances, maybe they weren't good enough at heavyweight?
    Langford, who never got a chance tops my list.
     
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  10. chatty

    chatty Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Langford, Jeanette, Wills, Jackson, Ray. A lot of the old guard who didn't get shots will make up the list.
     
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  11. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    McVey?
     
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  12. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Vitali should be number one idk how I missed that one. Morrison had a few solid wins one against a top three HW ever. Cleveland Williams I was going to put but didn’t know who to drop lol there are a lot of people that may have won it all if born at a different time
     
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  13. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Deontay Wilder. The likes of Wils , Langford and Joe Jennete would get ironed out badly by Wilder.

    I would take an on for Morrison to do the same and to Wilder as well , so in a h2h sense they are up around the top.
     
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  14. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Chris Byrd is above Vitali.
     
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    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    1) Harry Wills
    2) Sam Langford
    3) Ken Norton
    4) Peter Jackson
    5) Vitali Klitschko
    6) Joe Jeanette
    7) Sam McVey
    8) Elmer Ray
    9) Jimmy Young
    10) Tim Witherspoon
     
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