What is ur HW top 10?

Nope. Here's mine:

#1. Muhammad Ali
#2. Joe Louis
#3. Larry Holmes
#4. Lennox Lewis
#5. Sonny Liston
#6. Jack Johnson
#7. Evander Holyfield
#8. George Foreman
#9. Joe Frazier
#10. Mike Tyson
Klits don't belong on an ATG top 10 list, sorry.

EDIT:: I moved Liston up to 5, and swapped him with george.

 

Thats not my list, but it probably should be.

 

PhillyPhan,

I think I am following in love with your list! my only problem is liston all the way down at 10!

 

Nice list,

but you can never talk to me again. :bart

because you forgot the # 1 heavyweight of all time, John Dino Dennis!!

 

True that´s a stretch. Top15 would be more like it.

 

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Stop kidding yourself Mr. "Patterson is as good as Liston" .

Liston is a top 5 heavyweight of all time :good

 

I never said he is as good. I said he can be argued above or on par with Liston.

Liston is no Top10 but everyone has his favourites.

 

Everybody has their agenda's aswell.

 

Today it is as follows:

1. Louis
2. Ali
3. Lewis
4. Holmes
5. Tyson
6. Foreman
7. Marciano
8. Dempsey
9. Jeffries
10. Liston

Not counting any fighter still active, even Holyfield. Jack Johnson just misses the top 10.

 

:huh

 

Unfortunately I believe Wills suffers from never meeting Dempsey. I know that sucks, and it was not his fault. Other than that, I don't rate the non-Langford "murderer's row" as highly as some. Contemporary accounts depict him as a little lethargic and leaden-footed but certainly powerful. I would put him definitely in the top-20, maybe as high as 15.

Liston plowed through what I consider to be a weak era and then had a dismissable reign. However, he dominated that era with impunity.

Tyson did what Dempsey often gets credit for but did it more emphatically and in a harder era. Tyson will be rated higher as time moves on.

 

The fluctuations around Liston are natural considering the fact that his ranking depends almost solely on how you rate his ability (something more subjective), since his achievements certainly don't get him very far.