What would the most ENTERTAINING Heavyweight Class be?

If you could make the most entertaining (not necessarily best) Heavyweight Era using fighters from any time, what would it look like? Pick one champion and ten contenders to make the best, most competitive era:

CHAMPION-ALI

TOP 10 (in no order)

Bert Cooper
Jerry Quarry
Joe frazier
George Chuvalo
Jersey Joe Walcott
Evander Holyfield
Ray Mercer
Rocky Marciano
Earnie Shavers
Sam Langford

Personally I'd say Cooper-Frazier is one of the best heavyweight match ups ever for pure entertainment.

 

Good list but you gotta have Tyson, just for pure excitment, also Foreman would make things better as well.

 

I'd hardly call holyfield, frazier, langford, marciano or walcott conteders! and if you're allowed to include actual champs as conteders then I can think of a way better list including the likes of Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Joe Louis, jack Dempsey, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Jack Johnson, Sonny Liston, Larry Holmes....**** maybe even a Klitschko over the chuvalo/mercer/shavers....you get the picture

 

id throw jimmy thunder in there and tommy morrison

 

haha, well half the trick is making the most competitive and exciting matches. I can't see holmes or johnson being EXCITING. And Lewis while skilled would make bad matches because of his size.

Now mercer while always exciting, chuvalo would never stopped coming and shavers also had a puncher's chance.

 

Hmmm:

10 guys for the most entertaining division?

Evander Holyfield, Vitali Klitschko, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, David Tua, Riddick Bowe, Andrew Golota, Joe Fraizer, Randall "Tex" Cobb and Ike Ibeabuchi.

Not exactly an ATG list but if you're looking for exciting fights it's all about mixing the right STYLES up with the right talent level.

 

Tyson is a good addition. Which foreman though?

 

Champion - Lennox Lewis

Top contenders (in no order)

Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Joe Louis
George Foreman (age 40's)
Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Jonh L. Sulivan (I want to see his throwback style vs the new style)
Oliver McCall
Shannon Briggs
Muhammad Ali
Max Baer
Roy Jones jr.
Donovan Ruddock
Vitali Klitschko
Ray Mercer

 

:goodExactly. I like Ibeabuchi and Tex Cobb. Cobb sort of fills my chavulo role of someone who just keeps coming.

 

Although Tex Cobb press conferences were more entertaining

 

I like these. Baer especially, when motivated, was one of the best hitters ever and very durable.