Which Heavy Has The Most Impressive Names On His Resume?

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  1. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Which fighter who campaigned in the heavy division has the most impressive list of names on his resume?
    They don't have to be wins ,but men he faced.
     
  2. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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  3. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jim Jeffries has six legendary Hall of Famers on his record... Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Johnson, Sharkey, Choynski and Jackson...
     
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  5. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    How about having the following on your sheet?
    Dempsey x2
    Johnson x2
    Langford x6
    Fulton
    Morris x3
    O Brien
    Dillon x4
    Miske
    Levinsky x3
    Burns
    Gardner
    McCarty x2
    Smith x2
    Flowers
    Papke
    Kaufmanx2
     
  6. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ali

    Liston*2
    Patterson*2
    Foreman
    Frazier*3
    Holmes
    Norton*3

    and many others

    Holyfield

    Tyson*2
    Lewis*2
    Foreman
    Holmes
    Bowe*3
    Qawi*2

    and many others
     
  7. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Alis big 4 Liston, Frazier, Holmes and Foreman all, arguably top 10
    Then there's Patterson, Norton, Quarry, Lyle, Shavers, Spinks, Folley, Moore, Bonavena, Cooper, Fosters Archie and Mac, Mildenberger, Chuvalo, Doug Jones etc etc........that is a superb record
     
  8. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Gotta go with Ali-

    Liston x2
    Patterson x2
    Terrell
    Frazier 2 out of 3
    Norton 2 out of 3
    Foreman
    Ellis
    L. Spinks 1 out of 2
    Folley
    Young
    Lyle
    Quarry x2
    Shavers
    Bugner

    ...can't forget Holmes and Berbick
     
  9. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Sure, I'm a big Holyfield fan-

    Prior to HW he beat-

    Qawi x2, DeLeon, Ocasio, Parkey, Booze, Tillman, and others.

    At HW he faced-

    Tillis, Thomas, Dokes, Rodrigues, Stewart x2, Douglas, Foreman, Cooper, Holmes, Bowe x3, Moorer x2, Mercer, Czyz, Tyson x2, Bean, Lewis x2, Ruiz x3, Rahman, Byrd, Toney, Donald, Savarese, Oquendo, Valuev, Nielsen, Botha, and others.
     
  10. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Ali fought an old Archie Moore, Doug Jones, Henry Cooper x2, Chuvalo, Bonavena, and plenty of other good HWs.
     
  11. SolomonDeedes

    SolomonDeedes Active Member Full Member

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    How about Eddie Machen? Faced Liston, Frazier, Patterson, Johansson, Terrell, Folley, Williams, Quarry, Maxim, Johnson, and many other good fighters.
     
  12. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Everett "bigfoot" Martin

    - Larry Holmes
    - George Foreman
    - Wladimir Klitscko
    - Tony Tubbs
    - Tim Witherspoon
    - Michael Moorer
    - Boncrusher Smith
    - Burt Cooper
    - Dwight Qawi
    - Francesco Damiani
    - Gary Mason
    - Lamon Brewster
    - Tony Tucker
    - Pierre Coetzer
    - Herbie Hide
    - Ruslan CHageav
    - Danell Nicholson
     
  13. BCS8

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    Poor ol' Bigfoot ... they really put him through the wringer.
     
  14. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Fireman Jim?
     
  15. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    pretty solid