Which Heavyweight Champ Had The Shortest Prime?

You won the heavyweight title?

 

Tommy Burns (5'7)

 

Bowe and Buster Douglas' primes basically begin and finished on one night

 

Two very simular fighters as it happens.

 

Sadly yes they had the talent aswell - Bowe especially was brilliant the night he won the title

 

Did Tunney have a prime. Seemed to retire as he was peaking.
Bowe and Douglas are good calls. Johansson is too. Three guys who were undisciplined and it showed as soon as they won title.

 

Foreman would be my pick, even if it was quite subtle (or not, depends how you look at it). I think his style tweaked in a way that did not suit him after Zaire

 

it could be argued Bowes stretched the entire 3 Holy fights even not winning them all,

Busters to me was even shorter,,,

 

you serious ?....he was arguably the best heavyweight from 59 to when clay got him in 64.

 

First guy I thought of.

 

Well, I was just looking from when he became Champ to when people consider him to be past prime. '62-'64

 

thats not the same as prime

 

Come now. Sonny Liston decimated the division prior to being champ. People forget that he was made to wait years for his shot.

Tyson also decimated said division over a few years. Frazier did too.

Buster Douglas was a ranked contender for a couple years before Tyson.

Just cause a guy held the title briefly doesn't mean that he didn't have a prime. Being a contender counts for something. Even Leon Spinks, erratic as he was, had to be considered a handful from about 1977-1981.

Perhaps Ingemar Johannsson.

This is an interesting but hard to answer question, due to the many possible definitions of 'prime'.