Which of Larry Holmes opponents would be ranked in today`s top 10?

Really? Besides the title holders and Joshua, whos in todays top 10? The likes of Parker, the elderly trio of Ortiz, Povetkin and Pulev, Whyte, drug fuelled Miller and unproven Rivas?

I can’t see any of the guys on my list struggle with any of them.

 

Top 10 is too subjective.

If you do top five guys who he defended successfully against, Cooney would be in and there would be a few other arguable guys at the 5 spot, Witherspoon not included due to lack of experience.

 

Almost all of them in their peak would be in the top ten today. Weaver might not get there. He lost too many time. The bottom spots 5-10 are very weak. While Fury, Wilder and Joshua are the two three today, two of the top three guys were exposed, the other busted on PED's.

 

Obviously if they were all magically transported into modern times the current top 10 would be:

1 Scott Frank
2 Lucien Rodriguez
3 Lorenzo Zanon
4 David Bey
5 Scott LeDoux
6 Tex Cobb
7 Tyson Fury
8 Deontay Wilder
9 Andy Ruiz
10 Anthony Joseph

 

We should ask Oliver McCall since he’s the closest to fighting in both eras.

 

Marvis Frazier would outslick Deontay Wilder.

 

Tyson, Cooney, and Holyfield for sure, spinx possibly as well as Mercer

 

Tyson, Cooney, Holyfield, Berbick, Witherspoon, Norton, Mercer, Carl Williams (he's the most dubious one here imo, very inconsistent chin).

I can't see his first four title defenses charting anywhere today. Cobb might have iron-chinned it into the top 10, and Weaver sometimes got very fortunate.

 

Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

 

You know, I might pick the Leon that beat Ali to handle Ruiz today

 

He had better, because with AJ's 10 oz gas tank he'd be meat later on.