Who were the top 10 heavies during the 80`s

Charlie Zelenoff's dad.

 

I posted KO Magazines top 12 of the decade years ago so that will start you off.

Ratings done mid 1989 -

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mike Tyson
3. Michael Dokes
4. Mike Weaver
5. Pinklon Thomas
6. Tim Witherspoon
7. Greg Page
8. Gerrie Coetzee
9. Trevor Berbick
10. Michael Spinks
11. Tony Tubbs
12. Carl Williams

 

I remember that exact issue and reading those ratings at the time. Looking back I think Dokes was too high and Berbick and Witherspoon too low

 

Ahhh the good old days. When you could actually pronounce the names..

 

He was. He was underrated as crazy back then tho.

 

This was not easy. The dearth of quality heavyweights in the 1980s left me struggling to find reasons to put people in the top ten list. I based this list strictly on their fights at heavyweight in the 1980s. Ya know, if this question had been to rank the top ten heavyweights who fought at any time during the 1980s, this would have been quite a list. Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Bowe and Lewis all would have qualified.

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mike Tyson
3. Tim Witherspoon
4. Michael Spinks
5. Mike Weaver
6. Buster Douglas
7. Pinklon Thomas
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Tony Tucker
10. James "Bonecrusher" Smith

 

So, Holmes' reign over half the decade doesn't make no.3?

This must be April Fool's.

Did Tyson actually beat a fighter the caliber of Ken Norton during his reign? Berbick, Tucker, Bruno, faded Thomas, Biggs, Tubbs, light heavy Spinks...do any of them measure up to Ken? I'm honestly curious, just asking.

 

That's true and part of what made this list so difficult. Once you get past the first four or five a lot of the Alphabet Boys beat each other. Tucker, Tubbs, Page, Smith, Biggs, Williams and others could not really sustain any kind of consistent dominance over the rest.

 

1. Tyson
2. Holmes
3. M Spinks
4. Thomas
5. Witherspoon
6. Weaver
7. Berbick
8. Coetzee
9. Smith
10. Tubbs

Lol at Holmes minus Norton, Shavers I and Weaver being put ahead of Tyson.

 

Holmes is 3rd. Tyson "Tokio Douglas" version Is n.10

 

1) Larry Holmes
2) Mike Tyson
3) Tim Witherspoon
4) Pinklon Thomas
5) Michael Spinks
6,) Trevor Berbick
7) Tony Tubbs
8) Greg Page
9) Mike Weaver
10) Michael Dokes

Honorable Mention: Gerrie Coetzee

 

Right after the winners podium, the steps really become terribly thin nuances.