Who were the top 10 heavyweights in tyhe last 20 years?

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Starting with No.1 being the best rank the top 10 heavies in the last 20 years.
     
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  2. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Since 2001?

    In no particular order:

    Wlad
    Vitali
    Joshua
    Fury
    Wilder
    Byrd
    Povetkin
    Haye
    Ruiz
    Ibragimov or Chagaev, perhaps?

    EDIT: Rahman should replace Ruiz, Ibragimov, or Chagaev, although he might fall just outside the 20 year mark.
     
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  3. McGrain

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    01 - Wladimir Klitschko
    02 - Lennox Lewis
    03 - Tyson Fury
    04 - Vitali Klitschko
    05 - Alexander Povetkin
    06 - Anthony Joshua
    07 - Chris Byrd
    08 - Ruslan Chagaev
    09 - Deontay Wilder
    10 - Oleg Maskaev

    Infinitely arguable because it's very close.

    Note that Wilder gets busted out or Fury tumbles and Wilder climbs on Sunday, which may have been a better day to ask this question.

    Holyfield absolutely does not belong.
     
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  4. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    1. Audley Harrison
    2. Dominick Guinn
    3. Joe Messi
    4. Luis Ortiz
    5. David Price
    6. Robert Helenius
    7. Shannon Briggs
    8. Manuel Charr
    9. Bryant Jennings
    10. Dave Allen
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Who`s No.2? Did you right Tyson so high because he beat Golota?
     
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  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Ortiz would have toyed with every other name on that list, how many rounds would Price have lasted v Wilder?
     
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    Pretty close I would guess.
     
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  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Usyk is better than AJ and anybody he ever beat.
     
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  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Usyk is better than AJ and was a better cruisder than Haye. Neither Ruiz is anywhere near Usyk`s level, Usyk would have destroyed Roy Jones.
     
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  10. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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  11. The Long Count

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    Wlad
    Vitali
    Povetkin
    Byrd
    Fury
    Joshua
    Lewis
    Chagaev
    Wilder
    Ruiz

    Very debatable list. I rate Lewis so low because in the last 20 years in the time frame he has a KP loss to Rahman a ko over Rahman and win over a shot Tyson and a win over vitali in which he was trailing. 3-1 is not enough to rate him higher.
     
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  12. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Rahman might have done just enough in the 2000s to squeeze in there over, say, Chagaev.
     
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  13. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Usyk beat AJ head to head, but that doesn't automatically give him AJ's record at heavyweight.

    As to Ruiz, I was referring to Huggy Bear, not the other one. John Ruiz lost to Jones (where he didn't maul Jones), but also beat a bunch of people and stayed on top for a while.
     
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  14. Stiches Yarn

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    Uhhhh sorry, i thought we were ranking them in terms of their "entire career" acheivements.
    Because if it was the case, Tyson certainly outranks the likes of Aj, Povetkin,Fury, the Klitschko brothers ex...
     
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  15. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    I don't think that really makes sense.

    If you think that way, Larry Holmes is probably a lock for top 2
     
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