Your Light-Heavyweight Mt. Rushmore?

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  1. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The four man that define the division in your mind. Not necessarily the best as far as resume or h2h goes, but the ones that make you think: Mein Gott, I could really fall in love with this division.

    Archie Moore
    Ezzard Charles
    Sam Langford
    Roy Jones Jr.

    .. and honorable mentions for: Gene Tunney, Harold Johnson, and Billy Conn.
     
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  2. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ezzard Charles
    Harry Greb
    Gene Tunney
    John Henry Lewis

    Michael Spinks and Archie Moore could easily be changed with any of the bottom 3.

    Bob Foster, Jimmy Bivins and Tommy Laughran not far behind either.
     
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  3. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, Harry Greb and Michael Spinks are my choices.

    Moore has the best title reign in the division's history and has beaten an incredible amount of quality names.

    Charles has defeated Moore 3 times and shares many victims with him, with almost as much depth.

    Greb might outright surpass both in sheer depth with wins over Tunney, Loughran, Gibbons, Dillon, Norfolk, Delaney, Miske, Levinsky and more.

    Spinks has beaten many iconic names like Qawi, Johnson and Mustafa Muhammad at the poundage, and it just feels weird not to mention him given his accomplishments there.
     
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  4. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    This is incredibly tough, so to simplify it I will make it division orientated, and focus on title reigns.

    Tommy Loughran
    Billy Conn
    Archie Moore
    Michael Spinks
     
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  5. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    I'd put Spinks over Jones there ...
     
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  6. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Archie Moore has to be there.
    Bob Foster?
    Jones for sure
    Tommy Loughran

    Others might have an argument are of course Spinks, Dillon, Conn, Tiger, Hopkins and others.
     
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  7. Saintpat

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    Spinks, Moore, Jones, Foster

    Ezz was one of the top three ever in the division probably, but he didn’t win a title there. Greb’s arguably the best fighter ever to spend time in the division but his resume isn’t anchored there.

    So I went with the four I think were best who really did the work at light heavy.
     
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  8. Journeyman92

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    “Never more” quoth the raven
     
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  9. Dynamicpuncher

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    Archie Moore
    Ezzard Charles
    Michael Spinks

    And then Matthew Saad Muhammad for being the most entertaining Light Heavyweight champion of all time.
     
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  10. Stevie G

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    Archie Moore
    Ezzard Charles
    Bob Foster
    Michael Spinks
     
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  11. GoldenHulk

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    Qawi, Spinks, Foster, Moore.
     
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  12. mr. magoo

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    No mention of Michael Spinks ?
     
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  13. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If I would be judging them objectively, then yes. I wanted it to be a biased Mt. Rushmore, hence: "not necessarily the best as far as resume or h2h goes, but the ones that make you think: Mein Gott, I could really fall in love with this division."
     
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  14. Stevie G

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    Absolutely criminal that Ezzard never received a title shot in that division.
     
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  15. yotam bing

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    archie moore
    ezzard charles
    bob foster
    maxie rosenbloom
    i didn't include greb or langford because most of their best work was done at middleweight or heavyweight respetcively
     
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