top 100 heavyweights ever

Louis, while way past his prime, was bothered by Marciano’s style, and Frazier fought similar to Marciano. This is a place to express and/or debate your boxing views. If you're a boxing fan you must read this book."

Mcgrain is it true Jack Johnson did not make the 100 top boxers of all time list? Joe Frazier - that win over Ali earns him the spot. The point is that neither Larry Holmes nor Joe Louis would have been stopped.

There is a shot taken from a gantry camera for that fight that is as instructive as it was terrifying; Ali moving to his left, that famous floating sidestepping motion, but he couldn’t alight on the canvas for even a second because loping in tandem with him, just as fast but even more deadly, was Frazier, cutting off the ring on Ali before he knew where he was headed, and hooks, and short right hands inside, and grind grind This win, this greatest of heavyweight wins, toppled Frazier past his prime, the fuel that kept that 205-lb. But as Toledo also says, “the fighter who stepped into the ring against Cassius Clay was not the fighter who stepped into the ring against Cleveland Williams five years earlier.” Previous to that, he demonstrated to me a jab, a hook, a right hand, an uppercut and head-movement all among the best in the history of the division. Cooney was through as a fighter after Holmes, and judging him on his losses to Spinks and Foreman is like judging Ali on his losses to Leon Spinks. in Savold’s last fight meet the modern criteria for heavyweights. Bearcat Wright who outweighed Walker by more than forty pounds.

He numbers among the strongest, the most technically assured and the most powerful in that division, and despite that first round stoppage against Ali, had one of the better chins. The danger, the glamour, the sheer impossibility of the gargantuan wounds they inflict upon one-another. The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part One: 100-91 By Matt McGrain on June 13, 2014 Firpo’s shot at Dempsey was paved as much by promotional bluster as solid foundation. Two one-round knockouts over journeymen followed before he went to war with the 210 lbs.

With only a few months to learn the differences between the Pride FC ring and the UFC's Octagon, he was visibly less comfortable in his new environment. !=))))  Authors can speak between themselves -  it is question to chief editor !=))Excellent work Matt. For various reasons, I prefered others to them and am comfortable with that.I think Morrison could be in top 100, although his wins were vs over the Hill boxers.

He was a burning ogre of a fighter, delivering hot violence behind technical surety. I think I wrote in part one or perhaps two, that there are about forty names that could have been placed in the bottom quarter.

When his hand was raised after ten tough rounds, as it would be in a rematch three months later, Walker was confirmed as a ranked heavyweight.

No, it’s not a pound-for-pound list – on a pound-for-pound list Walker’s achievement regardless of size would be a boon but here it works against him. And two, you aren’t going to agree with everything I say…but we can have fun while we disagree. Here is what I would Jim Jeffries, Jack Dempsey, Harry Wills, Evander Holyfield, they all belong upon it and are not upon it. 2020-02-22T15:50:12Z This, he did, in a single round of contained violence perhaps only excelled by my own favorite Louis performance some seventeen defenses later, against Buddy Baer. Something of a non-effort against Muhammad Ali was counter-balanced by his brave effort against Joe Frazier, who dropped Bugner in the tenth, but could not stop him, leading to his naming Bugner a “great fighter,” his left eye closed by the bigger man’s jab.And it was a good jab; it was matched by a straightening right hand, a 6’4 frame capped off by a decent jaw that supported good durability. I doubt Frazier would take 13 rounds to knockout a 170lb featherfisted Billy Conn either, much less be actually losing after 12 rounds to an undersized light heavy.

Cooney found his highest gear after cutting Young hideously with a left hand and he looked, briefly, legitimately impressive. If Louis would have made 10 or 12 more defenses, and had 36 or 37 consecuritve defenses of his title, would he still be number 2? He refocused, called an immediate rematch, and won — easily. Evander Holyfield - edges Tyson for the final spot because he edged Tyson in the ring. The whole Valdes caca is nearly as played out as the Dempsey avoided Wills deal.

In a strange echo of this equation I found myself trying to write fifteen men into the top ten and thirty men into the top twenty. I was also glad not to see Ezzard Charles. He had an extraordinary will to win.Larry Holmes didn’t quit after fighting a few old-timers (Marciano), he didn’t get blasted out by middling contenders (Lewis), and he didn’t duck the top contender for years like Lewis did with Wladimir Klitschko (one could argue he ducked a lot of people, actually). But you add Quarry in the list?!

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