Historian's Rankings of the All Time Top 10 Greatest Heavyweights

[sonnyboyx2]

[Barn]

It's funny to watch Ali slowly creep up the lists as time goes by.
Thanks.

[SBleeder]

It's funny to watch Ali slowly creep up the lists as time goes by.
Thanks.

Holmes too.

[sonnyboyx2]

It's funny to watch Ali slowly creep up the lists as time goes by.
Thanks.

i would put that down to the younger historians having never seen Dempsey, Johnson, Jeffries etc in the flesh

[Barn]

i would put that down to the younger historians having never seen Dempsey, Johnson, Jeffries etc in the flesh

Would you rank them over Ali?

[Greatest1942]

Would you rank them over Ali?

Are you 100% sure they aren't so good just except the fact that they are old timers?
Disclaimer:- I rank Ali higher than Jeffries,Dempsey Or Johnson etc.

[sonnyboyx2]

Would you rank them over Ali?

i am not a boxing historian, But Red Smith was the greatest Boxing Journalist ever and i would take his word when he talked about who was the greatest.. here is an article by him.

[Obama]

You can expect to see Wlad's name on many of these top ten in five years time.

Let's not get carried away. Top 20 lists ok. Top 10, not happening.

[Dave Rado]

It's funny to watch Ali slowly creep up the lists as time goes by.
Thanks.

He was in the top 2 (#1 in some listings) before he even retired. That's not slow at all.

[Dave Rado]

Let's not get carried away. Top 20 lists ok. Top 10, not happening.

If he keeps winning for several more years, and especially if Haye finally gets up the balls to fight him and gets dominated, then he'll get close to the top 10, and quite possibly within it, due to length and dominance of reign, plus knock-out ratio.

Lewis only cracked the P4P lists at the very end of his reign after he'd beaten Tyson. Wlad has already cracked them. And Holmes' competition was mostly no better than Wlad's. And Wlad's jab is comparable with Holmes' jab, possibly even better.