Greatest Southpaw Heavyweight Champion (besides Moorer)?

[famicommander]

There have only been six southpaw heavyweight champions in history:
Michael Moorer
Chris Byrd
Corrie Sanders
Sultan Ibragimov
Ruslan Chagaev
Charles Martin

Of the list, obviously Moorer is the most accomplished:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Cooper, no defenses)
WBA/IBF Unified and Lineal Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, lost on first defense to Foreman)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Shulz, 2 defenses, lost in a unification to Holyfield)

Of the other 5, who would you say was the best fighter? Who had the best career?

Chris Byrd:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (stopped Vitali, lost to Wlad next fight)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, 4 defenses, lost to Wlad)

Corrie Sanders:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Wlad, vacated to fight Vitali immediately)

Sultan Ibragimov:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Briggs, defended against Holyfield, lost to Wlad)

Ruslan Chagaev:
WBA Heavyweight Champion (beat Valuev, 2 defenses, lost to Wlad)
WBA (Regular) Heavyweight Champion (beat Oquendo, 1 defense)

Charles Martin:
IBF Heavyweight Champion (won a vacant belt when his opponent blew out a knee, immediately got destroyed and quit vs Joshua)

[QueensburyRules]

There have only been six southpaw heavyweight champions in history:
Michael Moorer
Chris Byrd
Corrie Sanders
Sultan Ibragimov
Ruslan Chagaev
Charles Martin

Of the list, obviously Moorer is the most accomplished:
WBO Heavyweight Champion ( beat Cooper, no defenses)
WBA/IBF Unified Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, lost on first defense to Foreman)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Shulz, 2 defenses, lost in a unification to Holyfield)

Of the other 5, who would you say was the best fighter? Who had the best career?

Chris Byrd:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (Knocked out Wlad, lost to Vitali next fight)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, 4 defenses, lost to Wlad)

Corrie Sanders:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Wlad, vacated to fight Vitali immediately)

Sultan Ibragimov:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Briggs, defended against Holyfield, lost to Wlad)

Ruslan Chagaev:
WBA Heavyweight Champion (beat Valuev, 2 defenses, lost to Wlad)
WBA (Regular) Heavyweight Champion (beat Oquendo, 1 defense)

Charles Martin:
IBF Heavyweight Champion (won a vacant belt when his opponent blew out a knee, immediately got destroyed and quit vs Joshua)

- -Re Byrd-

Mixed up Vit, 0-1 with Wlad, 2-0.

Iggy prob the best lefty of the bunch, and a little known factoid is Wlad beat the most lefties in title fights with no heavy close.

And note the general lefty proliferation is strictly modern in all weight classes.
People want to talk about racism in boxing when lefties were 99% converted to righties so they could get decent fights.

Oddly, baseball is a lefty centric game that favors them for the whole of the MLB history even as they excluded blacks until 1947.

[JAB5239]

There have only been six southpaw heavyweight champions in history:
Michael Moorer
Chris Byrd
Corrie Sanders
Sultan Ibragimov
Ruslan Chagaev
Charles Martin

Of the list, obviously Moorer is the most accomplished:
WBO Heavyweight Champion ( beat Cooper, no defenses)
WBA/IBF Unified Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, lost on first defense to Foreman)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Shulz, 2 defenses, lost in a unification to Holyfield)

Of the other 5, who would you say was the best fighter? Who had the best career?

Chris Byrd:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (Knocked out Wlad, lost to Vitali next fight)
IBF Heavyweight Champion (beat Holyfield, 4 defenses, lost to Wlad)

Corrie Sanders:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Wlad, vacated to fight Vitali immediately)

Sultan Ibragimov:
WBO Heavyweight Champion (beat Briggs, defended against Holyfield, lost to Wlad)

Ruslan Chagaev:
WBA Heavyweight Champion (beat Valuev, 2 defenses, lost to Wlad)
WBA (Regular) Heavyweight Champion (beat Oquendo, 1 defense)

Charles Martin:
IBF Heavyweight Champion (won a vacant belt when his opponent blew out a knee, immediately got destroyed and quit vs Joshua)

Byrd, but he beat Vitaly, not Wlad.

Ibragimov

Chagaev

Sander, though he never beat another top 10 heavyweight besides Wlad.

Martin

Head to head I would say....

Ibragimov
Byrd
Moorer
Chagaev
Sanders
Martin

[Thunderstruck]

Sanders would make mush of Moorers tomato chin.

[JAB5239]

Sanders would make mush of Moorers tomato chin.

Like this?

[QueensburyRules]

- -Btw, Joe Frazier reputedly one of those converted lefties.

I've often suspected Wlad to be one too given how he could dominate and KO opponent with just his left.

[Willie Pep 229]

If your talking about converted lefties -- then isn't Moorer ass backward to this list, a righty who fought south paw?

They say (and I have tried it) ask a six year old with no boxing knowledge whatsoever to strike a boxing stance and he will inevitably lead with his dominated hand. Then you have to turn him around. Story is they left the right handed Moorer in the wrong stance to gain power in his jab.

Try it with a six year old sometime it is cute to watch them strike a stance.

[famicommander]

Sanders would make mush of Moorers tomato chin.

Moorer only got stopped by Foreman, Holyfield, and Tua.

[Marchegiano]

Why are WBO champions before 2007 considered legitimate world champions?

[QueensburyRules]

Why are WBO champions before 2007 considered legitimate world champions?

- -IBO and WBO more legit than the IBF tubby Lar helped create so he wouldn't have to face his WBC mandatories. The founder relocated to the Big House inside 6 months for fraud.