Comments Thread For: The Top 25 Heavyweights of All-Time – Top Ten

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By Cliff Rold - For any new boxing fan, the time is not long before a fellow fan points out a magic number which grows more mythologized with time: eight. As in boxing’s original eight weight classes. The number represents in the mind of many a time when the sport was compressed into fields which couldn’t help but be talented, couldn’t help but draw crowds, because there were so few places on the scale to go. They were divisions marked by single champions ever challenged by a depth of contenders today’s seventeen weight classes rarely know. [Click Here To Read More]

[EL ANIMAL]

i think rid**** bowe was the worst heavyweight champ in history, he should be ashamed of his accomplishments. he won the tittle in spectacular fashion ok but that was it! he defended against jesse furgeson & michael dokes (are u kidding) then refused a lewis fight and literally trashed the wbc belt. nuff said with him. i also think lewis and holyfield are rightfully in the top 10 but should trade spots just looking at their accomplishments. no disrespect to either.

[Boss Don]

Good list but I don't know about Holyfield being number six I don't even think he top 10

[boricuaincali]

Totally disagree. John Ruiz should be in the top 5 with his unique boxing style and abilities.

[Tiozzo]

The list turned out like I thought it would. I think the top 5 order is perfect, but I'm not sure about the top 5 - top 10 order. Lewis seems a bit low in the rankings at number 9 compared to the inconsistant Holyfield at number 6, ahead of Frazier and Marciano. Not sure about that...

My top 10 would be more like this :

10. Dempsey
9. Holyfield
8. Lewis
7. Marciano
6. Frazier

I believe Lewis deserves to be ahead of Holyfield, not because he beat him, but because he was more consistent, despite being ko'ed twice. I believe people tend to rank Holyfield a bit higher than he deserves to be based on an emotional link : he is easily one of the greatest warriors ever, it's hard to overlook that, even in defeat.

[Tiozzo]

Totally disagree. John Ruiz should be in the top 5 with his unique boxing style and abilities.

Don't be shy, say it out loud : Ruiz is THE GREATEST. He floats like a somnambulist and stings like a rhinoceros. SSSimply the bessst.

[jtiger78]

tyson should get a little more respect here

[giacomino]

I think the names in the top 10 are right. I might have done a little shuffling, like putting Foreman at #9 and moving Marciano and Lewis up a bit, but other than that it's pretty darn good

[Kilrain]

The list sucks. Harry Wills at number 11? Has the writer actually seen Harry Wills? I know I haven't. I doubt there is more than a couple of minutes of footage on him. I recently ordered all the Sugar Ray Robinson fights he had from my main dvd contact, a guy who's been archiving fights for years and a boxing collector. Even he only had about 10 fights of Ray's, as well as some documentarys/highlight reels. And Ray fought decades after Wills and was actually a celebrated, multi-weight champion. So I don't see any justification for ranking a fighter from an inferior era no less, with very little if any footage of him around, number 11. It boggles the mind. He's clearly overrated old timers. Marciano at 8? Marciano was a crude brawler who came along at the right time. Floyd Patterson would've licked him if he hadn't retired as early and Marciano's people knew it. Jack Johnson should not be number 3 either. I've seen a little footage of Jack, not a great deal, but enough to know he was great for his time, but certainly doesn't deserve to be on a Top 10 All Time list, that's for sure. Above someone as accomplished as Mike Tyon..noooooooo. There's many other flaws in the list but I can't be bothered going into them

[seplin3]

tyson should get a little more respect here

Tyson was on the way to becoming #2 but he derailed himself. Still I think he should be much higher than where he is.