now, lets dont look past Adamak...
j/k
Haye would beat every other HW aside Klitschko, but his non-performance in such an unbelievable huge event vs Wladimir was just dreadful for the fans.
Valuev, tho pricing himself out several times, would be fun to watch.
A black American getting beat by another black American. Of course he's going to get all the credit unlike others.
Calzaghe fighting Eubank, Jones, and Hopkins....they are over the hill and no credit for him.
That's just one of the examples.
Eubank is an englishman.
Hopkins and esp. Jones were considered past it long before Calzaghe fought em.
maybe we should separate the different eras.
John L. Sullivan era - Jack Johnson era - Muhammad Ali era and inbetween we have the Jack Dempsey era and the Joe Louis era and as we go down in weight, it will be a cleft Europe as there are more fighters that werent publicized like THE heavyweight champion of the world.
to do an ATG list is like fishing for stars.
Ortiz comes from his biggest win (with Berto being the betting favorite) for the WBC belt (Floyd'as favorite belt) at WW (Floyd's division) and is ranked the best WW (2# contender) behind Manny (who has a fight set).
fact is that the fight did high HBO numbers (1.5M) and Ortiz has a big fanbase in Mexico and America.
any questions?