top 10 light heavyweights of all times

[Yogi]

Off Topic, SABBATH; but is that you in your Avie?

Good God, for his sake I would hope not.

[SABBATH]

Off Topic, SABBATH; but is that you in your Avie?

Yes it is.

[brownpimp88]

would anyone else like to post thier list of top 10 at 175. Who here thinks that 1975-1985 may have been the peak of the division.

[Yogi]

The mid/late 70's era for the light heavyweight division was wonderful as far as depth goes, and a good amount of that depth did spill over into the first couple years of the 1980's, but come 1985 the depth of the division had fallen off quite a bit over the recent years and was pretty weak in comparisions to what it had been 5 to 10 years earlier.

[K-DOGG]

Off the Cuff...

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Gene Tunney
3. Archie Moore
4. Billy Conn
5. Michael Spinks
6. Roy Jones Jr.
7. Sam Langford
8. Bob Foster
9. "Philadelphia" Jack O'Brien
10. Maxie Rosenbloom

[SABBATH]

Good God, for his sake I would hope not.

I won't put much weight into the personal slur since it's coming from another time zone.

[K-DOGG]

Yes it is.

Pro or amateur, or jes posing? Record?

Couple of years ago I presume.

[Yogi]

I gotta learn from K-Dogg and make better use of those smilies.

[K-DOGG]

I gotta learn from K-Dogg and make better use of those smilies.

They do help pre-empt any potentially misconstued interpretations of the written word.

Well, ususally.

[SABBATH]

Pro or amateur, or jes posing? Record?
Couple of years ago I presume.

That was about 10 years ago at MGM studios in front of a wall that was plastered with 1930's fight posters. I just siezed a good photo-op.

I used to train as an amateur out of McGrory's Gym in Hamilton Ontario from the ages of 13-18. McGrory's used to host a fight card every year at John A MacDonald High School and one of the boxing clubs that used to attend was from the nearby town of Kitchener.

Kitchener Boxing Club had a big tall heavyweight who always came to the the fight cards but never fought because none of the other clubs had a heavyweight so he would sit and watch and cheer for his teammates when they fought.

The heavyweight was always announced to the crowd as an Olympic hopeful and I used to go out of my way to talk to him. He was very quite and polite and the last time I saw him was in early 1984 and I wished him luck on making the team and going to the Los Angeles Olympics.

That was the last time I spoke with Lennox Lewis.