The guy that stands out the most to me, unquestionably, is Mike Tyson. If he won the fight, he WON the fight. I suppose if this question included gift stoppages, then the first Ruddock fight could come into question, not that Tyson was losing or in danger of losing that fight anyways. Nonetheless, that's not the question, and if it was it would look a whole lot worse for other great Heavyweights rather than Tyson.
SOME great Heavyweights who got gift decisions:
Ali (Norton III, Young)
Louis (Walcott I)
Holmes (Witherspoon)
Lewis (Mercer)
Holyfield (Bowe II, Mercer, Ruiz I)
Marciano (Roland LaStarza I, Ted Lowry I)
Sharkey (Renault, Schmeling II)
Feel free to add, disagree, etc. I purposefully left things out just to get responses.
SOME great Heavyweights who got gift decisions:
Ali (Norton III, Young)
Louis (Walcott I)
Holmes (Witherspoon)
Lewis (Mercer)
Holyfield (Bowe II, Mercer, Ruiz I)
Marciano (Roland LaStarza I, Ted Lowry I)
Sharkey (Renault, Schmeling II)
Feel free to add, disagree, etc. I purposefully left things out just to get responses.
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