Greatest Heavyweights of the 90's?

[SpiderRico]

[SpiderRico]

Well I messed that up, not a great first pose. Was supposed to be asking for peoples Top 10.

Here's my personal list;

Lewis
Bowe
Holyfield
Tyson
Moorer
Foreman
McCall
Mercer
Morrison
Ibeabuchi

Gets quite tough toward the bottom, lot's of fighters could reasonably sit 8-10 I think.

[QueensburyRules]

Well I messed that up, not a great first pose. Was supposed to be asking for peoples Top 10.

Here's my personal list;

Lewis
Bowe
Holyfield
Tyson
Moorer
Foreman
McCall
Mercer
Morrison
Ibeabuchi

Gets quite tough toward the bottom, lot's of fighters could reasonably sit 8-10 I think.

- - Tyson well into early disintegration during the 90s hard to rank, first as a draw though. He never lost his fan appeal.

I'd put Big George #2. He whooped Field to no credit with Big Dummy Bowe a de****able record and character.

[billeau2]

No worries... What attributes did you have in mind? I mean imo McCall and Ibeauchi while both having some extenuating circumstances were both supremely talented. A fighter like Rahman, meanwhile, would be a fighter who made the most out of relatively unimpressive natural abilities.

I would put Tim Witherspoon on any list, along with Tua as well.

[max baer]

Well I messed that up, not a great first pose. Was supposed to be asking for peoples Top 10.

Here's my personal list;

Lewis
Bowe
Holyfield
Tyson
Moorer
Foreman
McCall
Mercer
Morrison
Ibeabuchi

Gets quite tough toward the bottom, lot's of fighters could reasonably sit 8-10 I think.

very good list mate i would pick pretty much the same and i would definitely have lewis top. many here don't agree but i def make him top as he fought everyone nearly and won cept for two lucky punches. like your name he was rocky's first opponent!!!

[IronDanHamza]

Good list.

I’d have Holyfield above Bowe despite the 2 loss’s to him.

[Willow The Wisp]

Good list. I Agree with Iron Dan as well.

[Marchegiano]

Respectable list. Might sound like a troll but I do honestly respect Butterbean as a highlight of the 90s.

I'll pop one up but straight away I realized I need to get my timing right. I was gonna have Spinks but Spinks is an 80s guy. I got a torn rotator so gonna take my time.

[Anthony342]

Well I messed that up, not a great first pose. Was supposed to be asking for peoples Top 10.

Here's my personal list;

Lewis
Bowe
Holyfield
Tyson
Moorer
Foreman
McCall
Mercer
Morrison
Ibeabuchi

Gets quite tough toward the bottom, lot's of fighters could reasonably sit 8-10 I think.

Loved your fight with Rocky, even though there was some fouling towards the end.

[Willow The Wisp]

90's ya, I may get to that.
But....just checking here....

We DO know that the Character Spider Rico, who appears on Rocky films in 1976 and 2006 was played by slender 6'3" Argentinian heavyweight contender Pedro Lovell, right?

And we know, of course, that Lovell was a top 10 ranked contender (16-1-1 w/ 14 KOs) by the Ring Magazine for several months during 75' (the Ring's ratings philosophy was to advance the rankings of younger fighters, occasionally before they were fully proven, sometimes resulting in embarrassment, alongside the more vetted style ratings published in Lew Eskin's Boxing Illustrated and the Victory Sports Series/Stanley Weston monthlies of the time).
Lovell had upset big Texas GWH Terry Krueger in a return match after Kruger had stopped Pedro 3 months prior.
The ranking landed Pedro a shot at elite contender Ken Norton in January 76' in a nationally televised fight.

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Pedro Lovell (b.1945 and still alive and well) came from a famous boxing family in Buenos Aires. His father was Alberto Santiago Lovell (b.1913), who won the gold medal in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1932. In his career as a professional, he had 88 fights winning 76, (55 by KO) losing 8 (2 by KO) with 3 draws, he won both the Argentine and South American championships and was one of the top heavyweights of the red hot Latin American scene during that decade. Alberto's brother, Guillermo Lovell (b.1918), was another Argentine heavyweight boxer. He competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and won a silver medal.

Pedro actually landed on the cover of The Ring, April 1976 issue, being punched by Norton.

In "Rocky Balboa" (2006), Lovell appears to be pretty skinny compared to his fighting days 30 years before.