Top 10 Light-Heavies from best to worst

[StarshipTrooper]

I'll start the show:

01. Ezzard Charles
02. Archie Moore
03. Gene Tunney
04. Bob Foster
05. Michael Spinks
06. Roy Jones Jr.
07. Billy Conn
08. John Henry Lewis
09. Tommy Loughran
10. Tommy Gibbons


Bonus:

11. Maxie Rosenbloom
12. Mauro Mina
13. Jack Dillon
14. Young Stribling

Poet

[Joey Giardello]

I'll start the show:

01. Ezzard Charles
02. Archie Moore
03. Gene Tunney
04. Bob Foster
05. Michael Spinks
06. Roy Jones Jr.
07. Billy Conn
08. John Henry Lewis
09. Tommy Loughran
10. Tommy Gibbons


Bonus:

11. Maxie Rosenbloom
12. Mauro Mina
13. Jack Dillon
14. Young Stribling

Poet

1 Michael Spinks
2 Ezzard Charles
3 Archie Moore
4 Tommy Loughran
5 Bob Foster
6 Roy Jones
7 Gene Tunney
8 Maxie Rosenbloom
9 Billy Conn
10 Mathew Saad Muhammed

[sonnyboyx2]

1., Ezzard Charles
2/. Archie Moore
3/. Michael Spinks
4/. Billy Conn
5/. Bob Foster
6/. Michael Moorer
7/. Roy Jones
8/. Tommy Loughran
9/. Jimmy Bivens
10/. Harold Johnson

[boxingbuff]

1., Ezzard Charles
2/. Archie Moore
3/. Michael Spinks
4/. Billy Conn
5/. Bob Foster
6/. Michael Moorer
7/. Roy Jones
8/. Tommy Loughran
9/. Jimmy Bivens
10/. Harold Johnson

You don't rank Gene Tunney in your top 10?

[boxingbuff]

I'll start the show:

01. Ezzard Charles
02. Archie Moore
03. Gene Tunney
04. Bob Foster
05. Michael Spinks
06. Roy Jones Jr.
07. Billy Conn
08. John Henry Lewis
09. Tommy Loughran
10. Tommy Gibbons


Bonus:

11. Maxie Rosenbloom
12. Mauro Mina
13. Jack Dillon
14. Young Stribling

Poet

Nice list...I can't argue with those rankings.

I would only switch Tunney and Moore.

[sonnyboyx2]

Nice list...I can't argue with those rankings.

I would only switch Tunney and Moore.

address the topic and put up your choice in a list instead of knit-picking at other posters lists.

[mickey malone]

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Gene Tunney
3. Archie Moore
4. Michael Spinks
5. Billy Conn
6. Tommy Loughran
7. Michael Moorer
8. Bob Foster
9. Dwight Quawi
10. Harold Johnson

[sonnyboyx2]

i am quite surprised that i am the only one so far in this topic who rates Jimmy Bivens in his Top 10 ... Jimmy Bivens was an awesome boxer, any reason why you guys dont rate him?

[TheGreatA]

Surprised to see Moorer rated so highly. He didn't really accomplish all that much at 175 and was badly outboxed and outworked by Leslie Stewart, his best opponent, until finding the knockout punch. In my view he was probably not even the best of his era which included Virgil Hill, Charles Williams, Bobby Czyz, Eric Harding and Dennis Andries, although I admit he could have potentially beaten them all. The problem is that he didn't though.

[mickey malone]

i am quite surprised that i am the only one so far in this topic who rates Jimmy Bivens in his Top 10 ... Jimmy Bivens was an awesome boxer, any reason why you guys dont rate him?

Bloody good point as it goes.. His days at 175 get overlooked because he spent most of his career at HW, and he did have wins over Charles, Moore, Maxim, Lesnevich, Maurillo and Lloyd Marshall.. If i remember rightly, he had quite a few returns with both Moore and Charles, but lost them all.. Some of these may have been at HW though..