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  • Welsh Jon
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    #1

    Top 15 Light-heavyweights

    I was bored so I made list:

    1. Ezzard Charles
    2. Gene Tunney
    3. Archie Moore
    4. Sam Langford
    5. Maxie Rosenbloom
    6. Michael Spinks
    7. Harry Greb
    8. Tommy Loughran
    9. Harold Johnson
    10. Bob Foster
    11. Jimmy Bivins
    12. Jack Delaney
    13. Matthew Saad Muhammad
    14. Billy Conn
    15. Roy Jones Jr.

    what do you guys reckon?
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    #2
    Originally posted by Welsh Jon
    I was bored so I made list:

    1. Ezzard Charles
    2. Gene Tunney
    3. Archie Moore
    4. Sam Langford
    5. Maxie Rosenbloom
    6. Michael Spinks
    7. Harry Greb
    8. Tommy Loughran
    9. Harold Johnson
    10. Bob Foster
    11. Jimmy Bivins
    12. Jack Delaney
    13. Matthew Saad Muhammad
    14. Billy Conn
    15. Roy Jones Jr.

    what do you guys reckon?
    Not bad, but I'd have Johnson at nr. 5.

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    • New England
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      #3
      Originally posted by Welsh Jon
      I was bored so I made list:

      1. Ezzard Charles
      2. Gene Tunney
      3. Archie Moore
      4. Sam Langford
      5. Maxie Rosenbloom
      6. Michael Spinks
      7. Harry Greb
      8. Tommy Loughran
      9. Harold Johnson
      10. Bob Foster
      11. Jimmy Bivins
      12. Jack Delaney
      13. Matthew Saad Muhammad
      14. Billy Conn
      15. Roy Jones Jr.

      what do you guys reckon?


      Resume?
      h2h?
      or "greatness?"

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      • McGoorty
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        #4
        Originally posted by Welsh Jon
        I was bored so I made list:

        1. Ezzard Charles
        2. Gene Tunney
        3. Archie Moore
        4. Sam Langford
        5. Maxie Rosenbloom
        6. Michael Spinks
        7. Harry Greb
        8. Tommy Loughran
        9. Harold Johnson
        10. Bob Foster
        11. Jimmy Bivins
        12. Jack Delaney
        13. Matthew Saad Muhammad
        14. Billy Conn
        15. Roy Jones Jr.

        what do you guys reckon?
        That's wrong...... here's mine... I've got my #1 sorted but I'll put some more names up in no particular order....... #1. JOE CALZAGHE. then in no order,.... NICK PIPER... NATHAN KING... NICK FISHER... NOEL TRIGG.... RANDY JONES.... NATHAN CLEVERLY (maybe my #2.).......... REDVERS SANGOE ...... ROBERT PEEL (wasn't he a Prime Minister ? )..... WAYNE BROOKS...... I reckon I can't name any more because it's them and then daylight.

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        • Welsh Jon
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          #5
          Originally posted by New England
          Resume?
          h2h?
          or "greatness?"
          Resume mostly

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          • Welsh Jon
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            #6
            Originally posted by McGoorty
            That's wrong...... here's mine... I've got my #1 sorted but I'll put some more names up in no particular order....... #1. JOE CALZAGHE. then in no order,.... NICK PIPER... NATHAN KING... NICK FISHER... NOEL TRIGG.... RANDY JONES.... NATHAN CLEVERLY (maybe my #2.).......... REDVERS SANGOE ...... ROBERT PEEL (wasn't he a Prime Minister ? )..... WAYNE BROOKS...... I reckon I can't name any more because it's them and then daylight.
            Oh man, please don't draw me into another Calzaghe debate!

            Also you're list seems to be missing Jack Petersen.

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            • NChristo
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              #7
              I like it, would have Billy Conn in top 10 but can't please everyone.

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              • McGoorty
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                #8
                Originally posted by Welsh Jon
                Oh man, please don't draw me into another Calzaghe debate!

                Also you're list seems to be missing Jack Petersen.
                Oh man I had trouble finding some of those names, I kept trying to type in the right thing to get results...... for some reason every time I typed in the obvious word,.......... I kept getting directed to sites about confectionary, I didn't want any lollies......

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                • Greatest1942
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Welsh Jon
                  I was bored so I made list:

                  1. Ezzard Charles
                  2. Gene Tunney
                  3. Archie Moore
                  4. Sam Langford
                  5. Maxie Rosenbloom
                  6. Michael Spinks
                  7. Harry Greb
                  8. Tommy Loughran
                  9. Harold Johnson
                  10. Bob Foster
                  11. Jimmy Bivins
                  12. Jack Delaney
                  13. Matthew Saad Muhammad
                  14. Billy Conn
                  15. Roy Jones Jr.

                  what do you guys reckon?
                  Harry Greb in top 10 is a breath of fresh air.
                  But I would have liked it more Conn was in top 10. But lists are always subjective.

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                  • McGoorty
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Greatest1942
                    Harry Greb in top 10 is a breath of fresh air.
                    But I would have liked it more Conn was in top 10. But lists are always subjective.
                    What About Harry ?......... an Alfred Hitch**** Movie

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