Worst ever heavyweight champion

[Southpaw16BF]

[Flab]

Muhammad Ali.

[Edward Hitler]

Trevor Berbick.. he look like a scared child when he faught tyson and faught like one 2

[smirf123]

any of these

Frank Bruno
Bruce Seldon
Trevor Berbick

agree.....

[DarchinyFAN]

It made it to the end and no one mentioned James "Bonecrusher" Smith.

Whats my prize?

[elfag]

I agree on the right place, right time. How many other guys would have beaten Ali on that night? Ali was starting to have parkisons symptoms by that time.

Also the likes of Valuev, Ruiz were never linear champions just belt holders. If you include worst ever belt holders then the list gets considerably larger and more complex.

[elfag]

Bruce Seldon was probably the very worst.

Leon Spinks
Hasim Rahman
Shannon Briggs
Herbie Hide
Michael Bentt
Buster Douglas
Trevor Berbick
Sergei Lyakhovich
Michael Moorer
Nicolay Valuev
Henry Akinwande

were all very bad too.

You have a damn good point about Shannon Briggs, he won his linear title from a gift decision over a 46 or so year old Foreman and gets KOed in his next fight.

Gets title from gift decision, zero defenses, KOed next fight. That has got to be the worse.

Atleast the likes of Rahman and Carnera won their titles with KO wins.

[StarshipTrooper]

I base my picks on ability alone and by that standard I think Primo Carnera and Jess Willard really stand out as the most lacking. I have to give both credit, especially Primo, for courage in the ring.

Poet

[Gojira]

David haye-Only fought once, and got floored, against a shot monte barrett.

[cassiusthegreat]

Nikolai Valuev.Can we please stop arguing this? you can bring up all the stats you want but we all know it's valuev