Enclosed are my top 15 ranked heavyweights by 20-year intervals. The criteria for the

[billeau2]

Nice to see you outside of the lounge. lol. Nice avy also!

I had to drop a few avatar pics before I would post. After fighting in the pits you have to clean up and come right...

Amen!

[travestyny]

I had to drop a few avatar pics before I would post. After fighting in the pits you have to clean up and come right...

Amen!

lol. I'm trying my best to avoid posting in that section. I do visit every now and then for a laugh. Otherwise...just can't do it anymore.

[JAB5239]

The bizarre thing is, that when he's presented with FACTUAL information (like Foreman and Holmes being ranked at the same time)... he responds with childish, personal attacks.

It makes me wonder, if he's actually being serious... or he's really just laughing his a** off, while trolling us?

He's a cancer to forums like this. When you don't agree with him it's personal to him. When you contradict him with facts, it's personal to him. You're right about him attacking an insulting nearly every person he converses with. And on top of that he flat out lies. For the love of God, when you're wrong you're wrong. We all have been and we all will be again at some point. Have a little dignity and self respect though instead of trying to save face with bogus information. I'd expect that from a five year old, not a grown man.

[Dr. Z]

No, the 76 ratings were not chosen in March 77 - they appeared in the March issue, but were of course chosen at the end of the previous year. Hence the "Annual Ratings".

Same deal with the 94 rankings, picked at the end of that year - but didn't appear in The Ring until the April 95 issue.

Correct. Ring Magazine annual ratings, 1976, issued in March 1977. A very talented year.

Muhammad Ali, Champion

George Foreman
Ken Norton
Jimmy Young
Duane Bobick
Ron Lyle
Larry Holmes
Howard Smith
Johnny Boudreaux
Stan Ward
Joe Bugner

[Marchegiano]

What was Godfreys story, I haven't heard about him.........Rockin'

Gimme a while to get it done and I'll scan the sundowners section on him.

In a nutshell a very good black fighter who did a lot of favors through his career because he'd given up on a black man being allowed to fight for anything meaningful. He'd go to Europe where he made good ranking and was even champion.

Mostly, Godfrey liked to DQ himself out, however, because it was known he'd do that for a fix it's thought sometimes he did it even when the fix wasn't in because he just wanted a way out, winning or losing.

He said his Primo fight was fixed, his manager claimed it as well, and Primo's as well. Since learning and speaking to it I have been told the Primo team member was jilted and untrustworthy. Either way, before the DQ he was on his way to a W.

[Rockin']

Gimme a while to get it done and I'll scan the sundowners section on him.

In a nutshell a very good black fighter who did a lot of favors through his career because he'd given up on a black man being allowed to fight for anything meaningful. He'd go to Europe where he made good ranking and was even champion.

Mostly, Godfrey liked to DQ himself out, however, because it was known he'd do that for a fix it's thought sometimes he did it even when the fix wasn't in because he just wanted a way out, winning or losing.

He said his Primo fight was fixed, his manager claimed it as well, and Primo's as well. Since learning and speaking to it I have been told the Primo team member was jilted and untrustworthy. Either way, before the DQ he was on his way to a W.

The Ambling Alp...... Godfrey probably could have kicked his ass.... but I'm sure that you know that story too (it's a deep one). Thank you for taking the time, I do enjoy reading your posts........Rockin'

[QueensburyRules]

Back then it took forever to put the magazine together - after which it was sent out to subscribers and distribuated to newsstands.

So by the time you got your hands on the latest edition, you could read about things that had taken place a couple of months before.

Also, let's say a magazine hit the newsstands in late January. They would likely label that the March or April issue... so fans would be convinced, this was the absolutely newest issue.

So if their annual rankings were published in such an issue, it wasn't supposed to show how things stood in April, or even in March - as those months had not happened yet!

- -I'm not in speculation over the incompetency of Ring, that's why I no longer see Ring in libraries and mag racks and the reason Oscar bought it back from the walking dead not they are the go to guys in all of boxing.

Nat died coming up on 50 years soon enough. What I said still goes and I posted a Ring link for starters proving it.

No amount of equivocation by the usual slurpies can budge it.

[QueensburyRules]

Gimme a while to get it done and I'll scan the sundowners section on him.

In a nutshell a very good black fighter who did a lot of favors through his career because he'd given up on a black man being allowed to fight for anything meaningful. He'd go to Europe where he made good ranking and was even champion.

Mostly, Godfrey liked to DQ himself out, however, because it was known he'd do that for a fix it's thought sometimes he did it even when the fix wasn't in because he just wanted a way out, winning or losing.

He said his Primo fight was fixed, his manager claimed it as well, and Primo's as well. Since learning and speaking to it I have been told the Primo team member was jilted and untrustworthy. Either way, before the DQ he was on his way to a W.

- -Primo outboxing, Godfrey throwing the book of fouls. Not Primo's fault.

Sam Langford KOed him. Was that rigged also? See TBE TUE.

[QueensburyRules]

The bizarre thing is, that when he's presented with FACTUAL information (like Foreman and Holmes being ranked at the same time)... he responds with childish, personal attacks.

It makes me wonder, if he's actually being serious... or he's really just laughing his a** off, while trolling us?

- -U equivocating facts ain't factual.

https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/T..._Ratings:_1976

[JAB5239]

- -I'm not in speculation over the incompetency of Ring, that's why I no longer see Ring in libraries and mag racks and the reason Oscar bought it back from the walking dead not they are the go to guys in all of boxing.

Nat died coming up on 50 years soon enough. What I said still goes and I posted a Ring link for starters proving it.

No amount of equivocation by the usual slurpies can budge it.

Stop trying to take away from the FACT you falsely claimed George and Larry were never ranked at the same time. No amount of blabbering gibberish is going to change that. Nothing else matters except the fact they were indeed ranked in the top 10 together, at the same time, after you wrongly claimed something yet again. Get over yourself, ya old rummy.