How do you rank these Heavyweight resumes?????

**4Corners** · 03-12-2012, 03:07 PM

Ali, Louis, and Johnson are the Top 3 easily in my opinion.

It gets tough after that for me. Bowe, Holyfield, Foreman, Frazier, Liston, Marciano, and Dempsey are all really close. Marciano would be higher, but his big wins were against really aging great HW's like Louis, Charles, and Walcott.

After those, it's really close between Patterson, Holmes, Tyson, Lewis, Vitali, and Wlad to me as well. Lennox would be higher but his biggest wins were also against really aging fighters in Holyfield and Tyson.

**edgarg** · 03-12-2012, 05:28 PM

Originally posted by 4CornersKid

How do you rank these Heavyweight resumes?????

Jack Johnson: George Gardiner, Sam McVey, Sandy Ferguson, Sam Langford, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tommy Burns, Stanely Ketchel, James Jeffries, and Frank Moran.

Jack Dempsey: Bill Brennan, Battling Levinsky, Billy Miske, Jess Willard, Georges Carpentier, Tommy Gibbons, and Jack Sharkey.

Joe Louis: Primo Carnera, Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Tommy Farr, Max Schmeling, John Henry Lewis, Tony Galento, Arturo Godoy, Buddy Baer, Billy Conn, Joe Walcott, and Lee Savold.

Rocky Marciano: Ted Lowry, Ronald La Starza, Lee Savold, Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Don ****ell, and Archie Moore.

Floyd Patterson: Tommy Jackson, Archie Moore, Roy Harris, Ingemar Johansson, Tom McNeeley, Eddie Machen, George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, and Oscar Bonavena.

Sonny Liston: Cleveland Williams, Roy Harris, Zora Folley, Eddie Machen, and Floyd Patterson.

Muhammad Ali: Archie Moore, Henry Cooper, Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, George Chuvalo, Karl Mildenberger, Cleveland Williams, Ernie Terrell, Zora Folley, Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, Mac Foster, Bob Foster, Joe Bugner, Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ron Lyle, Jimmy Young, and Earnie Shavers.

Joe Frazier: Oscar Bonavena, Eddie Machen, George Chuvalo, Jerry Quarry, Jimmy Ellis, Bob Foster, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Bugner.

George Foreman: Gregorio Peralta, George Chuvalo, Boone Kirkman, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Michael Moorer, and Lou Savarese.

Larry Holmes: Earnie Shavers, Ken Norton, Alfredo Evangelista, Ossie Ocasio, Leroy Jones, Muhammad Ali*, Trevor Berbick, Renaldo Snipes, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Scott Frank, David Bey, Carl Williams, and Ray Mercer.

Mike Tyson: Trevor Berbick, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, Carl Williams, Donovan Ruddock, Peter McNeeley, Buster Mathis Jr, Bruce Seldon, Francois Botha, and Lou Savarese.

Evander Holfyield: Alex Stewart, Buster Douglas, George Foreman*, Larry Holmes*, Rid**** Bowe, Ray Mercer, Mike Tyson, Michael Moorer, Vaughn Bean, John Ruiz, and Hasim Rahman.

Rid**** Bowe: Tony Tubbs, Bruce Seldon, Pierre Coetzer, Evander Holyfield, Michael Dokes, Larry Donald, Herbie Hide, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, and Andrew Golota.

Lennox Lewis: Gary Mason, Tony Tucker, Frank Bruno, Phil Jackson, Tommy Morrison, Ray Mercer, Oliver McCall, Henry Akinwande, Andrew Golota, Shannon Briggs, Zeljko Mavrovic, Evander Holyfield, Michael Grant, Francois Botha, David Tua, Hasim Rahman, Mike Tyson, and Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali Klitschko: ****y Ryan, Herbie Hide, Ed Mahone, Timo Hoffman, Vaughn Bean, Larry Donald, Kirk Johnson, Corrie Sanders, Samuel Peter, Juan Carlos Gomez, Chris Arreola, Kevin Johnson, Shannon Briggs, Odlanier Solis, Tomasz Adamek, and Dereck Chisora.

Wladimir Klitschko: David Bostice, Monte Barrett, Chris Byrd, Francois Botha, Ray Mercer, Jameel McCline, Samuel Peter, Calvin Brock, Lamon Brewster, Sultan Ibragimov, Tony Thompson, Hasim Rahman, Ruslan Chagaev, Eddie Chambers, and David Haye.

How do you rank each guys notable resume????

Impossible to say. You ask for resume comparisons but you don't have the resumes. For instance, according to your list Ali fought Patterson, but Patterson didn't fight Ali. In other words, (except where there were the very occasional return with a different result) you only have notable wins, not resumes.

**Tiozzo** · 03-12-2012, 06:14 PM

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Johnson
4. Holyfield
5. Frazier
6. Holmes
7. Lewis
8. Marciano
9. Foreman
10. Liston
11. Tyson
12. Patterson
13. Dempsey
14. W. Klitschko
15. Bowe
16. Vitali K.

I rated their best wins as proposed by TS, and I didn't use any other criteria.

**4Corners** · 03-12-2012, 10:47 PM

Originally posted by edgarg

Impossible to say. You ask for resume comparisons but you don't have the resumes. For instance, according to your list Ali fought Patterson, but Patterson didn't fight Ali. In other words, (except where there were the very occasional return with a different result) you only have notable wins, not resumes.

It's who they won against, not who they lost against.......Resume=wins. Patterson doesn't get credit for losing to Ali.....

**Larry the boss** · 03-12-2012, 10:51 PM

shouldve posted in the history sections 90 percent here have no idea who the people on that resume is

**DeadLikeMe** · 03-12-2012, 11:46 PM

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Johnson
4. Marciano
5. Frazier
6. Holyfield
7. Foreman
8. Holmes
9. Tyson
10. Lewis
11. Liston
12. Patterson
13. Dempsey
14. Bowe
15. W. Klitschko
16. Vitali K.

How do you rank these Heavyweight resumes?????