Who's the greatest white heavyweight boxer of all time?

[mr. bojangles]

Gerry Cooney was a fighter with great potential, who lost the desire after losing to Larry Holmes, a true underachiever. Quarry was a very talented fighter who never seemed to train himself into top physical condition, which played a big part in his failure to ever become Champ, along with his tendency to cut. Max Baer and Ingamar Johannson were both pretty good fighters who were both Champs at one point in their careers, along with Schmeling. And of course, the rock tops them all lol.

I grew up watching Gerry Cooney knock out his opponents with his trademark devastating left hook to the liver. If you have a video of the Ron Lyle bout, you know what I'm talking about. He's big, powerful and seemed to be a low-profile, humble person. The media drew parallels with him and Rocky Balboa, the Rocky movies was the 'in' thing in Hollywood back then. Cooney even used the Rocky movie soundtrack as his ring entrance towards the Larry Holmes fight. Larry spoiled the party and shattered what became infamously known as The Great White Hype!

Jerry Quarry was good, but Joe Frazier was simply too strong and Muhammad Ali was simply much, much better...he was in the wrong generation.


Rocky Marciano is the greatest white heavyweight boxer IMO.

[CoLd_WaVE]

the Rock..... 49-0

[GranTorino]

the Rock..... 49-0

Plain and simple.

[hemichromis]

of all time its probably demspey

[lazyitis]

It's Jack Dempsey. Best honky heavyweight ever.

[The Raging Bull]

Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano are the two greatest white heavyweights ever. No-one comes close to them.

[K-DOGG]

Modern era....Gene Tunney....or Dempsey.

[Oasis_Lad]

marciano
dempsey
tunney

[micky_knox]

rocky marcianao or jack dempsey or gene tunney

although i put the rock top of the pile

[xAUGUSTUSx]

Rocky 3 was on last night, he beat Hulk Hogan up and then Mr T He was good

Thats what legends do. Who else could work over Mr.T and the Hulkster in 2 hours. He's on a comeback we'll see him fight in December. He's a legend but he better watch out because he is fighting the legend killer. LOL Hey hey Rocco