Which ACTIVE HW has currently the Best Resume?

[beezy 14]

I agree with Raessad, technically Holyfield is still active so it would have to be him. And if Bowe is fighting which I heard he is in Oregon I think then he would be up there to since he did beat Holyfield and several other big names.

[UnderControl-]

Holyfield, Brewster and Ruiz.

[THE REAL NINJA]

yup Ruiz has lost to better fighters then most of the rest have fought .You cant over look Rahman he has fought Holyfield, Lewis,Ruiz,Toney,Tua,etc he has some great names on his record.Byrd was ahead but fell off the last few years by only fighting the weaker side of the div..Toney is tops over all just by lenth of time he has been fighting alone...Ruiz also has good names but few wins with the main names on his record....holy ect are unactive and i do not count

[Hitman932]

clearly wlad klitschko has the most impressive resume overall

here are some stats:

combined records of last 10 opponents...

wlad klitschko 297-20-6 (92.9%)

lamon brewster 252-50-8 (82.6%)

hasim rahman 391-63-10 (85.3) wins over toney 69-4 and calloway 47-4 pad these totals for rahman. if you didnt count those two the record of his last 8 opponents would be 275-55-7 (82.6%) equal to bresters total

if you want to talk about james toney take into consideration the following FACT. from 1997-2002 he oufhg the following guys in this order.

1. steve little 2. terry porter 3. adolpho washington 4. ramon garbey
5. terry mcgroom 6. courtney butler 7. saul montana 8 wesley martin
9. sione aspeli 10. michael rush 11. jason robinson.

even if you tried there is no way a good fighter should be able to fight this many ****ty opponents in a row.

[UnderControl-]

Combined records and the likes can fool you often. If Klitschko has the best resume ... what about Brewster who has a win over him?

[THE REAL NINJA]

yeah, yeah, yeah, and there are guys with combined records like that that never fought anybody

[neils7147933]

Holyfield hasn't announced his retirement yet
Toney has a good non-heavyweight resume

It's all how you define best resume I think

Do really good wins count more than a loss to someone good? Does a really bad loss damage a resume more than a few average wins?

My first thoughts were Wlad and Ruiz, and I'm not going to go through and analyze boxrec to back them up.

It's interesting though, too, because I thought Wlad and Ruiz, at least prior to the Valuev fight and currently with Klitschko, they're considered among the best in the division, but it's a situation where if I had to rank the top heavyweights, I wouldn't necessarily favor someone over another in a fight just because they were ranked higher. With Wlad and Ruiz, there are liabilities that make it hard to predict future title fights.

Liakhovich, Peter, Brock, and Valuev have the fewest losses among Top 20 guys, but are missing multiple quality wins....

[UnderControl-]

yeah, yeah, yeah, and there are guys with combined records like that that never fought anybody

Don Steele for instance had over 40 wins with no loss, then he was stopped in 2 by Brian Nielson.

[THE REAL NINJA]

"It's all how you define best resume I think

Do really good wins count more than a loss to someone good? Does a really bad loss damage a resume more than a few average wins?"
opponents over all is what i'm going by. win or lose

[Hous]

I dont think they are concidering percentage of wins.

If you only look at who they fought Rahman takes the honor, just to bad he lost to all of the big names, and at most got a draw.

Hes has Lewis X 2(W/L), Holyfeild (L), Tua (D), Toney (D), Ruiz (L), and of cource Maskeav (L). He beat Collaway, Sanders, Barret, and as I said earlier an old Lewis who came back and whooped his ass.

I dont understand why people hype this guy. Even his biggest win was luck over Lewis...