Top 5 Best Heavyweights

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  • LoadedWraps
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    #31
    Originally posted by Morton Belgram
    Who are the top 5 best heavyweights of all time, head-to-head?

    I would say something like...

    1: Lennox Lewis
    2: Vitali Klitschko
    3: Wladimir Klitschko
    4: Tyson Fury
    5: Anthony Joshua

    These guys are just so big and well-balanced, it really has to be between them. While I respect old legends like Joe Frazier, then let's be honest, they wouldn't even be able to beat good-but-not-great modern fighters like Joseph Parker. It's completely new times. Bigger and technically better fighters at play.
    Fury
    Marciano
    Ali
    Lewis
    Johnson

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    • LoadedWraps
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      #32
      Originally posted by Morton Belgram
      Yeah. The boxers are bigger and better now. No reason to look into ancient times. Every sport in the world is evolving, you have to be naive to think that boxing is somehow the only sport in the world that is not evolving...

      It isn't evolving like other sports. You're very ignorant to the history of boxing.

      Progress in nutrition and health and the human body, yes. Much boxing knowledge has been lost to history and the average fighter is less skilled and conditioned than in the golden eras.

      Fighters now (HWs) are bigger but that doesn't mean better. Remove Fury and Usyk and Ortiz from the HW landscape and it becomes very ordinary. There are exciting guys like Wilder, but no one outside Fury presents something "never seen", one could argue.

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      • jabbbbb
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        #33
        Best heavyweights would at least be above 210. Some crude flat footed light heavyweights like rocky marciano or jack dempesy joe Louis certainly not in the discussion.
        Last edited by jabbbbb; 12-25-2020, 05:18 PM.

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