Post the greatest Runs in HW history

[chrisJS]

Run of what? Competition? Title reign? Wins?

Joe Louis had the best reign. 12 years and 25 defenses. Revenge win over Schmeling, a pair of wins over the great Billy Conn, a pair of wins over Walcott (one controversial, one clear), some other good fighters but a large number of bum (bum of the month club).

Marciano's reign may have been short but two wins over Walcott, two over Charles, a KO of reigning 175 champion in the legendary Archie Moore is excellent too. People **** on his resume but a lof of modern fans like to give credit just for getting names (i.e Mayweather has Pacquaio, De La Hoya, Mosley , Canelo has Mosley, Cotto etc but those names are even better.

As a fan who grew up in the 90's I think Holyfield fought a great run.

Douglas for the undisputed
Foreman (who proved he had a lot in the tank)
Cooper
Holmes
Bowe I & II
Moorer I & II
Mercer
Tyson I & II

That was quite a run and IMO Holyfield has now became underrated as a Heavyweight great because he didn't have a dominant reign like Lewis, Klitshcko or even Tyson. He accomplished more IMO.
Lewis I & II.

Ali's run of competition post his ban was incredible and added to his unbelievable displays in his first reign probably the reason why he's no worse than 1b in the divisions history.

[iamboxing]

Ali’s resume is by far the best out of all the HW’s
Wins over legends like...
Liston x2
Frazier x2
Foreman
Norton x2
Patterson x2
Foster
Moore
And then other top wins over guys like...
Folley
Shavers
Bunger x2
Lyle
Quarry x2
Ellis
Terrell
Cooper x2
Williams
Spinks.

I agree 100%. I can't think of any other fighter who had to deal with so many elite opponents including 1 punch KO monsters like Liston, Foreman and Shavers.

[mlac]

I agree 100%. I can't think of any other fighter who had to deal with so many elite opponents including 1 punch KO monsters like Liston, Foreman and Shavers.

he misunderstood the thread lol.

Run of what? Competition? Title reign? Wins?

Joe Louis had the best reign. 12 years and 25 defenses. Revenge win over Schmeling, a pair of wins over the great Billy Conn, a pair of wins over Walcott (one controversial, one clear), some other good fighters but a large number of bum (bum of the month club).

Marciano's reign may have been short but two wins over Walcott, two over Charles, a KO of reigning 175 champion in the legendary Archie Moore is excellent too. People **** on his resume but a lof of modern fans like to give credit just for getting names (i.e Mayweather has Pacquaio, De La Hoya, Mosley , Canelo has Mosley, Cotto etc but those names are even better.

As a fan who grew up in the 90's I think Holyfield fought a great run.

Douglas for the undisputed
Foreman (who proved he had a lot in the tank)
Cooper
Holmes
Bowe I & II
Moorer I & II
Mercer
Tyson I & II

That was quite a run and IMO Holyfield has now became underrated as a Heavyweight great because he didn't have a dominant reign like Lewis, Klitshcko or even Tyson. He accomplished more IMO.
Lewis I & II.

Ali's run of competition post his ban was incredible and added to his unbelievable displays in his first reign probably the reason why he's no worse than 1b in the divisions history.

Run of wins against good competition before losing yea, disagree with Louis and Marciano having a great run, especially the former, name wise for rocky? yeah but we all know the names he faced were all ancient.

holyfields greatest run was probobly a run of 3, tyson x2 then moorer?

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I agree 100%. I can't think of any other fighter who had to deal with so many elite opponents including 1 punch KO monsters like Liston, Foreman and Shavers.

Yeah especially considering he was past his best when he beat a lot of those top guys including Foreman, Frazier, Shavers etc.
I think it will be impossible for any HW to surpass Ali because the division was so deep during the 60’s and 70’s and Ali essentially beat every top HW of that era.

[Nay_Sayer]

this has to be up there surely?:

Tommy Morrison
Ray Mercer
Oliver McCall
Henry Akinwande
Andrew Golota
Shannon Briggs
Zeljko Mavrovic
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
Michael Grant
Frans Botha
David Tua

WTF?

Have you never heard of guys named Louis, Ali, Holmes, Tyson or Lewis?

[Nay_Sayer]

Marciano. Retired undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champ.

/thread

Beat nobody in 49 fights...

[mlac]

WTF?

Have you never heard of guys named Louis, Ali, Holmes, Tyson or Lewis?

post their run of 12 wins against good competition then

[famicommander]

Beat nobody in 49 fights...

Jersey Joe Walcott twice
Ezzard Charles twice
Roland La Starza twice
Archie Moore
Joe Louis (I know he was shot)

[Thraxox]

George Foreman at 45 years oldmlm

[chrisJS]

he misunderstood the thread lol.





Run of wins against good competition before losing yea, disagree with Louis and Marciano having a great run, especially the former, name wise for rocky? yeah but we all know the names he faced were all ancient.

holyfields greatest run was probobly a run of 3, tyson x2 then moorer?

Walcott was a great fighter later in his career. He was reigning champion. Charles was still a good fighter at that point too though not prime and like I said Moore was still in the middle of his all-time run. Yes he was old but was still great.

All three of those were less past their primes than say Tyson was for Lewis. Maybe they were more like where Holyfield was in the Lewis fights. At least Walcott and Charles.