Top 25 Heavyweights (As of November, 2006)

[GunStar]

i think toney inshape would be unbeatable... when he was a middle weight he sparred with rid**** bowe and lance whitiker and both times they had to save there fighter from toney..hes a bad little muther ****er

I agree, if Toney is in shape I don't see him losing to any of these HW's today.

[Hitman932]

Well, you've succeeded in arousing my curiosity about Thompson. He's 35 though, so that can't help him in the long run...still, I want to see him now.

i dont believe thompson started boxing until he was 25 or 26. he really hasnt taken any of the punishment a fighter his age should have gone through by this point so i think of him as a young 35.

i should also note that for a guy as tall as he is he does a wonderful job of shortening his punches and fighting on the inside. he really killed guinns rhythmn by constantly touching him with punches, i guess it sounds weird to say but he was like a heavyweight kassim ouma

[!!Captain]

Brewster is the most overrated HW today, the guy got a gift win against the Garbage man from downunder who Rahman stopped within a few rounds. Also he lost to the glass chin Clifford Etiennem Brewster power and chin was always overrated.

Just watch Guinn against Sergie and you will see that Guinn is better then Brewster, also Guinn's chin is much better then Brewster's.

Yet Likahovich had a much harder fight against Brewster, who managed to knock him down in the process. By the way, what I love about Liakhovich is that he never lost his cool in a Brewster fight. He took the knee knowing exactly what he was doing, calculating to prevent further damage and survive the round. To his credit, those haymakers would have knocked down/out 9 out of 10 HW today.

[Hitman932]

i think toney inshape would be unbeatable...

i think an in shape toney would be a light heavyweight

[K-DOGG]

Yet Likahovich had a much harder fight against Brewster, who managed to knock him down in the process. By the way, what I love about Liakhovich is that he never lost his cool in a Brewster fight. He took the knee knowing exactly what he was doing, calculating to prevent further damage and survive the round. To his credit, those haymakers would have knocked down/out 9 out of 10 HW today.

I honestly can't think of one other current heavyweight contender who could have survived the assualt Brewster put on Liakhovich in the 5th round. No other fighter I can think of could have taken all of those clean shots from Brewster. I was in awe of that ****...still am.

[K-DOGG]

i dont believe thompson started boxing until he was 25 or 26. he really hasnt taken any of the punishment a fighter his age should have gone through by this point so i think of him as a young 35.

i should also note that for a guy as tall as he is he does a wonderful job of shortening his punches and fighting on the inside. he really killed guinns rhythmn by constantly touching him with punches, i guess it sounds weird to say but he was like a heavyweight kassim ouma

According to boxrec...and we know how reliable they are ....he's not scheduled to fight anyone at the moment. Any idea when he's fighting again?

[Hitman932]

Yet Likahovich had a much harder fight against Brewster, who managed to knock him down in the process. By the way, what I love about Liakhovich is that he never lost his cool in a Brewster fight. He took the knee knowing exactly what he was doing, calculating to prevent further damage and survive the round. To his credit, those haymakers would have knocked down/out 9 out of 10 HW today.

it was an incredibly smart move by him to take the knee.

he was winning the fight clearly up to that point and it was obvious around the 6th-7th round that brewster had a 2 or 3 round window to knock sergei out or he was going to lose.

brewster came right at him and sergei certainly took the best he had to offer on the ropes before he took the knee...

when he got up from the knockdown and made it through the round i think it had the same kind of negative impact of brewster that he gave to wlad when he got up in their fight... it seemed from the point that lyko got up that brewster pretty much packed it in.

[GunStar]

Yet Likahovich had a much harder fight against Brewster, who managed to knock him down in the process. By the way, what I love about Liakhovich is that he never lost his cool in a Brewster fight. He took the knee knowing exactly what he was doing, calculating to prevent further damage and survive the round. To his credit, those haymakers would have knocked down/out 9 out of 10 HW today.

Yea it was harder fight because he took some bombs from Brewster, White Wolf did show a good chin in the Brewster fight, but he really dominated Brewster it wasn't a close fight like the Guinn fight.

[Hitman932]

According to boxrec...and we know how reliable they are ....he's not scheduled to fight anyone at the moment. Any idea when he's fighting again?

i had just checked a few days ago and they had a fight listed for early december... go figure... hopefully its removed cause something bigger is in the works

[realheavyhands]

i think an in shape toney would be a light heavyweight

ok a healthy eating james toney in good heavyweight shape.. he would be about 215