The best heavyweight champions through decades

[Duch]

How would look like your list of the best heavyweight champions according to decades?

1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-today

What is the best heavyweight champion in concrete decade (12 champions)?

I wonder if there would be some different choices between a lot of people and how much of them.

You can add XIXth century if you want.

[Ezzard]

1900-1909 - Jeffries
1910-1919 - Johnson
1920-1929 - Dempsey
1930-1939 - Louis
1940-1949 - Louis
1950-1959 - Marciano
1960-1969 - Ali
1970-1979 - Ali
1980-1989 - Holmes
1990-1999 - Holyfield
2000-2009 - Vitali
2010-today - Wlad

The time lines screw it up for Frazier. Lewis is close to Holyfield.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

I'd still take Lewis from 2000-2009, that's how weak Vitali's resume is.

[Heartbreak_Kid79]

1900-1909 - Jack Johnson
1910-1919 - Jack Johnson
1920-1929 - Jack Dempsey
1930-1939 - Joe Louis
1940-1949 - Joe Louis
1950-1959 - Rocky Marciano
1960-1969 - Muhammad Ali
1970-1979 - Muhammad Ali
1980-1989 - Mike Tyson (at his peak)
1990-1999 - Lennox Lewis
2000-2009 - Vitali Klitshcko
2010-today -Wladimir Klitshcko

[Ezzard]

HK79, we're counting them all at their peak...

[Duch]

How would look like your list of the best heavyweight champions according to decades?

1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969 > Joe Frazier
1970-1979 > Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-today

What is the best heavyweight champion in concrete decade (12 champions)?

I wonder if there would be some different choices between a lot of people and how much of them.

You can add XIXth century if you want.

Really?
You don't write who are the champions of other decades? You just want to emphasize again that Ali means nothing to you?

[SaadOffTheDeck]

HK79, we're counting them all at their peak...

Oh, then I'll take Frazier from 60-69.

[yancey]

HK79, we're counting them all at their peak...

Oh, then I'll take Frazier from 60-69.

I agree, since we're basing it on peak for each decade.

[cfang]

If this doesn't refute Duce's preposterous post I don't know what does.

Top wins in the the 70s

Frazier = Foster, Ali, Bugner, Quarry
Holmes = Shavers x2, Weaver, Norton

Ali = Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier x2, Chuvalo, Bugner x2, Norton x2, Frazier x2, Foreman, Patterson, Lyle, Young, Shavers.

.. and after 3 and a half years off!

[cfang]

oh and

1900-1909 - Jack Johnson
1910-1919 - Jack Johnson
1920-1929 - Jack Dempsey
1930-1939 - Joe Louis
1940-1949 - Joe Louis
1950-1959 - Rocky Marciano
1960-1969 - Muhammad Ali
1970-1979 - Muhammad Ali
1980-1989 - Larry Holmes
1990-1999 - Lennox Lewis
2000-2009 - Vitali Klitshcko
2010-today -Wladimir Klitshcko

[gilgamesh]

If this doesn't refute Duce's preposterous post I don't know what does.

Top wins in the the 70s

Frazier = Foster, Ali, Bugner, Quarry
Holmes = Shavers x2, Weaver, Norton

Ali = Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier x2, Chuvalo, Bugner x2, Norton x2, Frazier x2, Foreman, Patterson, Lyle, Young, Shavers.

.. and after 3 and a half years off!

You mentioned Frazier x2, x2

[cfang]

Oh so I did. I needed to add foster to Ali's list of victims too!

[SaadOffTheDeck]

It depends on the criteria. Ali has the resume, but at their peaks Joe was the better fighter in the 60's for me.

[dr_devious]

1900-1909 - Jeffries
1910-1919 - Johnson
1920-1929 - Dempsey
1930-1939 - Louis
1940-1949 - Louis
1950-1959 - Marciano
1960-1969 - Ali
1970-1979 - Ali
1980-1989 - Holmes
1990-1999 - Holyfield
2000-2009 - Lewis
2010-today - Vlad

[Bobbyptsd]

I think it's hilarious that some people are actually placing Vitali for 2000-2009

He fought 14 times in that span, lost to Byrd and Lewis. His best wins in that span are probably Peter, Sanders........uhhhh.......Larry Donald? Danny Williams?

Lewis fought 7 times, lost to Rahman and his best wins are probably Tua, Tyson, Rahman in the rematch not to mention....well.....Vitali Klitschko.

I can totally get people deciding to put Holyfield over Lewis for the 90's, but even though he only fought for three years into the decade, I have a very hard time placing Vitali over Lewis for the 2000's as a whole. Just in those three years, Lewis' level of opposition and wins dwarfs Klitschko's in my view.

[BoxBuzz]

If this doesn't refute Duce's preposterous post I don't know what does.

Top wins in the the 70s

Frazier = Foster, Ali, Bugner, Quarry
Holmes = Shavers x2, Weaver, Norton

Ali = Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier x2, Chuvalo, Bugner x2, Norton x2, Frazier x2, Foreman, Patterson, Lyle, Young, Shavers.

.. and after 3 and a half years off!

You mentioned Frazier x2, x2

That's because he forgot to put Patterson X2?.....or maybe because Frazier is X2 better than the others. You can bet there's a good reason for it.

[BoxBuzz]

I think it's hilarious that some people are actually placing Vitali for 2000-2009

He fought 14 times in that span, lost to Byrd and Lewis. His best wins in that span are probably Peter, Sanders........uhhhh.......Larry Donald? Danny Williams?

Lewis fought 7 times, lost to Rahman and his best wins are probably Tua, Tyson, Rahman in the rematch not to mention....well.....Vitali Klitschko.

I can totally get people deciding to put Holyfield over Lewis for the 90's, but even though he only fought for three years into the decade, I have a very hard time placing Vitali over Lewis for the 2000's as a whole. Just in those three years, Lewis' level of opposition and wins dwarfs Klitschko's in my view.

I'd have to go with Lewis...but it's a 3 way race that he noses. Yeah, it's a stretch to call it for Vitali.

[cfang]

No reason for my Frazier duplication other than an error Buzz.

I would still stand by Ali having the best resume and being the best heavy of the 70s. The K vs LL debate for 2000-2009 has some merit but putting Frazier and Holmes above Ali in the 70s makes no sense at all. Frazier started to decline in the early 70s and only had 3 fights from 75-79 whilst Holmes only started to hit his stride around 78' when he beat Shavers and Norton.

Ali was the dominate heavy of the 70s, he had 30 odd fights against champs or contenders and lost 3 (all revenged).

[BoxBuzz]

That's not really Il Duce's opinion, it's just his way of sayin "Howdy!"

[cfang]

Hehe true indeed :-)

[raylawpc]

1900-1909 = James J. Jeffries
1910-1919 = Jack Johnson
1920-1929 = Jack Dempsey
1930-1939 = Joe Louis
1940-1949 = Joe Louis
1950-1959 = Rocky Marciano
1960-1969 = Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali
1970-1979 = Muhammad Ali
1980-1989 = Larry Holmes
1990-1999 = Evander Holyfield
2000-2009 = Lennox Lewis
2010-today = Wladimir Klitschko

[elmersalsa]

If this doesn't refute Duce's preposterous post I don't know what does.

Top wins in the the 70s

Frazier = Foster, Ali, Bugner, Quarry
Holmes = Shavers x2, Weaver, Norton

Ali = Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier x2, Chuvalo, Bugner x2, Norton x2, Frazier x2, Foreman, Patterson, Lyle, Young, Shavers.

.. and after 3 and a half years off!

Ali lost to Norton 3 times, and he beat Frazier twice when Frazier was not in his prime. He lost to Jimmy Young, too. Patterson was already over the hill.

[Ambling Alp II]

editor's note:
No, he was 2-1 vs Norton, though Ali was never at his best when they fought.
Patterson was in his prime the first time, though his back hurt his cause after a few rounds.
He was still quite rusty when he lost to Frazier. When he beat Frazier, Ali was older than Frazier and had taken more punishment in hisc career than Frazier.
He beat Young, and was well past his best when he did it.

[scallum]

If this doesn't refute Duce's preposterous post I don't know what does.

Top wins in the the 70s

Frazier = Foster, Ali, Bugner, Quarry
Holmes = Shavers x2, Weaver, Norton

Ali = Quarry, Bonavena, Frazier x2, Chuvalo, Bugner x2, Norton x2, Frazier x2, Foreman, Patterson, Lyle, Young, Shavers.

.. and after 3 and a half years off!

Ali lost to Norton 3 times, and he beat Frazier twice when Frazier was not in his prime. He lost to Jimmy Young, too. Patterson was already over the hill.

Ali was even futher from his prime

[yancey]

editor's note:
No, he was 2-1 vs Norton, though Ali was never at his best when they fought.
Patterson was in his prime the first time, though his back hurt his cause after a few rounds.
He was still quite rusty when he lost to Frazier. When he beat Frazier, Ali was older than Frazier and had taken more punishment in hisc career than Frazier.
He beat Young, and was well past his best when he did it.

"quite rusty", my ass.



He was ready for the FOTC and you know it.

He also got a gift against Young and you know it.

It wasn't the first thing he got away with either.