Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 17:35
by funso banjo baby
the first name that came to my head was your man Jersey Joe
what a truly lovely boxer to watch
the final exchange between Walcott and Louis in their second fight is one of history's greatest
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 01:31
by jaclem3
the question is "who was the BEST.....?....and of course that was ezzard charles.. was broke and fought well past his time and he had to pay his bills.....i mean the daily one ones,,,,,, gas and electric,.food,.etc.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 01:38
by margaret thatcher
No, Holy was the best HW out of these guys
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 03:13
by Onetimeonly
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Mar 2020, 01:38
No, Holy was the best HW out of these guys
Easily, Charles was best overall
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Mar 2020, 01:38
No, Holy was the best HW out of these guys
Easily, Charles was best overall
X2
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 11:07
by Dannium
+1 for Holyfield.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 15:52
by adislav123
Mike Weaver was a hell of a fighter and a worthy champion.
at his best he would've given all the "double digit losses champs" mentioned here as tough a fight they could handle, ezz charles, jersey joe, even head holy.
a frikkin disgrace how king robbed him of his chance to defend his belt against dokes... dokes was feriocious in there but it was 100% corruption and a paid off ref with an ordered stoppage at first chance.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑10 Mar 2020, 15:39
It looks like there has been 9 of them:
Johnson, Schmeling, Sharkey, Carnera, Baer, Braddock, Charles, Walcott and Holyfield.
It's kind of interesting that 5 of the 9 were the champions the period between Tunney and Louis.
Don't forget Leon Spinks also had double digit losses. Though he is far from the best of the bunch
HERCULES WEAVER
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Don't forget Leon Spinks also had double digit losses. Though he is far from the best of the bunch
HERCULES WEAVER
forgot Weaver also
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 17 Mar 2020, 10:42
by Ambling Alp II
I was just counting real champions, not WBS title holders. If you count them, then you have Weaver and probably a few other guys. Jimmy Ellis and Trevor Berbick would be a couple more.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 17 Mar 2020, 14:56
by adislav123
terrible tim too, two time titleholder.
that's it.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 17 Mar 2020, 20:35
by tiny_acres
Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑17 Mar 2020, 10:42
I was just counting real champions, not WBS title holders. If you count them, then you have Weaver and probably a few other guys. Jimmy Ellis and Trevor Berbick would be a couple more.
Well Leon Spinks was the real champ if only for a minute
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 18 Mar 2020, 10:50
by Ambling Alp II
Yep, Leon was.
Bonecrusher Smith, Tony Tubbs, Greg Page are more WBS guys with 10 or more losses. Probably more.
Re: Best Heavyweight Champion with double digit losses?
Posted: 18 Mar 2020, 19:58
by tiny_acres
Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑18 Mar 2020, 10:50
Yep, Leon was.
Bonecrusher Smith, Tony Tubbs, Greg Page are more WBS guys with 10 or more losses. Probably more.
forgot Weaver also