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Heavies have never been our best division. But we have a more even batch at the moment than we have had for a while. Who do you see as our best 5 heavies in order??

To save us the 'he's not really Australian because he wasn't born here shit'. The Leapais, Meehans and so forth are in. So don't go playing the race card.

Joe Bugner at 4. Aussie scene still a little weak :)

Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

polecateddy wrote:Joe Bugner at 4. Aussie scene still a little weak :)

Aussie Joe is in his 60s but could probably beat a few of our fringe heavies

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

I like your list. Leapai stands out head and shoulders at 1 and Haumono has picked up titles his last 2 fights. Meehan is on the slide but probably has the best CV of all. Browne is on the up.

Lucas (Big Daddy ) Brown should have the top spot by the end of the year, followed by Leapai, Haumono, Demori then Ben Edwards if we happen to see him again.

was mentioned that kali has retired from boxing.

never seen kali mention it in an interview though.

was in terrible shape vs travis walker.

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Your top 3 aussie heavy's comprise of 2 kiwis and a samoan - love it.

Craigyid14 wrote:

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Your top 3 aussie heavy's comprise of 2 kiwis and a samoan - love it.

See post 2 of thread.

I can still find it amusing mate.

TrainInsane wrote:

Craigyid14 wrote:

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Your top 3 aussie heavy's comprise of 2 kiwis and a samoan - love it.

See post 2 of thread.

You can ask people to not waste threads with the same old stuff but obviously there will always be one that takes it a invitation to do just that

I always found it odd that Australia/New Zealand didn't produce more (good) heavyweights. You've got a lot of big men in rugby and Aussie Rules, so it's not that there are no big fellas around. Up here in Canada all our big guys go into other sports. Doesn't help that the media seems to rate boxing somewhere between pedophilia and drug dealing. But they have plenty of ink and airtime for the bloody hugging and kicking of MMA. I imagine they're somewhat the same down under.

Cap

Similar problem here. The best athletes over 100kgs usually play one of the football codes.

In Australian boxing you have to get a long way up the tree to make a lot of money, so there is little incentive for the big men to get involved.

Brute wrote:Similar problem here. The best athletes over 100kgs usually play one of the football codes.

In Australian boxing you have to get a long way up the tree to make a lot of money, so there is little incentive for the big men to get involved.

True mate. Who you got for a top 5?

Demori
Leapai
Solo
Browne
Is there an actual consistant 5th?

(Meehan retired IMO)

I can't see a case for anyone at 1 other than Leapai. Big gap to 2.

No one should be above Leapai at this point, not even Demori.

Leapai
Solo
Browne
Meehan
Demori

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Solid list mate, i had it identical to yours, but thought Meehan is on his way out, so i put Big Daddy above him.

Lucas fights Egobi in Melbourne on April 26.

'Frilla wrote:

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Solid list mate, i had it identical to yours, but thought Meehan is on his way out, so i put Big Daddy above him.

Yeah Meehan seems on the way out doesnt he.

I can't really put big daddy anywhere on the list with great confidence because i just don't know how good he is/can be. In his first 5 or 6 fights i thought he was totally limited and simply relying on his power, which would result in him getting ko'ed as soon as he fought someone who could take a punch, but he has shown a lot of technical improvement so who knows where he is headed. All we can do is watch and hope he continues to improve.

I also think that a fight between Leapai and Haumono would be more competetive than most others think.

Craigyid14 wrote:

dan h wrote:Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Brown
De Mori

Probably slot Ben Edwards in at 6 and Justin Whitehead would be up there somewhere if was still fighting

Your top 3 aussie heavy's comprise of 2 kiwis and a samoan - love it.

by your reconning, none of them are australian. all of their families migrated sometime in the last 200 years. YOU, will have to wait for an full blood aboriginal heavyweight.

dickhead.

Better put mine up having started the thread

Leapai
Haumono
Meehan
Browne
De Mori

Meehan is the difficult one to place. Is he retired? Is he shot? Dunno.

Brute wrote:Lucas fights Egobi in Melbourne on April 26.

Good to see him fighting regularly. Is he still under Hatton?

Also what is your top 5 Brute???????

Heavyweights are like race horses. Form is too hard to follow.