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And you have such a ladder:

Muhammad Ali vs. Michael Spinks (A)
Larry Holmes vs. Riddick Bowe (B)
Mike Tyson vs. Ike Ibeabuchi (C)
George Foreman vs. Earnie Shavers (D)
Joe Frazier vs. David Tua (E)
Evander Holyfield vs. Ken Norton (F)
Vitali Klitschko vs. James Douglas (G)
Lennox Lewis vs. Ron Lyle (H)

And A winner will fight with B winner, C winner with D winner etc. then A-B winner with C-D winner and so on...

How would your ladder look like? Who will win in every fight and how and why? Knockouts, decisions? Who will win the whole tournament?

Think about all boxers in their primes.

If I understand this correctly... I think Frazier would win it.

He'd end up facing Ali/Holmes in the final and in a prime matchup I like him over both of them.

Holy/Norton would be a battle for Joe. Lennox could beat him but probably wouldn't.

I've never participated in one of these before, so here goes:

Ali TKO 8 Spinks (similar to Ali - Bob Foster)
Holmes TKO 13 Bowe (similar to Holmes - Cooney)
Tyson KO 7 Ibeabuchi (Ibeabuchi not proven. In a bout of less-than-stable personalities, I'll take the more proven Tyson. Think Tyson-Ruddock.)
Foreman KO 5 Shavers (similar to Foreman - Lyle)
Frazier W 15 Tua (similar to Frazier - Bonavena)
Holyfield W 15 Norton (Holyfield outworks him and narrowly pulls it off.)
Klitschko KO 10 Douglas (similar to Tucker - Douglas)
Lewis KO 4 Lyle (similar to Foreman - Lyle)

The next round is harder...
Ali W 15 Holmes (Anything less than prime Ali? Then Holmes takes it.)
Foreman KO 7 Tyson (Unless Foreman runs out of gas and is open for Tyson.)
Frazier W 15 Holyfield (I'm looking at FOTC Frazier to make this call.)
Lewis TKO 6 Klitschko (as it happened)

So then we have…
Ali KO 8 Foreman (as it happened)
Lewis KO 4 Frazier (I'm seeing it like Foreman - Frazier, with Joe more motivated and closer to his prime still not able to withstand a prime Lewis.)

Finally…
Ali W 15 Lewis in a pretty boring fight where Ali dances all night.