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In 1967, a Miami promoter, Murray Woroner wanted to simulate a tournament (by means of a supercomputer). This tournment would have the greatest boxers in history, fighting for the All-Time World Heavyweight Championship.

He reasoned that it would be a straight knock-out tournament and that it would contain 16 of the greatest boxers throughout time. Worner called upon the services of 2 boxing experts to assist him,
Nat Fleischer (Editor of The Ring Magazine) +
Hank Kaplan (President of the World Boxing Historian's Organisation).

After a week's worth of discussions, they narrowed the field down to the last 16 great boxers.

The Supercomputer took 18 months to build and develop and it was fed with extensive video footage, records and information of the 16 boxers. Once it was developed it choose the First Round of Fights At Random...


NOW.

I asked you, my esteemed friends (BOXREC MEMBERS) to re-play the tournment and see who wins...

IT'S OVER THE BOXREC MEMBERS HAVE SPOKEN AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE FINAL!!!!

hey crease.......is rex layne still in ur top 10 hardest hitting heavyweight punchers of all time list?

I would like to thank the 07 BOXREC members for voting on the final matches...


HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

THE 3RD PLACE PLAY-OFF:

Jack Dempsey vs. Jack Johnson
Dempsey (3 votes) - Johnson (4 votes)
RESULT: Johnson wins on points decision.


THE FINAL:

Joe Louis vs. Muhammad Ali
Louis (2 votes) - Ali (5 votes)
RESULT: Ali by KO round 14.


SO HERE ARE THE FIGHTERS AND THEIR RANKING ACCORDING TO YOU:

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Joe Louis
3. Jack Johnson
4. Jack Dempsey

QF: Rocky Marciano
QF: Jersey Joe Walcott
QF: John L. Sullivan
QF: Bob Fitzsimmons

R1: Jim Corbett
R1: Jim Braddock
R1: Jess Willard
R1: Jack Sharkey
R1: Gene Tunney
R1: Max Baer
R1: Jim Jeffries
R1: Max Schmeling

What do you guys think of the placings, looking back, do you think they are acurate???

I think that alot of the fights went the way that they should have, but I disagree with some, of course. Myself my own rankings of the fighters are:

1.) Muhammad Ali
2.) Joe Louis
3.) Jack Dempsey
4.) Jack Johnson
5.) Rocky Marciano
6.) Bob Fitzsimmons
7.) Jersey Joe Walcott
8.) James J. Jefferies
9.) John L. Sullivan
10.) Gene Tunney*
11.) James J. Corbett
12.) Max Schmeling
13.) James J. Braddock
14.) Jack Sharkey
15.) Max Baer
16.) Jess Willard

*I place Gene Tunney lower than most because he was a better LHW and the bulk of his career was at that weight, his HW championship reign was brief, he avoided greater contenders at HW, and he didn't face that many HW's, plus he drew the color line.

Here is my ranking of the list of 16 boxers mentioned....

1. Rocky Marciano
2. Joe Louis
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Jack Dempsey
5. Jack Johnson
6. James J. Jeffries
7. John L. Sullivan
8. Jersey Joe Walcott
9. Gene Tunney
10. Max Schmeling
11. James J. Corbett
12. James J. Braddock
13. Jack Sharkey
14. Max Baer
15. Bon Fitzsimmons
16. Jess Willard

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....

I remember reading here somewhere that, (but I can't remember who said it,)

"BB, some people would say that you talk up Walcott and Charles ina bid to make Marciano look better"....

HA HA HA HA HA HA....

THAT'S LUDICROUS

So, does that mean that anyone who bums up or compliments Tyson are Evander Holyfield fans because he was the man who finished Tyson off...

OR

Does that mean that anyone who bums up Dempsey are Gene Tuney fans because Tunney beat Dempsey?


Sometimes, I just don't understand you peoples' idea of logic.......