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This thread is not another Heavyweight top 10 list...This is a HEAVYWEIGHT HALL OF FAME.

NOTE: This thread is only for Heavyweights::: But any unnatural Heavyweights (aka, boxers who have fought in an heavyweight title bout can be added) EG Tunney,Charles,Moore.

In every HW top 10 list, it's usually topped by Louis or Ali, with this in mind, I believe that these 2 boxers qualify by right.

Please post between 5-10 boxers to join this HALL OF FAME LIST.

Please look at... their records, opponents fought, opponents defeated, standard of boxing, title won/defended.


CREASE'S HEAVYWEIGHT HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS:

*Joe Louis
*Muhammad Ali



PS. Feel free to add to this ASAP. POST YOUR OPINIONS AND NOMINATIONS NOW!!!!!

My personal nominations would be....

1. Rocky Marciano
2. Jack Dempsey
3. Joe Frazier
4. George Foreman
5. Jack Johnson
6. Mike Tyson

larry holmes
george foreman
jack johnson
jim jeffries
rocky marciano
lennox lewis
jack dempsey
joe frazier
mike tyson
floyd patterson

these are all men that deserve hall of fame recognition.

Louis
Ali
Liston
Holmes
Charles
Tunney
Dempsey
Walcot
Sullivan
Corbett
Jefferies
Baer
Schmeling
Holyfield
Tyson
Fitz
Burns
Sharkey
Bradock
Lennox Lewis
Johnson

No particular order .

John L Sullivan
James J Jeffries
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Mohammed Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Larry Holmes
Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield

Hall of Fame Inductees:

John L Sullivan
Jim Jeffries
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Ezzard Charles
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman

So I take it that Ali and Louis are already in there?

The next 10 would be: Larry Holmes, Jack Johnson, George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Lennox Lewis, Sam Langford, Joe Frazier, Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano, and Jack Dempsey.

An extraoridnary nomination goes to John L Sullivan.

Tier 1

Ali
Louis
Johnson
Holmes

Tier 2

Frazier
Foreman
Liston
Dempsey
Holyfield
Lewis
Marciano
Jeffries
Tunney

Tier 3

Tyson
Charles
Schmeling
Walcott
Sharkey

WELL, we're 1 day into my Hall Of Fame and here is the update of the vote(s) so far:::

Rocky Marciano: 6 votes
Jack Dempsey: 6 votes
Joe Frazier: 6 votes
George Foreman: 6 votes
Jack Johnson: 6 votes
Mike Tyson: 5 votes
Larry Holmes: 5 votes
James J. Jeffries: 5 votes
Lennox Lewis: 5 votes
Sonny Liston: 5 votes
John L Sullivan: 4 votes

Ezzartd Charles: 3 votes
Gene Tunney: 3 votes
Evander Holyfield: 3 votes
Jersey Joe Walcott: 2 votes
Max Schmeling: 2 votes
Jack Sharkey: 2 votes
James J. Braddock: 2 votes
Floyd Patterson: 1 vote
James J. Corbett: 1 vote
Max Baer: 1 vote
Bob Fitzsimmons: 1 vote
Tommy Burns: 1 vote
Sam Langford: 1 vote

Langford should definitely make the Hall of Fame.

Btw, HOFs normally have a rule that active or recently retired fighters are ineligible for a certain period. Not here? If this were so, Lennox, Tyson and Holyfield would not qualify and I for example would have to replace Lewis by, say, Charles, Jeffries or Wills.

Moreover, 12 members seems a bit stingy -- in my view ultimately everyone who has gotten a vote should get into the HOF, plus a few more (notably Harry Wills).

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The man most in need of deserved yet denied recognition

Joe Jeanette

BoxBuzz wrote:The man most in need of deserved yet denied recognition

Joe Jeanette

Yeah, he should be in there too. As should Peter Jackson.

BoxBuzz wrote:The man most in need of deserved yet denied recognition

Joe Jeanette

Surely you mean Bert Gilroy?

L. Holmes
J. Johnson
R. Marciano
G. Foreman
J. Fraizer
J. Dempsey
J. Jeffries
J. L. Sullivan
S. Liston
M. Tyson <-- had to do it, just for fun.

I vote for

Jeffries
Johnson
Dempsey
Schmeling
Louis
Marciano
Ali
Frazier
Foreman
Holmes
Tyson
Holyfield
Lewis

Pundit:

I wanna be selective in my "Heavyweight Hall Of Fame"...Great fighter Will probably NOT make it in... Only the true legends who have earned their right in these hollowed halls will gain entry.

I don't want like...36 boxers in the place.

Remeber: WE MUST BE SELECTIVE!

UPDATE 2: (We're gettin there boys, we're gettin there, KEEP VOTING, REMEMBER, ya can't vote TWICE)

Rocky Marciano: 8 votes
Jack Dempsey: 8 votes
Joe Frazier: 8 votes
George Foreman: 8 votes
Jack Johnson: 8 votes
Mike Tyson: 7 votes
Larry Holmes: 7 votes
James J. Jeffries: 7 votes
Lennox Lewis: 6 votes
Sonny Liston: 6 votes
John L Sullivan: 5 votes

Evander Holyfield: 4 votes
Ezzard Charles: 3 votes
Gene Tunney: 3 votes
Max Schmeling: 3 votes
Jersey Joe Walcott: 2 votes
Jack Sharkey: 2 votes
James J. Braddock: 2 votes
Sam Langford: 2 votes
Floyd Patterson: 1 vote
James J. Corbett: 1 vote
Max Baer: 1 vote
Bob Fitzsimmons: 1 vote
Tommy Burns: 1 vote
Harry Wills: 1 vote
Joe Jeanette: 1 vote
Peter Jackson: 1 vote
Bert Gilroy: 1 vote

Next week, will be the annual induction into the Hall Of Fame.

(I'm not syaing how many are goin in, so keep voting for the guys you wanna see make it in).

REMEMBER: YOU CAN'T VOTE TWICE!

Collins2000 wrote:

BoxBuzz wrote:The man most in need of deserved yet denied recognition

Joe Jeanette

Surely you mean Bert Gilroy?

Wasnt he in a swamp rock band??... 8)

It doesn't matter, he's been voted for and counted...

BTW, Please Keep this to HW'S

No Particular Order
1. Joe Louis
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Rocky Marciano
4. Gene Tunney
5. Jack Dempsey

6. Ezzard Charles
7. Larry Holmes
8. Jack Johnson
9. George Foreman
10. Lennox Lewis

(There are other guys that can be voted for but this all I am looking at now)

That's my first post. As Italian I had to put Primo here. He's better than most people think.....

Muhammad Ali
Joe Louis
Larry Holmes
Jack Dempsey
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Max Schmeling
Jack Johnson
Rocky Marciano
Primo Carnera

8)

Yeah Boxpope, I'd have to agree with you there, I'm a fan of Big Primo too...

& I agree that he's a very-underrated boxer...