Greatest Heavyweight of all-time competition

I'm going to be running this starting tomorrow. I have chose 15 heavyweights and I will put all their names into a hat and draw them out in pairs. Those matches will be place on the board and then you choose who (prime for prime) would win. The winner advances to the next round until one is left and they become the Saddoboxing forum Heavyweight Champion !!! As you may have noticed the number of competitors in this competition is uneven (15). It is up to you who gets that last spot so I will give you the 15 already chosen by me and you can chose the last combatant.

This isn't all about who wins in the end though, it would be interseting to see who you think beats who in the mix. In the end all the votes each fighter recives from you will be tallied and a league table will be made to show who you rank where.

Here is the original 15:

Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Muhammed Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Ezzard Charles
Larry Holmes
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Riddick Bowe
Lennox Lewis
Sam Langford


I am going to cast the first vote for 15th place by voting for Gene Tunney. Voting closes 9pm GMT tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Sugar_Shaw

I'm going to be running this starting tomorrow. I have chose 15 heavyweights and I will put all their names into a hat and draw them out in pairs. Those matches will be place on the board and then you choose who (prime for prime) would win. The winner advances to the next round until one is left and they become the Saddoboxing forum Heavyweight Champion !!! As you may have noticed the number of competitors in this competition is uneven (15). It is up to you who gets that last spot so I will give you the 15 already chosen by me and you can chose the last combatant.

This isn't all about who wins in the end though, it would be interseting to see who you think beats who in the mix. In the end all the votes each fighter recives from you will be tallied and a league table will be made to show who you rank where.

Here is the original 15:

Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Muhammed Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Floyd Patterson
Larry Holmes
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Riddick Bowe
Lennox Lewis
Sam Langford


I am going to cast the first vote for 15th place by voting for Gene Tunney. Voting closes 9pm GMT tomorrow.

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Excellent idea i love doing this :coolclick: count me in.

Bump

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Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

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Originally Posted by Sugar_Shaw

I'm going to be running this starting tomorrow. I have chose 15 heavyweights and I will put all their names into a hat and draw them out in pairs. Those matches will be place on the board and then you choose who (prime for prime) would win. The winner advances to the next round until one is left and they become the Saddoboxing forum Heavyweight Champion !!! As you may have noticed the number of competitors in this competition is uneven (15). It is up to you who gets that last spot so I will give you the 15 already chosen by me and you can chose the last combatant.

This isn't all about who wins in the end though, it would be interseting to see who you think beats who in the mix. In the end all the votes each fighter recives from you will be tallied and a league table will be made to show who you rank where.

Here is the original 15:

Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Muhammed Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Floyd Patterson
Larry Holmes
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Riddick Bowe
Lennox Lewis
Sam Langford


I am going to cast the first vote for 15th place by voting for Gene Tunney. Voting closes 9pm GMT tomorrow.

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Excellent idea i love doing this :coolclick: count me in.

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Count me in...How about Ezzard Charles..

Great idea mate - why not have people vote for the top 15 too :-\

Coz Patterson doesn't belong in there ;D

Count me in. We should do this with different weights over the coming months. Fantastic idea Shaw, have a :coolclick:

Hold on, where the fuck is Butterbean? Surely he's recognised as the world's best ever?

.... and what about Mighty Mo ;)

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Originally Posted by BIG H

Great idea mate - why not have people vote for the top 15 too :-\

Coz Patterson doesn't belong in there ;D

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Ok, out goes Patterson and in goes Ezzard Charles. Everyone keep voting for who you want in and who you want out.

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Originally Posted by bzkfn

Hold on, where the F*** is Butterbean? Surely he's recognised as the world's best ever?

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Maybe Sugar Shaw should do a Ungreatest Heavyweight of all time; then ole' Butter can join in the ranks. ;D

I would have bumped Bowe before Patterson....Floyd was the youngest champ up until Tyson....He fought on the cusp of the greatest era in HW boxing.....Regained the belt from Johanssen...Fought Ali, Liston,,,Even if they were losses.......He was the first HW fighter to use the Peek a boo style.....

count me in

I'll give it a try........ CC man.