Re: Schmeling, Braddock, Baer, Dempsey, Tunney, Walcott=Top 15 ATGs
LOL
Surely you can't be serious! Some of them guys were never even champs!
They were not even HW's by todays standards.
Not a single one of them would survive a modern CW fight.
But I suppose, as @greynotsoold points out, you can only judge a fighter's greatness by the criteria of his era...
So going by that measuring stick, as an example.........
What the HELL is a full blown bum like James Braddock doing on ANY toplist, no matter what the criteria?
The fact that a guy like this can BECOME a champ is a PROOF of how poor a quality the era was.
I think if your gonna rank boxers on "greatness" the minimal criteria should atleast be that the boxer should not have a bum record.
Marciano went unbeaten in one of the weakest eras in history (because of the war), but atleast he had a clean record. Braddock has no excuse and no place on such a list.
"Enough with the games mate! Your messing with the Grand Master!"
Lennox Lewis
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