Post your top ten heavyweights

[Master]

1. Tyson Fury
2. Anthony Joshua
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Dillian Whyte
5. Joseph Parker
6. Alexander Povetkin
7. Andy Ruiz Jr
8. Joe Joyce
9. Daniel Dubois
10. Michael Hunter/Oleksandr Usyk

[Primo Carnera]

1. Tyson Fury
2. Anthony Joshua
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Dillian Whyte
5. Joseph Parker
6. Alexander Povetkin
7. Andy Ruiz Jr
8. Joe Joyce
9. Daniel Dubois
10. Michael Hunter/Oleksandr Usyk

Fuck me, you put Joyce & Dubois above Hunter & Usyk?

[powerpuncher]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

[Spicoli]

This is harder than it looks as it's a cluster.

Fury
Joshua
Whyte
Ruiz Jr
Wilder
HellifIknow
Parker
Ortiz
Povetkin
Hunter


Holyfield
Lewis
Tyson
Bowe
Foreman
Moorer
Mercer
McCall
Ruddock
Cooper

Just having flashbacks

[ykdadamaja]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Add to that Kubrat Pulev as well.

[Freedom]

For a couple of years I considered Anthony Joshua to be the best heavyweight.

But after his masterful performance against Deontay Wilder, I consider Tyson Fury to be #1 and Joshua #2.

[Mark TKO]

just wondering how many of these top ten fighters are still undefeated apart from Tyson

[Freedom]

just wondering how many of these top ten fighters are still undefeated apart from Tyson

There's at least 10 good, undefeated heavyweights coming up.

The best of them from what I've seen are Hrgovic and Dubois.

Joyce, Romanov, Sanchez, Milas and Yoka are some of the others.

[Fenster]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Povetkin has a million times better resume than Ortiz.

Ortiz best win = Jennings? Thompson? Hammer? Best he faced = Wilder.

Povetkin best win = Byrd? Chagaev? Huck? Chambers? Takam? Perez? Hunter? Best he faced = Wlad and AJ.

[Fenster]

1. Fury
2. AJ
3. Whyte
4. Wilder
5. Ruiz
6. Povetkin
7. Hunter
8. Parker
9. Ortiz
10. Rivas

[powerpuncher]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Povetkin has a million times better resume than Ortiz.

Ortiz best win = Jennings? Thompson? Hammer? Best he faced = Wilder.

Povetkin best win = Byrd? Chagaev? Huck? Chambers? Takam? Perez? Hunter? Best he faced = Wlad and AJ.

This about now and not their career.Povetkin hasn’t really beaten anyone of note for years and hasn’t looked either

[Fenster]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Povetkin has a million times better resume than Ortiz.

Ortiz best win = Jennings? Thompson? Hammer? Best he faced = Wilder.

Povetkin best win = Byrd? Chagaev? Huck? Chambers? Takam? Perez? Hunter? Best he faced = Wlad and AJ.

This about now and not their career.Povetkin hasn’t really beaten anyone of note for years and hasn’t looked either

Ortiz has never beat anyone of note. That's the point. Hunter is better than anyone Ortiz has faced (barring Wilder, of course). Ortiz lofty status is a bigger smoke and mirrors job than Wilder's 40-0 KO's.

[TitoFan]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Povetkin has a million times better resume than Ortiz.

Ortiz best win = Jennings? Thompson? Hammer? Best he faced = Wilder.

Povetkin best win = Byrd? Chagaev? Huck? Chambers? Takam? Perez? Hunter? Best he faced = Wlad and AJ.

This about now and not their career.Povetkin hasn’t really beaten anyone of note for years and hasn’t looked either

Ortiz has never beat anyone of note. That's the point. Hunter is better than anyone Ortiz has faced (barring Wilder, of course). Ortiz lofty status is a bigger smoke and mirrors job than Wilder's 40-0 KO's.

Comparing resumes has always been subjective. I'd agree that Povetkin's resume is better than Ortiz's, but not by the huge stretch you imply. Two things though...

Ortiz's resume would've had more big names had he not been pretty much avoided during his prime. Again somewhat subjective, but the generally accepted truth. He's always been viewed as a high-risk, low-reward opponent.

Second... why the lofty status for Hunter? Frankly, if you're going to lift up Hunter while downgrading Jennings (an Ortiz opponent), I'm pretty sure the opposite case could be made.

In fact, if we're comparing resumes, Jennings runs rings around Hunter. Why you have Hunter as your own #7 is puzzling to say the least.

[powerpuncher]

Not putting in Ortiz into your lists is ridiculous. Especially when someone like Povetkin is in there along with up and comers who haven’t been tested at all.

Povetkin has a million times better resume than Ortiz.

Ortiz best win = Jennings? Thompson? Hammer? Best he faced = Wilder.

Povetkin best win = Byrd? Chagaev? Huck? Chambers? Takam? Perez? Hunter? Best he faced = Wlad and AJ.

This about now and not their career.Povetkin hasn’t really beaten anyone of note for years and hasn’t looked either

Ortiz has never beat anyone of note. That's the point. Hunter is better than anyone Ortiz has faced (barring Wilder, of course). Ortiz lofty status is a bigger smoke and mirrors job than Wilder's 40-0 KO's.

Let’s go back 5 years and compare. I’ll be honest though, the HW division is not good so it’s hard for most anyone to have a good resume in that division.

The names of note that Ortiz has beaten I would say are Jennings, Thompson, Scott, Kaufman, Hammer. Again, I realize that this isn’t saying much. These fighters overall aren’t that good. Jennings is probably his best win since he had just given Wlad some trouble in their previous fight.

Povetkin has beaten since then Perez, Wach, Duahapas, Price, Hammer, and Fury (Hughie obviously). Again, not really great competition. I think that Perez is probably the best win out of those.

I would say it’s pretty even on resume on who they have beaten. Both lost to the top fighters in the division while Povetkin had a draw with Hunter who I don’t necessarily rate that highly. I think that Ortiz has also much more easily beaten his competition too. Even with Wilder, he was winning both fights until the knockout.

With all of that said, ratings usually qualify within the last fight or two or maybe even a year or two. If you look at the last few fights, Ortiz would seem to have the upper hand. Povetkin has shown that he can get outboxed. Ortiz hasn’t shown that. He has shown that he could get knocked out which Povetkin has also shown.

My main point at the beginning though was that pushing Ortiz out of the top 10 Because of two losses to Wilder seems ridiculous since he has proven to be a good boxer and has at least proven himself to be able to beat some of the upper echelon of HWs while other up and coming fighters have not.