Top ten Heavyweights in the post Ali Era

[jon09]

. Lennox Lewis
2. Evander Holyfield
3. Mike Tyson
4. Larry Holmes
5. Vitali Klitschko
6. Vlad Klitschko
7. George Foreman
8. Riddick Bowe
9. Oliver McCall
10. Tim Witherspoon


Lennox Lewis is number 1 and Vitali and Wlad a in the top 10? You must be european or just plain dense. Lennox Lewis was knocked out 2 times in his career with one punch by 3rd club fighters in McCall and Rahman. Lewis best wins came against a washed up Holyfield and Tyson and in the second Holyfield fight he probably lost.

Wlad gets knocked out every time he steps up and fights somebody who fights back, His best wins came over a blown up middleweight with no power in Chris Byrd, Sam Peter a morbidly obese slow unskilled overrated joke and who else? Ray Austin maybe? Vitali best wins came over Danny Williams who is only known because he beat a washed up Tyson, Corrie Sanders who is only known because he knocked out glass chin Wladimir and for beating Juan Carlos Gomez a blown up untalented cruiserweight.

Even there so called impressive punching power is laughable, Who do they actually knockout? I dont mean having the ref stopped the fight while the opponent is still on their feet. They both fought Sam Peter and neither could knock him down yet Jameel McCline knocked Peter down 3 times. Just shows you how having a impressive ko percentage doesnt mean you can punch hard.

Tyson is rated over Foreman? Tyson admitted he was afraid and knew he couldnt beat even a old slow Foreman so why is he ranked that high? Not to mention his best wins came over guys Don King payed to take a dive for him like Bruce Seldon did.

Tim Witherspoon? What exactly did he do to deserve to be on any list? Who exactly did he beat? Larry Holmes avoid fighting Foreman in the 70s when Foreman was in his prime because he knew he couldnt beat him not to mention average fighters like Renaldo Snipes almost knocked him out with 1 punch.

Well you do have George Foreman, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe so at least you got that right.

Welcome to the forum and digging out some of the old stuff I see. I disagree on the K brothers comment as limited as they are I still think they beat alot of the greats of the 80's til now. And I don't remember Tyson saying that he was afraid of Foreman but if you can find that let me know I remember Tyson saying that he thought that he would kill Foreman and thats why he did not want to fight him. And why not Tim W on the list he gave Holmes a helluva fight beat Bruno, Tillis, Page,Snipes,Smith,Tubbs all of these men were either belt holders or contenders in the 80's. I could defend my list all day long but I got other things to do... Its all matter of opinion George.

[JazMerkin]

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mike Tyson
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Riddick Bowe
5. Evander Holyfield
6. Ike Ibeabuchi
7. Vitali Klitschko
8. Wladimir Klitschko
9. David Tua
10. Michael Moorer

Haven't included Foreman because his prime was pre-Ali's decline. He would still probably get in there, but just didn't feel to put the faded version in. It was tough picking the bottom two, had both Byrd & Golota right around there.

[Hunter]

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mike Tyson
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Riddick Bowe
5. Evander Holyfield
6. Ike Ibeabuchi
7. Vitali Klitschko
8. Wladimir Klitschko
9. David Tua
10. Michael Moorer

Haven't included Foreman because his prime was pre-Ali's decline. He would still probably get in there, but just didn't feel to put the faded version in. It was tough picking the bottom two, had both Byrd & Golota right around there.

Ike - Are you serious? He is totally unproven and had no discipline. He won a decision over Tua and KO'ed Byrd and he is top ten of the last 25 Years (just behind Holyfield)? Come on now.

[JazMerkin]

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mike Tyson
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Riddick Bowe
5. Evander Holyfield
6. Ike Ibeabuchi
7. Vitali Klitschko
8. Wladimir Klitschko
9. David Tua
10. Michael Moorer

Haven't included Foreman because his prime was pre-Ali's decline. He would still probably get in there, but just didn't feel to put the faded version in. It was tough picking the bottom two, had both Byrd & Golota right around there.

Ike - Are you serious? He is totally unproven and had no discipline. He won a decision over Tua and KO'ed Byrd and he is top ten of the last 25 Years (just behind Holyfield)? Come on now.

There was quite a gap between the top 5 & the rest, and it may be due to the fact the Klitschkos bore me to death, but he was awesome, and I think it he wasn't a dirty rapist piece of shit, then he would have been the Heavyweight star of this decade. What's yours then?