Only thing missing from the list is Vitali Klitschko! He defeated Corrie Sanders after Lewis had retired to win the Rings vacant heavyweight championship.
Only thing missing from the list is Vitali Klitschko! He defeated Corrie Sanders after Lewis had retired to win the Rings vacant heavyweight championship.
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I made a video about this. I posted it here before, but I think its relevant again:
[youtube=425,350]UIRJDYHIS0o[/youtube]
i like that vid u made cc..............nice work![]()
"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragety" -Cus D'amato-<br /><br />"I pitty the fool"-clubber lang-<br /><br />"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm"
Originally Posted by lance Uppercut
GREAT VID.
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nice vid ccOriginally Posted by lance Uppercut
Shannon Briggs was never a linear champ, not even close.
Holyfield beat Tyson in '96, and didn't lose again until he fought Lewis in '99. Briggs was never anything more than a paper champ, which is clearly evidenced by the a**kicking he took from Lennox.
So it was Tyson that beat Forman after Forman beat Moorer. Interesting; I always thought it looked like Shannon Briggs.Originally Posted by SweetPea
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Is my eye site betraying me cause I don't see Louis anywhere....
Shannon Briggs didn't beat Foreman until 3 years after Foreman beat Moorer. And during those three years, a lot happened.Originally Posted by lance Uppercut
Foreman barely beat Axel Shultz, then was stripped of his belt for refusing to give him a rematch. Then he fought some guy named Grimsley and then Lou Savarese. By the time he fought Briggs, Foreman was the WBU champ, that's it.
In the meantime, Tyson had come out of retirement, KO'd Seldon and Bruno for belts, and then Holyfield had beaten him twice to become heavyweight champ.
When Briggs beat Foreman in late '97, Holyfield was regarded as the heavyweight champ, and Briggs only had one minor belt. Briggs wasn't a linear champ.
Briggs WAS a linear champ
He beat the man that beat the man for christ sakes
We are talking linearage, right back from O Sullivan to Lewis retireing
if Lewis makes a comeback and loses someone else takes the linear
Hold on I think it was broken by Marciano retireing undefeated anyway so......Oh I dont know
Also, Willard retired undefeated. Tunney retired undefeated. Louis retired undefeated. Ali was stripped. They all then saw two other guys fighting for the vacant title, so the lineage has become slightly corrupted over the years, although it's only recently in the scheme of things) that the line has been blurred through the profileration of alphabet beltsOriginally Posted by ross
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
Yea, but Williard, Louis and Ali all came out of retirment to lose the belt and continue the lineage.Originally Posted by X
Williard to Dempsey
Louis to Charles
Ali to Frazier/Holmes
The only 3 times in history where the link is totally broke is where Tunney retired as champ, when Marciano retired as champ, and when Lennox Lewis retired as champ.
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