Where does Tarver rank all time?

[Kev]

He ranks about like Oliver McCall to be honest...he threw 1 lucky punch and hit pay dirt. He wasn't consistent enough to be highly rated.

Hell Roy beat him in the first fight but Tarver was just going to bitch til he got a rematch.

I would have LOVED to see a prime Bob Foster fight Tarver.

Tarver was better than McCall.

He was consistently one of the very best at 175lbs. He beat Jones Jr 3 times in my book. He avenged his losses to Johnson and Harding and beat Clinton Woods and Griffin.

He was the unisputed champ, I think he won about 5 world titles in that weight class in all, a 3 time world champ.

He's far above Oliver McCall. He ranks with Coralles, Castillo and Hatton imo, at his best, was the number 1 in his weight class, and even after losing, went back and regained hist title.

[ICB]

Antonio Tarver was terrible against Eric Harding in there 1st fight, he basically quit in the last round looking for a way out. He's lucky he lost that fight and didn't go on to fight RJJ at that point in RJJ's career.

There's many Light Heavyweight's who were better than Antonio Tarver.

[Mars_ax]

I like Tarver far better as an announcer then I ever have as a fighter. His main claim to fame was knocking out RJJ, but other than that, his career has been fairly unremarkable. In re: All-time, just for beating Jones Jr. he should make the top 25 somewhere as a light-heavyweight, but overall I don't see him getting close to the top 100.

[Hulk]

He ranks about like Oliver McCall to be honest...he threw 1 lucky punch and hit pay dirt. He wasn't consistent enough to be highly rated.

Hell Roy beat him in the first fight but Tarver was just going to bitch til he got a rematch.

I would have LOVED to see a prime Bob Foster fight Tarver.

Tarver was better than McCall.

He was consistently one of the very best at 175lbs. He beat Jones Jr 3 times in my book. He avenged his losses to Johnson and Harding and beat Clinton Woods and Griffin.

He was the unisputed champ, I think he won about 5 world titles in that weight class in all, a 3 time world champ.

He's far above Oliver McCall. He ranks with Coralles, Castillo and Hatton imo, at his best, was the number 1 in his weight class, and even after losing, went back and regained hist title.

How the fuck ANYONE can think Tarver won the first fight with Roy is confounding, and utterly puzzling.

Roy won the fight CLEARLY.

It was just the first time anyone had gotten Roy against the ropes and done some work.

Tarver won 4 rounds and it was surprising, but he faded in the last two rounds like he always does and Roy outgutted him and beat him.