Give Us All Your Top-10 Light-Heavyweight All-Timers List...

[SCtrojansbaby]

But he lost to Virgil, and Hill simply isn't comparable to these other fighters.

Maske was past his prime when he fought Hill and it was a very very close fight that really could of gone either way.

On a seperate note I don't know why you all are so infatuated with guys you never saw. I guess that's why you people think they are so great.

[Scott9945]

Maske was past his prime when he fought Hill and it was a very very close fight that really could of gone either way.

On a seperate note I don't know why you all are so infatuated with guys you never saw. I guess that's why you people think they are so great.

This forum is titled "Boxing History". What exactly were you expecting?

[StarshipTrooper]

Looks awfully tilted toward the White guys. I'm just saying...

His lists always are :rolleyes9:

Poet

[StarshipTrooper]

hey bud i want to borrow that horizontal monkey picture. how do you put it on?

Reported for racism.

[StarshipTrooper]

01. Ezzard Charles
02. Archie Moore
03. Gene Tunney
04. Bob Foster
05. Michael Spinks
06. Roy Jones Jr.
07. Billy Conn
08. John Henry Lewis
09. Tommy Loughran
10. Tommy Gibbons
11. Maxie Rosenbloom
12. Mauro Mina
13. Jack Dillon
14. Young Stribling

[JAB5239]

Maske was past his prime when he fought Hill and it was a very very close fight that really could of gone either way.

On a seperate note I don't know why you all are so infatuated with guys you never saw. I guess that's why you people think they are so great.

I've actually seen plenty of Spinks, Foster and Johnson to make an educated opinion that they would all beat Maske.

And Maske was less than 33 with very few fights or damage done to him. Just because he retired, how do you get he was past prime?

[NChristo]

Maske was past his prime when he fought Hill and it was a very very close fight that really could of gone either way.

On a seperate note I don't know why you all are so infatuated with guys you never saw. I guess that's why you people think they are so great.

There is enough footage of them and their opponents to gauge their ability.

On a separate note, how can you rank everything on H2H ability ?, it doesn't work just because A fighter can beat B fighter and B fighter can beat C does not mean that A can beat C, it's too flawed to rank on H2H alone. Also, how anyone can have Maske in top 10 Light Heavies is beyond me, is it because he's in your era and you're disregarding all the past ones that you haven't seen or done any research on?, I guess that's why you think he's so great.

[Barn]

Ezzard Charles
Archie Moore
Gene Tunney
Bob Foster
Langford
Michael Spinks
Tommy Loughran
Maxie Rosenbloom
Billy Conn
Jimmy Bivins

[Barn]

01. Ezzard Charles
02. Archie Moore
03. Gene Tunney
04. Bob Foster
05. Michael Spinks
06. Roy Jones Jr.07. Billy Conn
08. John Henry Lewis
09. Tommy Loughran
10. Tommy Gibbons
11. Maxie Rosenbloom
12. Mauro Mina
13. Jack Dillon
14. Young Stribling

Interesting choice, can you expain your criteria

[StarshipTrooper]

Interesting choice, can you expain your criteria

Sure. Firstly, I don't rank based on resume alone. My primary consideration is ability after which I adjust for resume; ie. two fighters that are close in ability the one with the better resume gets ranked higher as he showed those abilities against tougher competition. My primary concern in rankings is ultimately "who was the better fighter?" Another way to look at it is if you took all those fighters that are under consideration and had them all fight each other 10 times how would the final won-loss standings shake out? This is different from pure h2h matchups because as you well know triangle theories don't work in boxing. It's more a matter of how a given fighter does against the entire field rather than how he does h2h against a particular opponent.

Poet