THE TOP 25 OF THE LAST 25 YEARS

I'll be the guy who says Tyson should go in there somewhere. Him not even being on the honorable mention for #25 list seems questionable.

I've thought Evander was over-hyped at heavy and am not too familiar with what he did at cruiser...how dominant was he? What did he accomplish for him to be that high?

How close was Pac to getting the #1 spot?

Holyfield= Greatest cruiser of all-time. Beat two of the best in that division's history in Carlos DeLeon and Dwight Qawi.

Gumby wrote:

I'll be the guy who says Tyson should go in there somewhere. Him not even being on the honorable mention for #25 list seems questionable.

I've thought Evander was over-hyped at heavy and am not too familiar with what he did at cruiser...how dominant was he? What did he accomplish for him to be that high?

How close was Pac to getting the #1 spot?

beat the undisputed champion Dwight Muhammad Qawi in his 13th pro fight then destroyed another great in DeLeon, then went to Heavy and has wins over Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Michael Moorer, Riddick Bowe, Bobby Czyz, Mercer, and Dokes

Gumby wrote:

I'll be the guy who says Tyson should go in there somewhere. Him not even being on the honorable mention for #25 list seems questionable.

I've thought Evander was over-hyped at heavy and am not too familiar with what he did at cruiser...how dominant was he? What did he accomplish for him to be that high?

How close was Pac to getting the #1 spot?

Tyson could get a spot I suppose. Evander was without question the greatest cruiser we have yet had. He beat the next guy DeLeon badly and also got rid of ATG DM Qawi.

Manny? he needs 3-4 more big wins to take the #1 spot in my view.

hey marble nice to see you..exc ellent list and i like the qualifier that the first fight had to be no later than 1985..it should a nice variety of excellent to great fighters including some of the honorable mention.without getting into who should rank where ill say sweet pea was the best of that fine lot.

i think theres always room for mike tyson in the honorable mention for sure.

if you are going strictly by accomplishments in the ring then i think your list is pretty good. i cant really argue with it too much. the only one that i would really disagree with would be ricardo lopez. i think that he should probably be around 10-15 but i know how much you love him so i wont hold it against you.

p.s. glad to have you here!

Welcome to the board Marble. It's good to have you here.

powerpuncher wrote:

if you are going strictly by accomplishments in the ring then i think your list is pretty good. i cant really argue with it too much. the only one that i would really disagree with would be ricardo lopez. i think that he should probably be around 10-15 but i know how much you love him so i wont hold it against you.

p.s. glad to have you here!

Like I said, I'm not sure I have the capacity to be truly objective with regards to Finito.

I would personally not put Evander nearly that high. Great fighter, but more like 20-25. Despite Pac still being active, I would already put him in the top 5, and could understand others rating him #1. What he has done is amazing.

I won't commented any further on the topic because I don't really do the p4p thing.