Top 10 Heavyweights by Decade

Top 10 Heavyweights by decade
Top 10 by Decade: Part 1 Heavyweights
A ranking experiment which attempts to objectively rank the best heavyweight boxers across different decades starting from the 1930s.
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The fact George Foreman was amongst the top 5-6 in two of the best eras non concurrent is absolutely astonishing!

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Billy Bob I like the fact it shows how underrated Floyd Patterson was. He was top 10, very durable fighter. Could of became champion again when Ali was forced to retire

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I believe that any true Boxing fan owes Rummy a big 'Thank You!' and respect for the work he invested in these Boxing documentaries. His knowledge, speculations and theories have lead to a broader understanding of Boxing history (specially the early decades) and for that I am very grateful! Have a great night Boxing Fans!

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Algimantitas . I agree. Great dedicated job over and over again. Thanks

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70's era vs 90's era....CLASH OF THE BOXING TITANS, damn that would be a show! Frazier vs Holyfield Ali vs Tyson Holmes vs Lewis Foreman vs Bowe Shavers vs Moorer

[@vantheman12welshman66]

jordan newhouse agreed

[@phenomenal2485]

Oh shit, Foreman v Bowe! imagine

[@cattycats4]

Id have Lennox vs Ali, Holmes vs Holyfield, Frazier vs Toney

[@danielvelkovski3156]

jordan newhouse Frazier vs Morrison- battle of the left hooks

[@jnewhouseillustration6075]

Yeah that would be awesome, Ali vs Lewis both in their primes. I would have it Ali UD in a tough battle. Ali is accustomed to 15 rounds, has a solid chin, and his speed is unmatched. Toney vs Frazier whoa.....great debate fight here! I got to go with Smokin Joe by 11th rd TKO, Toney wins the first half using skill but Frazier pressures Toney and hammers a few left hooks in.

[@anonym58063]

If anyone is interested, this is the finalized 2010's ranking: 1. Wladimir Klitschko, 68 points 2. Alexander Povetkin, 63 points 3. Tyson Fury, 61 points 4. Deontay Wilder, 44 points 5. Kubrat Pulev, 39 points 6. Anthony Joshua, 32 points 7. Luis Ortiz, 28 points 8. Vitali Klitschko, 27 points 9. Tomasz Adamek, 25 points 10. Bermane Stiverne, 21 points

[@EthansCONN]

Thanks for this, was wondering what the end result would look like!

[@EthansCONN]

Also, who if any of these fighters do you think will be in the top 10 list for the 2020s decade?

[@anonym58063]

@@EthansCONN Fury, Wilder and Joshua. The rest are either retired or on the verge of it

[@johnjames1235]

@@anonym58063 not wilder lol what's he done or guna do since 2020? 😂

[@johnjames1235]

This list is crazy in reality.. Wlad won 2010 11 12 13 14 fury won 2015 aj won 2016 17 18. 2019 is debatable. So wlad 1 aj2 fury3 it has to be surely?! Points system is ridiculous if it puts ortiz and stiverne in there.

[@ActuallyReid]

Patterson's placements on the final lists made me happy. He's one of my favorite heavyweights and fairly underrated, so i'm glad to see he got some credit in this video. It was also interesting to see how he stacked up against other great heavyweights!

[@emilpashov1040]

potatoassassin8 I don't know much about Patterson was his match after his prime against Liston?

[@ActuallyReid]

Emil Pashov i wouldn't say he was past his prime when up against Liston, but I think he wasn't his best during those bouts. Patterson was just a really small heavyweight who should have been at Cruiserweight (but that wasn't a weight class at the time). Liston's size and power was just too much for him.

[@naroulin9279]

Why he shouldn't ? He became heavyweight champion of the world. The dream of every boxers. He had a very good carrier though. Yes he was no match for Liston and Ali (styles make fights) but he was very good against every other fighters he fought. (sorry for my english).

[@whayes8084]

Patterson had no chin

[@paullav6651]

Floyd did have very good skills and possibly the fastest hands, (unless you include Roy Jones), just was probably a stone or so too light, and didn't have the greatest chin, but aside from the Liston fights was always competitive

[@anonym58063]

The 2000s guys wont score many points because the number of fights every year was reduced from 3-4 to 1-2. Literally one loss means you're out of the top 10

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

On the flip side you only need to win twice rather than 4 times

[@footballfan3991]

El Grando Smokio as if the 2000 generation weren’t bums Fucking Samuel Peter is a world champion

[@anonym58063]

whats wrong with Peter as world champion, I mean he wasnt ATG but was still fun to watch

[@sasa1982uk]

At least the can string together a fluid sentence or not eat food through a straw.

[@marvinjohnson9480]

notice Ali fought everybody on the 60s and70s list. wow what a great fighter even greater man

[@fiucik1]

Except Eddie Machen in the 60's. It's crazy. And to think of it, many guys not only once. Norton and Frazier 3 times; Quarry, Chuvalo, Patterson, Liston twice. That's like 25 fights against TOP 10 of THE DECADE. If only nowadays boxers had balls like this...

[@fiucik1]

And also take a look at Holyfield in the 90's. He fought everybody in TOP 7. Even More impressive, he fought every from TOP 5 more than once - Bowe 3 times, Tyson, Moorer and Lewis twice. That's balls man.

[@douglaswalters2670]

@@fiucik1 Because he lost twice to Norton. Almost twice to Frazier. Beat old man Liston in the first fight who took a dive in the second. Patterson was a chinny LHW. When you contextualise the fights, Ali comes right back down to Earth.

[@reinaldomanuel8488]

@@douglaswalters2670 Also beat foreman, Quarry, Lyle, Shavers, Oscar Bonavena etc. “almost lost twice to Frazier” almost doesn’t count , the fact is he beat Frazier twice, and debate all you want but he beat Ken Norton twice. Pack a lunch and keep going

[@user-bk9fk2tq2z]

@@reinaldomanuel8488 Muhammad Ali lost all his Ken Norton fights, Ken Norton is better than Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali did illegal excessive clinching against Joe Frazier.

[@Rockstar-bq5fm]

Cracking little experiment Rummy and I honestly can't argue with that final list haha good content as always!!

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Great video would love to see more of your videos always look forward to them

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Another great presentation. Thanks, Rummy.

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Interesting video rummy keep it up!

[@rojojr]

This was literally 1 of the best Boxing Videos ever! As a Real Boxing Fan i totally love and appreciate the breakdown of the greatest Heavyweights of all time. Keep up the great work, i cant wait to see the rest of your videos covering the other weight classes.

[@TheImpartialKiwi]

That's actually a great (end) list. If someone had that as their top 10 heavyweights ever, it's not bad at all lol

[@johnd.597]

I’d have Larry Holmes and George Foreman higher, with Sonny Liston at the third spot.

[@fscott1134]

EXCELLENT! Well done! Logic, we need more of that for sure....

[@Tell_It_Right]

If you found a way to rank the level of difficulty each decade was, and factored that into your final list, you'd have a really fine tuned list. The reason you need this calculation is because being the most dominant boxer/athlete during 1 decade doesn't mean you're equal to someone from another. For example, Wilt Chamberlain was the most DOMINANT basketball player EVER, but he's not the best because for many years he played against players who were basically not even as good as college or high school players today. Also, one issue that may affect someone by the "decade" method is their birthdate in relation to the decade. For example, Tyson was dominant starting in the mid-late 80s to 90s. But his career is pretty much segmented by your method and so the chart doesn't reflect that Tyson from like 86-96 was a monster minus the Douglas fight in 90, his jail time(and his ultimate demise in late 96 to Holyfield). But those 10 years of Tyson were pretty good: 45-1

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Another great vid Rummy, many thanks.

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Excellent as usual!

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[@Oldlionboxtalk]

Great video, been watching you for years now and honestly the best historical content out there. This is the stuff I can talk about to only a few people great work. Middleweight would be interesting?

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Great video

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Rummy if you ever take requests - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn.

[@LLE08071635]

Great analysis!

[@vantheman12welshman66]

Classic fight. Holmes late 1970’s v Holyfield 90’s peak. That would be some fight.

[@y-sdahms212]

Holmes early mid 80'

[@vantheman12welshman66]

S-Y Dahms was thinking the Holmes who beat Norton in 1978.

[@chrisbennett606]

Vantheman12 Welshman no way Ali mid sixties to late 70 Ali All the way no contest the greatest

[@AceMcSch00ly]

I got 5 on Holyfield.

[@youtoo2233]

@@y-sdahms212 the Holmes of the mid-80s looked a little more out of shape and more sloppy and quite a bit slower than his younger self. A perfect example of this is the two Spinks fights in 85 and 86

[@flame-sky7148]

Jack Johnson 1910's Jack Dempsey 1920's Love the video, Fighters of the decade

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Interesting video and infos

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So impressed with the use of raw data and the ability to suppress your preconceived notions in such a creative way. It’s a sweet science and you sir deserve a hat tip!

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Awesome vid!

[@jimblomqvist1546]

Wow! It’s really impressive that the statistics pretty well matches evaluations of abilities in terms of fighters’ greatness. Great video, indeed!

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That Sir, is a truly brilliant piece of objective analysis. Thank you for taking the time to prepare that for our benefit. 👏

[@halfwaydowntheroad]

Great series, rummy.

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Excellent video Rummy

[@audan2006]

very interesting. thanks for the video

[@nmlols]

Great work Rummy :-)

[@traceytaggart1740]

This really is an excellent way to break down the best fighters of the decade.

[@keungkau9215]

Great research Rummy! The Brown Bomber should never be forgotten. My dream fights would be Sonny Liston Vs Joe Fraizer or Sonny Liston Vs Earnie Shavers , Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali vs Joe Louis.

[@tylerross9706]

Keung Kau i just asked hanzagod who would win between Frazer and liston. So im not the only one.

[@tylerross9706]

Keung Kau oh and i got ali for the louis v ali mainly because of mobility.

[@alcottdevalte7440]

yeah, and also liston vs marciano, liston vs foreman, liston vs lennox lewis, ali vs marciano, ali vs tyson, foreman vs shavers, foreman vs tyson, tyson vs frazier, ali vs lennox lewis, ali vs holyfield....

[@iamtman1]

Ali by decision over Louis, Liston kos glass chin sheavers rather early, and ko's frazier in a tough fight.

[@paullav6651]

Liston v Frazier could end up similar to the Foreman v Frazier fights, perhaps George hit a little harder, but Sonny was slicker at his best.

[@ybk927]

Great work like always ! The rank by points is a good indication of who is the greatests heavyweights of all time even if the 20'S and 10'S boxer like Jack Johnson are not included. However, the weakness of that system is the fact that some fighters like Wladimir klitschko is rewarded a lot for competing in a weak heavyweight era .

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Excellent and honest breakdown

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[@valdog1]

Great job

[@roberthockett270]

Great yet again, Rummy - thanks! It's interesting - and seems right - that the margin by which Ali exceeds Louis in your last tally is much wider than any other such margin between a fighter n and a fighter n+1. This affords nice numeric expression to the conviction that pretty much everyone has, to the effect that Ali really was the greatest of all time. Thanks again!

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Interesting Rummy! Thanks for sharing.

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Awesome video man! I can't get enough of this channel, and I can't wait to hear your before and after thoughts on Joshua-Parker. Since you have this killer dataset, another suggestion - maybe you could start in 1924 and, going one year at a time, calculate dominance over every ten year period. Then you would have a list of 80+ dominant fighters and see who are your top fighters on that list. It could also give you some more interesting information about underappreciated fighters. For example, using 1949 as the start year, Ezzard Charles was the dominant fighter from 1949-1958, not Marciano, and it would address your Larry Holmes problem of the 1970s-80s. It would also show that at no point was Tyson more dominant than Holyfield over a ten year period, even though some of us might remember it that way from our youth!!

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You have really taught me a lot about boxing

[@adamulla2822]

Man, you should do a chronology of the 1970s heavyweight division

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Best channel on the sweet science. PS, where did you get the voice? Sounds strait out of the roaring forties. Best wishes from down under

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[@atlasallen-manning6092]

great video. it would be interesting to see the same criteria applied to a lifetime score total rather than decade by decade or just the best score in any ten year period. then you wouldn't have boxers unfairly disadvantaged if their careers straddled two decades

[@alvalankerofficial]

This was great. I would have Tyson ahead of Floyd Patterson on the final list, but it's definitely a very interesting study.

[@RobbyGAMEZ]

jesus the 70’s were stacked

[@fiucik1]

And Ali faced everybody from TOP 10 of that era. Some more than once. Actually, he had 14 fights with the TOP 10 boxer of 70's. That's why he was the greatest. Ali also fough all but one(Eddie Machen) TOP 10 60's heavyweights, some more than once. My God...

[@jamestodd1104]

50s 70s and 90s the finest eras in heavyweight boxing

[@michaeloraekweotu2087]

@@jamestodd1104 The 60s, 70s, and 90s were the best in heavyweights imo because the 50s were kind of boring except for rocky marciano

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@@michaeloraekweotu2087 walcott and patterson were good too

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You got the perfect voice for this, reminds me of Bert Sugar

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[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

Do us a chronology of the welterweight or middleweight championship

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This needs updating right now 😀

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Enjoyable!

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[@dfwboxingisback9173]

This is quite interesting. Thanks for putting it together. Of course the 70's had true riders in the Heavyweight division (that's my day, BTW). I would love to see a break down of the dominant division by decade.... Example, 160 dominated the 80's. 147 dominated the 90's, etc.

[@jamestodd1104]

This is good. Almost perfect. I’ve just got Lewis in the 90s and Vitali in the 2000s

[@duncaninglis5407]

Strange to see Dave Tua not getting a nod in the 2000s, but what a great list of fighters

[@glynhannaford7332]

Ps It would be interesting to see an updated edition which completes the last decade 2010-19.

[@ThePoetNamedT]

A proper top 10 list

[@sasa1982uk]

That final top 10 is pretty good

[@leecrockford8567]

Should update this list. Like to see what the standings look like now.

[@smanslam1]

I will always agree with the number 1

[@andisadler2897]

Excellent Series,Congrads yet again Rumsfelt....PEACE yawwlll. What you think about WBC making Wilder now fight Dillian Whyte? About time if you ask me, Whyte has been avoided for too long. Hes earned his shot. Quick Preview also on AJ V PARKER. Thankyou.

[@skipjamesfredmecdowell1854]

Great. Please talk about ezzard charles.

[@CFGrandWizard]

Muhammad Ali, the greatest of all times! 💕 1942-2016 I love you and I miss you very much Champ

[@kbboy101]

Great video mate. A question just out of curiosity. Why are some of the ranks missing? For instance, who is the 2nd best and 4th best HW in 2017?

[@thegoodfight4874]

Can you do this for middle weight please?

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Plz can you make a video for Max Baer?!

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First I hit like, then I watch the vid!