Comments on: The All-Time Heavyweight Champion Tournament

By: admin

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:54:48 +0000

This is too bad. It’s a common road quite a few athletes (as well as non-athletes) have taken.

By: dragon images

dragon images — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:47:05 +0000

It’s sad but it appears as though Ricky Hatton’s final big fight has finished in a knockout he lost – to cocaine. Not so much the champ is dead as the chump is dead. A sorry day.

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By: admin

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:57:41 +0000

Good comments from Don and Cap. The Best Heavyweight to never win a title tournament concept is definitely very interesting. That would include a lot of interesting characters!

With the Heavyweight Tournament, conditioning will be used. Computer selected strategies, however, will not. The fighters will fight as they did in real life without worry of a fighter like Marciano or Foreman “sticking and moving” their way through a round.

No worries about that happening!

There are plenty of potential upset match-ups in the first round. The first one that caught my attention was Max Baer vs. Chris Byrd.

The tournament will be available as a single file PDF file download that will be updated – right through to the end of the tournament.

By: don

don — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:58:47 +0000

1st Round Predictions:

One in ten will end in an upset. A one-punch kayo, or an early round knockdown, with a piling on of additional damage leading to a referee stops contest.

Which leads to refs. Random selection will be in effect?

Also- a DQ loss is probable. Holyfield’s head butting, etc. Big Fun!

By: Cap

Cap — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:11:52 +0000

I still say the name in the hat would have been more fun. I would have added top contenders who were never champs like Earl Walls, Ron Lyle, Larry Gains, Harry Wills, Sam Langford, George Chuvalo, Fred Fulton, Joe Baksi, Archie Moore, Luis Firpo, Gunboat Smith, etc. In fact, if you don’t add these guys, why not hold a second tournament of top contenders?

By: don

don — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:14:36 +0000

I hope you are leaving in conditioning. That’s a fighter’s profile as well as anything else. Also hope you are omitting injuries. Broken hands, etc. do not an all-time tournament make!

By: don

don — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:06:55 +0000

Don’t underestimate Burns against Foreman. Remember this is 6-rounds-George in a 15 round fight. If Tommy, an under appreciated talent with a ton of guts, can last into the second half unscathed, the Hell he’ll provide Foreman will make Peralta look like Paradise.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:34 +0000

The better fighters have been seeded higher. The term “Better” being based upon the combination of skills and accomplishments during their careers. This almost ensures the best will meet the best as the tournament progresses. Tommy should do just fine as long as he doesn’t walk into any big shots. I’m sure he’ll give George a fight to remember.

Sam Langford didn’t meet the legal qualifications as a “champion” or holder of a world title. Had he done so, we would have been robbed of Shannon Brigg’s appearance in the tournament. The inclusion of such contemporary greats as – Shannon Briggs, John Ruiz, Sultan Ibragimov, Bruce Seldon and Sam Peter should make this the most colorful, computerized event of all time!

By: Cap

Cap — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:05:42 +0000

Okay! I’m a tad peeved at your matching up George Foreman and Tommy Burns. I think you should have thrown all the names in a hat and drawn that way. This looks like another attempt to save guys like Ali and Holmes for the later rounds instead of getting eliminated early. Another thing. Why isn’t Sam Langford included? He had about as much claim to the world title as some of those pathetic 1980s heavyweights.