Rating the Heavyweights of the Decade
By: Andrew Harrison
Category: andrew golota, chris arreola, chris byrd, evander holyfield, george foreman, hasim rahman, james toney, john ruiz, kali meehan, kevin bacon, lamon brewster, lennox lewis, michael moorer, mike tyson, nikolay valuev, oliver mccall, ray mercer, riddick bowe, roy jones jr, ruslan chagaev, samuel peter, vitali klitschko, wladimir klitschko
With merely a handful of important encounters left on the heavyweight horizon before the sun sets on another decade of prizefighting, the time seems right to offer an opinion on the top ten big men of the noughties.
This was a far more daunting task than I first imagined, such has been the inconsistency within the division throughout this tumultuous period.
There is a trivia game I’m sure many of you will be aware of named ‘six degrees of Kevin Bacon’, which assumes that any actor can be linked back to the ubiquitous Hollywood star in six simple steps. Heavyweight boxing had many Kevin Bacons over the last ten years, the number of times Jameel McCline, Andrew Golota, John Ruiz and Fres Oquendo popped up when scrolling through career records was simply mind boggling.
Having painstakingly examined each candidate in turn, I have listed my picks below with each fighter’s numbers in brackets relating to contests they fought post January 2000.
The debate over this one should be interesting…….
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