Heavyweight boxing champions
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Heavyweight boxing champions
Order by the year each boxer first won a world heavyweight title. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How the heavyweight boxing champions timeline works
Each card names a boxer who held a world heavyweight title, and they go in order of the year he first won one. His nationality and nickname are printed under the name. The opening card is already down with its year showing. For every fighter after that, choose a gap among the champions placed so far. A good call puts the year on show; a bad one still moves him to his real spot and costs a life. You have three, and ten correct placements in a row earn a lost one back.
The lineage reaches from the first gloved champions to the fragmented era of rival sanctioning bodies, when the title could change hands several times in quick succession. Only a fighter's first title counts, so a great who regained the crown much later is placed by his first reign. Nicknames are fun but rarely date anyone. The hardest champions to place are the short reigns squeezed between long ones, and the brothers.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- James J. Corbett American, Gentleman Jim
- Bob Fitzsimmons Cornish-New Zealander, Ruby Rob
- James J. Jeffries American, The Boilermaker
- Jack Johnson American, The Galveston Giant
- Jess Willard American, The Pottawatomie Giant
- Gene Tunney American, The Fighting Marine
- Max Schmeling German, Black Uhlan of the Rhine
- Max Baer American, The Livermore Larupper
- James J. Braddock American, Cinderella Man
- Joe Louis American, The Brown Bomber
- Jersey Joe Walcott American, born Arnold Cream
- Rocky Marciano American, The Brockton Blockbuster
- Ingemar Johansson Swedish, Ingo
- Sonny Liston American, The Big Bear
- Joe Frazier American, Smokin' Joe
- George Foreman American, Big George
- Leon Spinks American, Neon Leon
- Larry Holmes American, The Easton Assassin
- Michael Spinks American, Jinx
- Buster Douglas American, from Columbus, Ohio
- Evander Holyfield American, The Real Deal
- Lennox Lewis British, The Lion
- Vitali Klitschko Ukrainian, Dr. Ironfist
- Wladimir Klitschko Ukrainian, Dr. Steelhammer
- Nikolai Valuev Russian, The Beast from the East
- Deontay Wilder American, The Bronze Bomber
- Anthony Joshua British, AJ
- Andy Ruiz Jr. Mexican-American, The Destroyer
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