Using the APBA computer boxing game (since renamed Title Bout), this tournament brings together 8 U.S. fighters, 4 Canadians and 4 Europeans (with place of birth being the basis for deciding which group boxers fall into).
With one exception in each of the three groups, the fighters chosen to participate are (arguably, at least) the best heavyweights of all time from their country/region and their performances are based on their career peaks. The other fighter in each group is (arguably) the best current fighter from his country/region and their performances are based on their abilities as of the beginning of 1998. These three fighters are the up-and-coming young Canadian Kirk Johnson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.
The format is a little unusual:
(1) The titles of Canadian, European and U.S. champion were awarded to the fighter in each group who was the first to actually hold the world heavyweight title. This gave Tommy Burns, Bob Fitzsimmons and John L. Sullivan the Championship belts at the outset.
(2) A randomly generated round-robin schedule in which everyone fights everyone once is followed. This means 15 bouts per fighter. When one of the three champions faces another fighter from his group, his title is on the line. However, when he faces a fighter from one of the other groups, it is not at stake.
(3) For each group, if the title-holder at the end of the round-robin also has the best record in the group, he is immediately declared the overall champion of the group. If he doesn't have the best record in his group, he must fight the fighter who does and the winner of that bout is the overall champion of the group.
(4) The overall champions of the Canadian and European groups fight each for the right to meet the U.S. overall champion for the tournament championship.
It's still very early and no belts have changed hands so far. Highlights to this point:
-Tenth round TKO wins by George Chuvalo over Evander Holyfield and Joe Louis over Muhammad Ali.
| Canadians | W | L | D | Champ | Europeans | W | L | D | Champ | |
| Tommy Burns | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | Bob Fitzsimmons | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | |
| Sam Langford | 1 | 0 | 0 | Max Schmeling | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| George Chuvalo | 1 | 0 | 0 | Ingemar Johannsson | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Kirk Johnson | 0 | 1 | 0 | Lennox Lewis | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W | L | D | Champ | W | L | D | Champ | |||
| John L. Sullivan | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | Rocky Marciano | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jack Johnson | 0 | 0 | 0 | Muhammad Ali | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Jack Dempsey | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mike Tyson | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Joe Louis | 1 | 0 | 0 | Evander Holyfield | 0 | 1 | 0 |