The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

Long way to go.

 

I guess what I want is for someone to say where Spinks should be placed and why rather than someone saying he should be on the list. I think last time I did a list he was around 50, so I'd be happy to see him morph onto the seventh teir, and that is likely what will happen by the looks. Someone, I can't remember who, mentioned him as being alongside Hearns and that saw him introduced to the holding pen but nothing since then really.

This is asking a lot given the # of fighters I guess.

 

Tier I

1) San Langford
2) Harry Greb
3) Ray Robinson
4) Henry Armstrong
5) Bob Fitzsimmons
6) Ezzard Charles
7) Muhammad Ali
8) Benny Leonard

Tier II
Joe Gans, Mickey Walker, Archie Moore, Roberto Duran, Packey McFarland, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Leonard.

Tier III
Barbados Joe Walcott, George Dixon, Charley Burley, Holman Williams, Sugar Ray Leonard, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, Jimmy McLarnin, Sandy Saddler.

Tier IV
]Gene Tunney, Ruben Olivares, Pernell Whitaker, Roy Jones, Terry McGovern, Billy Conn, Kid Gavilan, Stanley Ketchel, Eder Jofre.

Tier V
Julio Cesar Chavez, Alexis Arguello, Jimmy Wilde, Jose Napoles, Emile Griffith, Jack Britton, Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler, Jimmy Bivins, Ike Williams.

Tier VI
Salvador Sanchez, Manuel Ortiz, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Micheal Spinks, Rocky Marciano, Fighting Harada.


What about these guys? (Holding)
Tommy Loughran, Ted Kid Lewis, Carlos Zarate, Jack Dempsey (np), Tommy Ryan, Carlos Ortiz, Luis Manuel Rodriguez, Bernard Hopkins, Dick Tiger, Wilfredo Gomez, Thomas Hearns.

 

Well I rank Mayweather a good dun above Oscar; but that doesn' treally exlcude Oscar being placed on hold. If it fans out into a hundred we'll find his spot.


Have you done a "best in the world" lineage, in a p4p sense? Like your weight-division thing?

 

I think Marquez is going to be a big problem in fact.

 

In fact I might rip out Mayweather, Pac and Hopkins and give active fighters a miss.

 

I would pick Oscar to win h2h, but I do think, for once, he has a nice style advantage, which is weird...still, I have to respect Mayweather's status. He's been tehe best fighter in the world for how long? Even if Pacquiao overhauled him for a short stint it's a nice period of upper-tier eliteness, for want of a better word. I would quite like to see a comparison to Oscar's stint on top though.