The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

Nobody, I don't want to go over 10 in each pod so he can slot right in.

 

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

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

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

Tier IV
Gene Tunney, Pernell Whitaker, Roy Jones, Terry McGovern, Billy Conn, Kid Gavilan, Stanley Ketchel, Eder Jofre, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons.

Tier V
Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, Alexis Arguello, Jose Napoles, Emile Griffith, Jack Britton, Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler, Jimmy Bivins, Tommy Ryan, Jimmy Wilde.

Tier VI
Mike Gibbons, Evander Holyfield, Fighting Harada, Michael Spinks, Wilfredo Gomez, Thomas Hearns, Carlos Ortiz, Ike Williams, Jimmy Wilde, Rocky Marciano, Young Corbett.

Tier VII
Ted Kid Lewis, Carlos Zarate, Jack Dempsey (np), Luis Manuel Rodriguez, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Salvador Sanchez, Abe Attell

Tier VIII
Oscar De La Hoya, Sammy Angott, Miguel Canto, Harold Johnson, Manuel Ortiz, Dick Tiger, Lloyd Marshall.

What about these guys? (Holding)
Fritzie Zivic,Pascual Perez, Larry Holmes, Bob Foster, Panama Al Brown, Benny Lynch, Teddy Yarosz, Jimmy Driscoll, Kid Norfolk.

 

Imma leave Zivic in IX. He beat:

Armstrong, Burley, LaMotta, Azteca, Jannazzo, Furr, Agnott about 140 other guys and went life and death with Conn. He's got plenty of losses too, but nobody on this list really met a definitively higher level of competition. I accept I might need to move him down - and even out, we're at that kind of stage now - at a later date but i'm happy with him where it is when that pod gels.

 

I'm cautious to do that though. I suspect he got the better of it but I don't feel desperately aggrieved watching what is available. They were close and difficult. I tend to bow to the judge's decision where possible.

 

Fritzie Zivic,Pascual Perez, Larry Holmes, Bob Foster, Panama Al Brown, Benny Lynch, Teddy Yarosz, Jimmy Driscoll, Kid Norfolk.

At the moment i'm looking to keep ahold of Perez, Foster, Brown, Yarosz (probably), Driscoll and Zivic and hold back Holmes, Lunch and Norfolk. I'm not alarmed by the sparsity because there will be guys we will want to move up, either to that tier or to different ones above (which will generally mean bringing a guy down).

 

No they are joined at the hip. But I can go back and tidy at any point, what I want now is to get these two boxes sorted out...

 

I understand, but i'm interested in what I have to hand, not who's coming next.

New guys can drop in anywhere we argue them. It's soft now - I could have mentioned about 30 guys in the last batch. But that just makes things unmanagable, the guys i've picked tend to be representitive of one wave or another at this point. I do still need suggestions but i'm interested now in what we actually have listed, at least for the next few hours.