The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

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I wouldn't say Hearns to Holy even was "an era"...and there are fighters from different time periods scattered throughout. TO me, Chavez and Olivares are more tied than Hearns and Holyfield...but Barrera and Morales and Gomez and Zarate obviously have an affecting gravity on one another whether they are ranked together or not.

 

Explain for me in a couple of sentences why he is locked above Ricardo Lopez.

 

Herman is a two-time champion at a weight, in an era, where that **** did not happen. He is the first man to regain that title and he did it in a stuck-on brute of an era - certainly the deepest in the division's history prior to the 1960's. He faced no fewer than four other bantamweight title holders, in the era of the unified title, which is horrific luck and should lay anyone low and he went 7-3-1 with them, the draw coming against his immediate successor, one of whom he also bested in a series. In what was (and is in some corners) known as "The Golden Age of the Bantams", he cleared distinguished himself as the best of these men. Between Herman and Ortiz, only one man, Joe Lynch would repeat the feat of reclaiming the title, and Herman had bested him.

Time might have taken the polish from Herman's achievements and his opposition aren't regarded as highly today as they once were, but he's a beast of a bantam and deserves his sport, both on this list and on ESB's ATG bantam list where he ranks just behind Fighting Harada.

Yeah, I was made to feel a bit sad, too.


OK pea, i'm almost convinced. I'll take it under advisement.

 

01 – Sam Langford
02 – Harry Greb
03 – Sugar Ray Robinson
04 – Henry Armstrong
05 – Ezzard Charles
06 – Bob Fitzsimmons
07 – Benny Leonard
08 – Muhammad Ali
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09 – Willie Pep
10 – Joe Louis
11 – Roberto Duran
12 – Joe Gans
13 – Packey McFarland
14 – Archie Moore
15 – Sugar Ray Leonard
16 – Mickey Walker
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17 – Barney Ross
18 – Terry McGovern
19 – Tony Canzoneri
20 – Pernell Whitaker
21 – Charley Burley
22 – Holman Williams
23 – Jimmy McLarnin
24 – Sandy Saddler
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25 - George Dixon
26 - Barbados Joe Walcott
27 - Stanley Ketchel
28 - Billy Conn
29 - Kid Gavilan
30 -Roy Jones
31- Gene Tunney
32 - Tommy Gibbons
33 - Tommy Loughran
34 – Jack Britton
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35 – Eder Jofre
36 – Jose Napoles
37 – Carlos Monzon
38 – Jimmy Bivins
39 – Marvin Hagler
40 – Tommy Ryan
41 – Emile Griffith
42 –Alexis Arguello
43 – Ike Williams
44 – Jimmy Wilde
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45 – Julio Cesar Chavez
46 – Ruben Olivares
47 – Fighting Harada
48 – Carlos Ortiz
49 – Michael Spinks
50 – Young Corbett
51 – Thomas Hearns
52 - Floyd Mayweather
53 - Manny Pacquiao
54 – Evander Holyfield
55 – Freddie Steele
56 – Abe Attell
57 – Mike Gibbons
58 - Bernard Hopkins
59 - Ted Kid Lewis
60 - Luis Manuel Rodriguez
61 - Salvador Sanchez
62 - Wilfredo Gomez
63 - Vicente Saldivar
64 - Rocky Marciano
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65 - Lou Ambers
66 - Freddie Welsh
67 - Jim Driscoll
68 - Dick Tiger
69 - Harold Johnson
70 - Carmen Bassilio
71 - Carlos Zarate
72 - Manuel Ortiz
73 - Miguel Canto
74 - Jack Dempsey (np)
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75 - Lloyd Marshall
76 - Oscar De La Hoya
77 - Azumah Nelson
78 - Mike McCallum
79 - Bob Foster
80 - Teddy Yarosz
81 - Pascual Perez
82 - Panama Al Brown
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83 - Young Griffo
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84 – Jake LaMotta
85 – Larry Holmes
86 – Wilfred Benitez
87 – Juan Manuel Marquez
88 – Erik Morales
89 – Marco Antonio Barrera
90 - Lennox Lewis
91 – Fritzie Zivic
92 - Kid Berg
93 - Joe Frazier
94 - Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
95 - Pete Herman
96 - James Toney
97 - Nico Locche
98 - Willie Joyce
99 - Jung-Koo Chang
100- George Foreman

 

Back to the drawing board.