The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

I ****ing did it again

 

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 – Jack Dillon
42 - Emile Griffith
43 –Alexis Arguello
44 – Ike Williams
45 – Jimmy Wilde
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46 – Julio Cesar Chavez
47 – Ruben Olivares
48 – Fighting Harada
49 – Carlos Ortiz
50 – Michael Spinks
51 – Young Corbett
52 – Thomas Hearns
53 - Floyd Mayweather
54 - Manny Pacquiao
55 – Evander Holyfield
56 – Freddie Steele
57 – Abe Attell
58 – Mike Gibbons
59 - Bernard Hopkins
60 - Ted Kid Lewis
61 - Luis Manuel Rodriguez
62 - Salvador Sanchez
63 - Wilfredo Gomez
64 - Vicente Saldivar
65 - Rocky Marciano
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66 - Lou Ambers
67 - Freddie Welsh
68 - Jim Driscoll
69 - Dick Tiger
70 - Harold Johnson
71 - Carmen Bassilio
72 - Manuel Ortiz
72 - Carlos Zarate
74 - Miguel Canto
75 - Jack Dempsey (np)
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76 - Lloyd Marshall
77 - Oscar De La Hoya
78 - Azumah Nelson
79 - Mike McCallum
80 - Bob Foster
81 - Teddy Yarosz
82 - Pascual Perez
83 - Panama Al Brown
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84 - Young Griffo
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85 – Jake LaMotta
86 – Larry Holmes
87 – Wilfred Benitez
88 – Juan Manuel Marquez
89 – Erik Morales
90 – Marco Antonio Barrera
91 - Fritzie Zivic
92 - Joe Frazier
93 - Pete Herman
94 - Lennox Lewis
95 - Jack "Kid" Berg
96 - Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
97 - James Toney
98 - Nicolino Locche
99 - Jung Koo Chang
100-George Foreman

 

He can't be higher than 9, he can't be lower than 12. The sliver that details the difference between 9 and 11 is utterly minuscule. But i will give it a final look when the time comes.

 

OK: Here's the article documentint 100-91.

http://www.boxing.com/the_100_greatest_fighters_of_all_time_part_one_100_91.html

 

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#100 George Foreman (76-5)

You start a list like this backwards, #1 up. The first twenty come away easy. By the thirty mark you begin to doubt yourself. By sixty you are staring mostly at a blank page. At ninety you are tearing your hair out. As the win résumés become thinner and the dominance becomes less total, separating the fighters becomes trickier. Foreman’s was not the first name to be penciled in at #100. He was not the second or the third. He was the tenth. He was not on the original list of candidates at all.

All of this is not to suggest that Foreman is unworthy of consideration. His professional career is replete with unique and exciting aspects. After turning professional his tear through the ripened tomatoes served up to him by a management team eager for mayhem was as destructively violent as anything seen since Sonny Liston, but it was that astonishing night in Kingston, Jamaica when Foreman made his real statement. In a fight he was widely expected to lose he bounced world champion Joe Frazier around the ring like the heel turn in a Rocky movie. George Foreman looked, quite simply, like the greatest heavyweight that had ever stepped into the ring. There was speculation he would rule twenty years.

They never do the behemoths. Foreman was no different. Gregorio Peralta hinted at it when he became the first man to win a meaningful number of rounds against Foreman whilst extending him the distance in 1970 and Muhammad Ali’s extraordinary defeat of Foreman in 1974 perhaps confirmed it. Foreman was vulnerable to thinking boxers—and he had stamina issues. When Jimmy Young outboxed him to a twelve-round decision in 1974, the verdict was well and truly in. Foreman was a steam locomotive that burned propane and weapons grade plutonium, but he could be outboxed and outthought. He retired in 1977 with a reputation as one of heavyweight’s more devastating punchers, arguably an all-time great but without the years at the top or title defenses to prove it.

And then he came back.

Not, like they always do, ten sheepish months later, fending off the taxman with one hand and an awestruck sparring partner with the other, but ten years later, fat, happy, with a set of arms so enormous his prestigious power had survived the dilution of torque that time never fails to mix up with what is almost always a depressing cocktail. There was nothing depressing about this. Up and up the rankings he slithered, self-deprecating at every step, the menacing “black forest” of Norman Mailer psychobabble no longer, but Big George, funny, approachable, beloved. In 1994 when he stood ring-center and allowed heavyweight champion Michael Moorer to beat the crap out of him for ten rounds, we shook ourselves out of the dream he had passed across our eyes and told one another that this was enough, time to pack it in Big George—so when George instead chucked out one of those torque-less right hands, more a man passing bread across the table than a trained fighter throwing a punch, and Moorer collapsed to the canvas we were stunned, less so when he could raise no further than his knees by the count of ten. Guys he hit stayed hit.

In the end, that was the vision I couldn’t quite banish when I was tidying up the end of this list; Foreman, looking mildly to the heavens before turning and kneeling and praying to his God, heavyweight champion of the world once more, twenty years removed from his prime.

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