The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

I wish it were otherwise. I tried with Lynch, it just did not happen.

He may be the best fighter ever over this distance...Johnson for example was starting to really break him down in their fight but he'd already banked three rounds by that point.

Pleeeeeeease. That guy wasn't fit to carry my jockstrap.

Or yours.

Cheers bro.

 

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#95 Jack “Kid” Berg (157-26-9)

The legendary Kid Chocolate did not make the list. Jack Berg is the reason.

With a relentlessness that typified his ring style, Berg amassed 157 wins at the expense of just 26 losses in a 1930s lightweight division as deep as it was wide. Ten of those defeats came as he wound down his career over shorter distances in the US having lost his British title to Jimmy Walsh in 1936 (a bizarre trip to the Caribbean to win the Bermuda Welterweight title aside).

He first ran into Chocolate, or rather Chocolate ran into him, in August of 1930, his fifty-six fight unbeaten streak on the line. The bigger man by some nine pounds, The Whitechapel Whirlwind used every drop of that extra weight to harass and harangue the superior boxer and betting favorite back. Chocolate dominated the early exchanges but Berg finished the stronger of the two—with no more than a round between them in any newspaper report, Berg took the split. Two years later they met again and again Chocolate was beaten, this time over the longer distance of fifteen rounds. erg was no craftsman, he was nothing like The Cuban Bon-Bon’s equal in that regard, any more than he was the equal of the great Tony Canzoneri but he, too, was bested, absorbing what the New York Times called the worst beating of his career. Canzoneri was able to reverse this loss in subsequent rematches but like Joe Glick, Billy Petrolle, Billy Wallace or Tippy Larkin, he found himself coming up short at least once against Jack Berg in what was a stellar hall of fame career.

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How feral does Berg look in that photograph?