The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

He was the best or second best flyweight in the world for more than a decade by my reckoning...and for most of that he was the best. His opposition wasn't great, but it was flyweight, not minimum, there were some excellent fighters in that decade.

Plus, he came again. Longevity is the half of it...I rate him but i'll hear opinions.

OK.

 

Taken straight up, I think Pryor is above Tyson. But. I don't much care for the Arguello fights for one reason and another, and that can put Tyson ahead.

What are you guys suggesting here, Tyson higher or Pryor lower?

 

Tier I
Kid McCoy, Beau Jack, Tiger Flowers, Eddie Booker, Jeff Smith, Pancho Villa, Sammy Mandell, Kid Chocolate, Johnny Dundee, Sammy Agnott Billy Grahah.

Tier II
Bob Montgomery, Jeff Fenech, Eusebio Pedroza, Nino Benvenuti, Joe Calzaghe, Ad Wolgast, Midget Wolgast, Billy Petrolle, Ernesto Marcel

Tier III
Aaron Pryor, Mike Tyson, Antonio Cervantes, Joe Brown, Joe Calzaghe, Marcel Cerdan, Battling Battalino, Fidel LaBarbara, Sammy Fuller.

TIER IV
Bud Taylor, Frankie Genaro, Flash Elorde, Battling Nelson, Freddie Miller, Les Darcy, Joe Lynch, Sonny Liston, Maxie Rosenbloom.

TIER V
Jack Dempsey, Harry Wills, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Jimmy Barry.

Holding
K Galaxy, Sixto Escobar, Willie Joyce, Brian Mitchell, Felix Trinidad, Yuri Arbachakov, Kostya Tszyu, Cocoa Kid, Gilberto Roman.


Changes are in bold. Feels a little too early for Myung-woo yuh to me, but does anyone want to second his introduction to the rapidly forming Tier VI?

 

Thank ee stranger.


Anyone want to shout a tier for Roman?

 

All true, but Pryor beat Arguello. Tyson hasn't beaten anyone fit to sniff Arguello's ****. How are you seeing those wins?

 

I think I could stomach seeing them in the same tier in the light of the circumstances as far as Arguello I is concerned. It doesn't seem objectionable.

 

Tyson up a tier, Liston up a tier, Roman introduced to holding.