Fighers who were ranked in the Ring rankings for 10 consecutive years or more

Roy Jones would have been from 1993-2003.
1993 - 160
1994-1996 -168
1997-2003 - 175

Edit - Ranked #1

 

Floyd was very very close, he definitely would have had a major streak had he not retired early 2008

1998-2007

2009-TBD

 

Floyd Patterson, without actually looking!

 

Manny Pacquiao

2005-2015.

 

To name a few :
Marco Antonio Barrera : 1995-2006
Pernell Whitaker : 1987-1999
Winky Wright : 1995-2007
Juan Manuel Marquez : 1996-2014
Bernard Hopkins : 1992-2014

 

Al Gainer was a ranked light-heavy every single year of the 1930s: http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine's_Annual_Ratings:_Light_Heavyweight--1930s

 

Evander Holyfield has to be on
Lewis?
Duran?

Edit Holyfield is DQ'd due to the 1994 annual list

Lewis made it 91-03

Duran squeezed in with 72-81

 

Zora Folley

1956-1966 (11 straight years)

 

Floyd may be the man! Let's see: Don't have the numbers but was probably top 10 heavy by late 54 until his final fight against Ali in Sept. 72. That's 19 frigging years! You could argue that, after the Stockholm bout with Ellis in Sept. 68, he didn't return to the ring until Sept. 70 against Devil "head butting ******* Green," remember Green smooshed his eye in that one ,the same eye that Ali went after in 72, a very competitive fight until the end, that he may have slipped out of the top 10 briefly but I don't see it that way. A 69-70 Floyd was clearly still a top 10er. IMO Patterson was a top 10 ranked heavy for ALL those years. Give me any others that can match that!

 

Jack Johnson and Harry Wills would have been if The Ring was around in their eras.

But seriously, you'll get a ton of guys

 

He's underrated in my opinion.

 

:good

 

Thomas Hearns