Ross Whitaker Mayweather Robinson Leonard Mclarnin Napoles Hearns Armstrong Griffith Gavilan Britton Lewis Walcott Ryan/Walker
I would take off Ross and Mclarnin, only because ive seen the least amount of footage of those two...and replace them with Griffith and Gavilan...
Robinson #1, Leonard #1b, Hearns#2, Napoles,#3, Benitez,#4, Duran#5 Cuevas#6, Curry,#7 De layhoya#8 Whitaker#09, Gavilan#10, H.Armstrong,#11, Griffith,#12,Ross,#13Walker, (based on sports writers of the era,and he did beat far bigger men, but very little film analysis) # Mayweather jr#14, Trinidad#15.
Robinson Duran Armstrong Griffith Leonard Hearns Basilio Napoles Gavilan Rodriguez Walker Cuevas Benitez Ross McLarnin
Cant have Mayweather in a list of great welters when he was on vacation at its hottest points. Great super feather not great Welter.
List 1 (in order of greatness): Sugar Ray Robinson List 2 (14 from the following names - in chronological order): Joe Walcott Jack Britton Ted Kid Lewis Mickey Walker Barney Ross Jimmy McLarnin Henry Armstrong Kid Gavilan Carmen Basilio Emile Griffith Jose Napoles Sugar Ray Leonard Roberto Duran Thomas Hearns Pernell Whitaker Felix Triniad Floyd Mayweather
1. Sugar Ray Robinson 2. Henry Armstrong 3. Sugar Ray Leonard 4. Kid Gavilan 5. José Napoles 6. Luis Rodríguez 7. Emile Griffith 8. Joe Walcott 9. Tommy Hearns 10. Jack Britton 11. Mickey Walker 12. Barney Ross 13. Jimmy McLarnin 14. Ted Kid Lewis 15. Tommy Ryan Roughly. I had Rodriguez 4-0 over Griffith or 3-1 hence my personal pick of Rodriguez over Griffith despite the 1-3 series.
15 - Barney Ross 14 - Mickey Walker 13 - Jackie Fields 12 - Joe Walcott 11 - Tommy Ryan 10 - Ted "Kid" Lewis 09 - Floyd Mayweather 08 - Tommy Hearns 07 - Kid Gavilan 06 - Henry Armstrong 05 - Emile Griffith 04 - Jose Napoles 03 - Jack Britton 02 - Ray Leonard 01 - Sugar Ray
I’d have him on the list on a P4P basis, but those weren’t great wins in my opinion. Manny was finished, Ricky was never a WW, Maidana caused him huge trouble, and there was nothing special about the others.