Top 15 Welterweights of all time

Ross
Whitaker
Mayweather
Robinson
Leonard
Mclarnin
Napoles
Hearns
Armstrong
Griffith
Gavilan
Britton
Lewis
Walcott
Ryan/Walker

 

Great list ...but where are Griffith and Gavilan ?

 

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.

 

I want to put Trinidad in it. He’d make my top 20 I feel.

 

Haven't finished it yet.

 

Surprised at the lack of love for Tommy Ryan and Joe Walcott.

 

Pacquiano
Maidana x2
Guerro
Ortiz
Hatton
Baldomir
Judah

 

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.