I'd say Ali and Holyfield beat the most "Legends". Not many people match their resumes. Most great fighters may only have 1 or two legends on their resume.
this is not accurate at all,lets not change what I am talking about here to boost your favorite fighters!
Ray Leonard beat: Wilfred Benitez Thomas Hears Roberto Duran Marvin Hagler All four are always in the top 100 boxers of all-time. I'd say that's pretty impressive considering 2 were unbeaten at the time and one had only lost once prior.
Not in my top 100 of all time ! and thats a low ass number of hall of famers beaten! Thats about half for the usual names that are in top 10 ,top 20 etc . Pep also has very **** poor number of hall of famers beaten
HALL OF FAME WIN-LOST-DRAW-NC/ND-TOTAL BOUTS-DIFFERENT HOF FOUGHT-DIFFERENT HOF BEAT NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Harry Greb - 31 11 05 00 47 15 14 Dillon 2-0 Flowers 1-2 GibbonsM 1-1 GibbonsT 2-2 Houck 3-0 Levinsky 6-0 Loughran 4-1-1 Miske 1-1-1 Norfolk 1-1 O'Dowd 0-0-1 Rosenbloom 1-0 Slattery 1-0 SmithJ 6-0-1 Tunney 1-3-1 Walker 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Jimmy McLarnin - 16 08 02 00 26 15 13 Ambers 1-0 Brouillard 0-1 Canzoneri 1-1 Corbett III 1-0 Fields 1-0 Kaplan 1-0 LaBarba 2-0-1 LeonardB 1-0 Mandell 2-1 MoorePal 0-0-1 Petrolle 2-1 Ross 1-2 TaylorB 1-2 Terris 1-0 Villa 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Henry Armstrong - 14 07 00 00 21 13 11 Ambers 1-1 Angott 1-0 Arizmendi 3-2 Bass 1-0 JackB 0-1 Jenkins 2-0 Montanez 1-0 Robinson 0-1 Ross 1-0 Sarron 1-0 WolgastM 1-0 Wright 1-0 Zivic 1-2 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Sam Langford - 26 18 14 00 58 12 10 Flowers 1-0 Gans 1-0 Godfrey 2-0-1 Jeannette 8-2-4 JohnsonJ 0-1 Ketchel 1-0 KidD 2-0 McVea 7-2-6 Norfolk 1-0 O'Brien 1-0 WalcottBJ 0-0-1 Wills 2-13-2 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Sugar Ray Robinson - 21 07 01 00 29 12 10 Angott 3-0 Armstrong 1-0 Basilio 1-1 FullmerG 1-2-1 Gavilan 2-0 Giardello 0-1 Graziano 1-0 LaMotta 5-1 Maxim 0-1 Olson 4-0 Turpin 1-1 Zivic 2-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Tony Canzoneri - 12 10 01 00 23 12 09 Ambers 1-2 Arizmendi 1-0 Bass 2-0 Berg 2-1 Chocolate 2-0 DundeeJ 1-0 Mandell 0-1 McLarnin 1-1 Petrolle 1-1 Ramey 0-1 Ross 0-2 TaylorB 1-1-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Tommy Loughran - 09 09 03 00 21 11 09 Baer 1-0 Braddock 1-0 Carpentier 1-0 Delaney 0-1-1 Greb 1-4-1 SharkeyJ 1-1 Slattery 1-0 SmithJ 1-1 Stribling 1-2 Tunney 0-0-1 Walker 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Sammy Angott - 11 08 02 00 21 12 08 Arizmendi 1-0-1 Armstrong 0-1 JackB 0-1-1 Jenkins 1-0 Miller 1-0 Montgomery 3-0 Pep 1-0 Ramey 2-0 Robinson 0-3 Sarron 1-0 WilliamsI 1-2 Zivic 0-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Ezzard Charles - 20 08 01 00 29 11 08 Bivins 4-1 Burley 2-0 JohnsonH 0-1 Louis 1-0 Marciano 0-2 Marshall 2-1 Maxim 5-0 MooreA 3-0 Overlin 0-1-1 WalcottJJ 2-2 Yarosz 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Joe Louis - 10 03 00 00 13 10 08 Baer 1-0 Bivins 1-0 Braddock 1-0 Charles 0-1 Conn 2-0 LewisJH 1-0 Marciano 0-1 Schmeling 1-1 SharkeyJ 1-0 WalcottJJ 2-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Sammy Mandell - 08 04 02 00 12 09 08 Canzoneri 1-0 DundeeJ 1-0 Fields 1-1 Kansas 1-0 Kaplan 0-1 McLarnin 1-2 MoorePal 1-0-1 Petrolle 1-0 Terris 1-0-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Lloyd Marshall - 08 10 00 00 18 12 08 Bivins 0-1 Booker 0-1 Brouillard 1-0 Burley 1-0 Charles 1-2 LaMotta 1-0 Maxim 1-0 MooreA 0-2 Olson 0-1 Overlin 1-0 WilliamsH 1-2 Yarosz 1-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Muhammad Ali - 11 03 00 00 14 08 07 Foreman 1-0 Foster 1-0 Frazier 2-1 Holmes 0-1 Liston 2-0 MooreA 1-0 Norton 2-1 Patterson 2-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Jimmy Bivins - 07 12 00 00 19 10 07 Burley 1-0 Charles 1-4 JohnsonH 0-1 Louis 0-1 Marshall 1-0 Maxim 1-1 MooreA 1-4 Soose 1-0 WalcottJJ 0-1 Yarosz 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Leo Houck - 11 13 02 00 26 10 07 Britton 1-0-2 Dillon 1-2 GibbonsM 0-2 Greb 0-3 Klaus 1-2 Levinsky 3-2 LewisH 3-0 Papke 1-0 SmithJ 1-0 Tunney 0-2 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Jack Johnson - 13 03 02 00 18 10 07 Burns 1-0 Choynski 0-1 Fitzsimmons 1-0 Jeannette 5-1-1 Jeffries 1-0 Ketchel 1-0 Langford 1-0 McVea 3-0 O'Brien 0-0-1 Willard 0-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Johnny Kilbane - 07 04 01 00 12 08 07 Attell 1-1 Chaney 1-0 Criqui 0-1 DundeeJ 1-0-1 Kansas 1-1 LeonardB 1-1 Welsh 1-0 WilliamsKid 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Benny Leonard - 16 07 03 00 26 09 07 Britton 2-1 DundeeJ 4-2-2 Kansas 4-0 Kilbane 1-1 LewisTKid 0-0-1 McLarnin 0-1 Ritchie 1-1 Tendler 2-0 Welsh 2-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Archie Moore - 16 12 03 00 31 15 07 Ali-M 0-1 Bivins 4-1 Booker 0-1-2 Burley 0-1 Charles 0-3 JohnsonH 4-1 KidC 1-0 Marciano 0-1 Marshall 2-0 Maxim 3-0 Olson 1-0 Pastrano 0-0-1 Patterson 0-1 WilliamsH 1-1 Yarosz 0-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Maxie Rosenbloom - 12 11 02 01 26 10 07 Braddock 1-0-1-NC Delaney 0-1 Flowers 1-0-2 Greb 0-1 LewisJH 3-2 LewisTKid 1-0 Shade 2-0 Slattery 3-4 Stribling 0-2 Walker 1-1 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Jack Sharkey - 07 04 00 00 11 09 07 Delaney 1-0 DempseyJ 0-1 Godfrey 1-0 Loughran 1-1 Louis 0-1 Schmeling 1-1 Stribling 1-0 Walker 1-0 Wills 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Gene Tunney - 11 01 02 00 14 08 07 Carpentier 1-0 DempseyJ 2-0 GibbonsT 1-0 Greb 3-1-1 Houck 2-0 Levinsky 1-0 Loughran 0-0-1 SmithJ 1-0 NAME W L D NC/ND TB DIFF HOF W/HOF Freddie Welsh - 10 06 02 01 19 10 07 Attell 1-0 Driscoll 1-0-1-NC DundeeJ 1-0 Kansas 0-1 Kilbane 0-1 LeonardB 1-2 McFarland 0-1-2 NelsonB 1-0 Ritchie 2-1 WolgastA 3-0
So lets see. He beat one of the greatest middleweight fighters of all time-EASILY in the top ten middle weights EVER. He beat the boxer who was the youngest fighter to ever win a World Title AND is a three weight class champion. Beat Hearts who is a FOUR weight division champion also more then likely top ten welterweights of all-time. Made Duran quit who then went on to capture not one but TWO world titles after. Also considered one of the greatest to ever lace them up. With the exception of Hagler beat all of them in their prime or pretty close to it. If your not impressed by that your just showing that your a Leonard hater.
Britton was a lightweight when McFarland beat him, and even complained about McFarland's weight advtantage due to McFarland coming in overweight. The Mike Gibbons fight was at 147Ibs, and Owen Moran was a Featherweight.
I thought gibbons was 150 when they fought (just looked it up and packey was 153 and gibbons 152! You are right about Britton being a lightweight who cares about his complaint he was 146 when he fought benny leonard who was 139 did he make not about that then? Yes Moran was a feather , a feather who can destroy bigger guys in the lightweight division (Battling Nelson) good post thought!
I am not a leonard hater I am objective and not a leonard lover like you are . Sugar Ray Leonard is in my top 100 but any top 10 or 20 etc Might be in the top 50 keyword is might!
The Racine Journal-News- 1913 Dec 09 (page 9) BY PACKEY McFARLAND I Knew [sic] I would beat him and I did it fairly. I do not think I was treated right by the crowd. It was my own buiness what I weighed, as the match was made at catch weights. BY JACK BRITTON Packey must have weighed close to 150 pounds. If he makes any wind of weight I can stop him. He ought to be fighting Clabby and Chip. BY EMIL THIRY (Manager of McFarland) Packey only weighed 141 when ge [sic] got on the scales for Mr. Liginger. I know There are rumors that I am to be ousted from the McFarland camp after this fight. I don't anticipate any such treatment. BY DAN MORGAN (Manager of Britton) Packey was a middleweight last night and Britton a lightweight. Jack hold him even. I think that's a wonderful performance. Britton will be lightweight champion if Ritchie will give him a chance.
Great work, Henry! Though with the bar set at 7 HOFers defeated, I would have liked to see Johnny Risko included - the only non-HOFer (as you of course know) to have accomplished this.
The weights on boxrec were unofficial ring weights (in ring costume). The conditions of the fight were making 147. New York Tribune- 1915 Sep 12 (Sporting Section page 2) The men weighed in at 147 pounds at 3 o'clock, making the weight easily, and entering the ring, McFarland weighing 152 pounds, Mike 153.
