Thomas Hearns First Tier: Pipino Cuevas Felix Trinidad Jose Luis Lopez Joe Walcott Sugar Ray Robinson Second Tier: Jose Napoles (like Robinson, his skill-set obscures the fact that he could really crack at this weight) Lou Broullaird Henry Armstrong (scored a whole bunch of kayos at the weight, even when he was just about done.) Virgil Aikens Tony DeMarco Colin Jones Donald Curry Simon Brown Sugar Ray Leonard
Yeah, in accordance with previous comments, Ray Robinson is being severely underrated here! He's probably just as hard a puncher as Hearns, Cuevas etc but due to the fact he's not known as a 'pure puncher' (although he could do it all, swinging away being one of them!) he's almost being forgotten here!
It wasnt at welterweight, but what Robinson did to Fulmer should provoke a lot of consideration and thought here. I just looked at this thread and was astonished that The Barbados Demon wasnt mentioned until the fourth page. Anyhow, i will likely pick Hearns, on the substantial evidence i have to. By the way, on a different note, greatest finisher the division ever saw was Trinidad imo, i havent seen enough finishing ability on film of Robinson at welterweight for obvious reasons, but from the overall footage of him, he is criminally underrated in that department, not mentioned anywhere near enough, considering he was one of the finest.
Not sure about Joe Walcott but anyway... Top 5: 1. Thomas Hearns 2. Pipino Cuevas 3. Felix Trinidad 4. Sugar Ray Robinson 5. Sugar Ray Leonard These are others in no particular order: - Jose Napoles - Simon Brown - Lucas Matthyse - Donald Curry - Ruslan Provodnikov - Tony DeMarco - Ike Quartey - Marcos Maidana - Jose Luis Lopez - Mark Breland - Miguel Cotto - Victor Ortiz - Keith Thurman
Hearns a harder hitter then Robinson? Not a chance in my opinion. For my money I would say Burley could hit harder then Hearn's too.
My list: 1. Thomas Hearns 2. Sugar Ray Robinson 3. Felix Trinidad 4. Pipino Cuevas 5. Miguel Cotto 6. Colin Jones 7. Simon Brown 8. Jose Luis Lopez 9. Shane Mosley 10. Tony DeMarco
Not overly sold on Mosley as top 10. He didn't get that much done there power wise and I'm not sure i'd have him ahead of the likes of Duran, Oscar and Quartey among others. He packed a fine wallop at 135.
