1. Joe Louis 2. Jack Dempsey 3. Jimmy McLarnin 4. Mike Tyson 5. Ali 6.George Foreman 7. Harry Greb 8. Larry Holmes 9. Archie Moore 10. Julio Cesar Chavez 11. Joe Frazier 12. Sugar Ray Robinson 13. Lennox Lewis 14. Bob Fitzsimmons 15. Roberto Duran 16. Sonny Liston 17. Evander Holyfield 18. Sam Langford 19. Gene Tunney 20. Jeff Michael 21. Bob Foster 22. Max Baer 23. Kid Gavilan 24. Rocky Marciano 25. Max Schmelling 26. Floyd Patterson 27. Jersey Joe Walcott 28. Jack Sharkey 29. Battling Jim Johnson 30. Ezzard Charles 31. Billy Papke 32. Roy Jones Jr 33. Marvin Hagler 34. Tony Galento 35. Charley Burley
I just realized I never got back to this. But I will try and do so sometime fairly soon. On another note, I'm considering a similar Survey on Most Impressive Stoppage Wins with essentially the same criteria. I also still want to eventually do one on Best Boxing Nicknames and also a longer one about the Greatest Boxers from each decade. Any interested parties out there?
Thanks for the feedback. Going to start the new one sometime in the next week, conceivably tonight. Will have no choice but to push the deadline out until late September, so that will give almost 3 full months for people to participate.
I’m down for stoppages and nicknames. (Planting the seed for some Termite Watkins votes here.) Heck, I’m even down for stoppages that have nicknames, if there are any!
No Mas is the only one I can think of. Which is a shame because other sports usually have cool names for their iconic plays. "The shot", "The hand of God" "The ghost to post", etc, etc. Edit: Forgot about the Phantom Punch