Just did my 1910s list. I'll start to do more than 10 once we get to the 1930s. It's honestly incredible how much some of these guys just did a year let alone an entire decade. It makes making the lists for the early decades kinda overwhelming. Which is why I'm only doing 10. I couldn't tell you who was greater between the bantamweight trio of the 1910s to save my life. So I won't.
Less than a week for the 1910s deadline, which is March 12. The 1920s Deadline is March 26. Other deadlines coming soon.
Sorry i missed the first two rounds but here is my top ten of the 1910s 1 Harry Greb 2 Sam Langford 3 Jack Johnson 4 Tommy Gibbons 5 Packey McFarland 6 Jimmy Wilde 7 Benny Leonard 8 Mike Gibbons 9 Harry Wills 10 Ted Kid Lewis
Didn't arrived on time for the first 2 surveys (1890's and 1900's) but I'll give my list for those 2 decades nonetheless, along with all the other's. I. 1890's 1: Bob Fitzsimmons 2: George Dixon 3: Tommy Ryan 4: James J. Corbett 5: Mysterious Billy Smith 6: Young Griffo 7: Jack Mcauliffe 8: Oscar Gardner 9: Solly Smith 10: Joe Goddard 11: Charles Kid McCoy 12: George Kid Lavigne 13: Joe Choynski 14: Jimmy Barry 15: Torpedo Billy Murphy 16: Nonpareil Jack Dempsey 17: Barbados Joe Walcott 18: James J. Jeffries 19: Joe Gans 20: John L. Sullivan 21: Peter Jackson 22: Terry McGovern 23: Frank Craig 24: Dan Creedon 25: Owen Ziegler II. 1900's 1: Jack Johnson 2: Abe Attell 3: Joe Gans 4: Sam Langford 5: Philadelphia Jack O'Brien 6: Barbados Joe Walcott 7: Young Corbett II 8: Harry Lewis 9: Battling Nelson 10: Harry Forbes 11: George Gardner 12: Stanley Ketchel 13: James J. Jeffries 14: Willie Lewis 15: Jack Blackburn 16: Rube Ferns 17: Terry McGovern 18: Tommy Burns 19: Tommy Ryan 20: Freddie Welsh 21: Matty Matthews 22: Honey Mellody 23: Frank Erne 24: Joe Jeanette 25: Jimmy Gardner III. 1910s 1: Sam Langford 2: Harry Greb 3: Jack Britton 4: Ted Kid Lewis 5: Johnny Dundee 6:Benny Leonard 7: Jack Dillon 8: Battling Levinsky 9: Harry Wills 10:Freddie Welsh 11: Leo Hauck 12: Joe Jeanette 13: Packey McFarland 14: Mike Gibbons 15: Kid Norfolk 16: Billy Miske 17: Tommy Gibbons 18: Sam McVea 19: Lew Tendler 20: Mike O'Dowd 21: Jimmy Wilde 22: George Chip 23: Les Darcy 24: Johnny Kilbane 25: Ad Wolgast IV. 1920s 1: Harry Greb 2: Tommy Loughran 3: Maxie Rosenbloom 4: Benny Leonard 5: Mickey Walker 6: Sammy Mandell 7: Tiger Flowers 8: Jimmy Slatttery 9: Dave Shade 10: Jack Delaney 11: Pete Latzo 12: Jimmy McLarnin 13: Jackie Fields 14: Joe Glick 15: Joe Dundee 16: Young Stribling 17: Kid Norfolk 18: Benny Bass 19: Mike McTigue 20: Gene Tunney 21: Fidel La Barba 22: "Bud" Taylor 23: Jack Dempsey 24: Pancho Villa 25: Len Harvey V. 1930s 1: Henry Armstrong 2: Tony Canzoneri 3: Joe Louis 4: Maxie Rosenbloom 5: Lou Ambers 6: Barney Ross 7: Freddie Miller 8: Freddie Steele 9: Panama Al Brown 10: John Henry Lewis 11: Fred Apostoli 12: Marcel Thil 13: Vince Dundee 14: Teddy Yarosz 15: Jimmy McLarnin 16: Battling Battalino 17: Kid Chocolate 18: Lou Brouillard 19: Billy Petrolle 20: Tiger Jack Fox 21: Young Corbett III 22: Ceferino Garcia 23: Peter Kane 24: Midget Wolgast 25: Kid Azteca VI. 1940s 1: Sugar Ray Robinson 2: Willie Pep 3: Ike Williams 4: Ezzard Charles 5: Holman Williams 6: Bob Montgomery 7: Joe Louis 8: Jimmy Bivins 9: Charley Burley 10: Henry Armstrong 11: Archie Moore 12: Beau Jack 13: Chalky Wright 14: Sandy Saddler 15: Jake LaMotta 16: Bert Lytell 17: Kid Gavilan 18: Manuel Ortiz 19: Lloyd Marshall 20: Sammy Angott 21: Tony Zale 22: Gus Lesnevich 23: Eddie Booker 24: Tami Mauriello 25: Fritzie Zivic VII. 1950s 1: Archie Moore 2: Sugar Ray Robinson 3: Carmen Basilio 4: Rocky Marciano 5: Kid Gavilan 6: Gene Fullmer 7: Joe Brown 8: Jimmy Carter 9: Carl Bobo Olson 10: Duilio Loi 11: Sandy Saddler 12: Kenny Lane 13: Davey Moore 14: Don Jordan 15: Carlos Ortiz 16: Joey Giardello 17: Floyd Patterson 18: Charles Humez 19: Hogan Kid Bassey 20: Wallace Bud Smith 21: Ezzard Charles 22: Pascual Pérez 23: Gaspar Ortega 24: Tony DeMarco 25: Harold Johnson VIII. 1960s 1: Emile Griffith 2: Muhammad Ali 3: Luis Rodriguez 4: Carlos Ortiz 5: Dick Tiger 6: José Nápoles 7: Nino Benvenutti 8: Gabriel Elorde 9: Ismael Laguna 10: Curtis Cokes 11: Fighting Harada 12: Éder Jofre 13: Nicolino Locche 14: Eddie Perkins 15: Davey Moore 16: Benny Kid Paret 17: Vicente Saldivar 18: Joey Giardello 19: Willie Pastrano 20: Floyd Patterson 21: Sugar Ramos 22: Gene Fullmer 23: Lionel Rose 24: Bob Foster 25: Sonny Liston IX 1970s 1: Muhammad Ali 2: Carlos Monzón 3: José Nápoles 4: Roberto Durán 5: Alexis Arguello 6: António Cervantes 7: Bob Foster 8: George Foreman 9: Danny Lopez 10: Wilfredo Gómez 11: Miguel Canto 12: Bruno Arcari 13: Carlos Palomino 14: Wilfred Benitez 15: Victor Galíndez 16: Larry Holmes 17: Ken Buchanan 18: Carlos Zárate 19: Pipino Cuevas 20: Joe Frazier 21: Ayub Kalule 22: Kuniaki Shibata 23: Ken Norton 24: Sugar Ray Leonard 25: Rúben Olivares X. 1980s 1: Marvin Hagler 2: Michael Spinks 3: Thomas Hearns 4: Mike Tyson 5: Sugar Ray Leonard 6: Larry Holmes 7: Julio César Chávez 8: Santos Laciar 9: Donald Curry 10: Salvador Sánchez 11: Azumah Nelson 12: Hector Camacho 13: Michael Nunn 14: Evander Holyfield 15: Roberto Durán 16: Aaron Pryor 17: Mike McCallum 18: Milton McCory 19: Dwight Muhammad Qawi 20: Virgil Hill 21: Wilfredo Gómez 22: Jeff Fenech 23: Alexis Arguello 24: Jeff Chandler 25: Lloyd Honeyghan XI. 1990s 1: Pernell Whitaker 2: Roy Jones Jr. 3: Oscar De La Hoya 4: Evander Holyfield 5: Félix Trinidad 6: James Toney 7: Julio César Chávez 8: Terry Norris 9: Ricardo López 10: Lennox Lewis 11: Naseem Hamed 12: Miguel Ángel González 13: Michael Nunn 14: Luisito Espinosa 15: Riddick Bowe 16: Erik Morales 17: Fernando Vargas 18: Johnny Tapia 19: Virgil Hill 20: Orlando Canizales 21: Sung Kil Moon 22: Saman Sorjatorung 23: Dariusz Michalczewski 24: Shane Mosley 25: Junior Jones XII. 2000s 1: Manny Pacquiao 2: Floyd Mayweather Jr. 3: Bernard Hopkins 4: Shane Mosley 5: Marco Antonio Barrera 6: Joe Calzaghe 7: Wladimir Klitschko 8: Roy Jones Jr. 9: Miguel Cotto 10: Lennox Lewis 11: Juan Manuel Márquez 12: Kostya Tszyu 13: Diego Corrales 14: Erik Morales 15: Cory Spinks 16: Zab Judah 17: "Winky" Wright 18: Kelly Pavlik 19: Antonio Tarver 20: Vitali Klitschko 21: José Luis Castillo 22: Ricky Hatton 23: Antonio Margarito 24: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam 25: Timothy Bradley XIII. 2010s 1: Floyd Mayweather Jr. 2: Manny Pacquiao 3: Román González 4: "Canelo" Álvarez 5: Andre Ward 6: Vasiliy Lomachenko 7: Gennady Golovkin 8: Wladimir Klitschko 9: Oleksandr Usyk 10: Sergey Kovalev 11: Terrence Crawford 12: Naoya Inoue 13: Sergio Martínez 14: Nonito Donaire 15: Anthony Joshua 16: Danny Garcia 17: Guillermo Rigondeaux 18: Timothy Bradley 19: Carl Froch 20: Juan Manuel Márquez 21: Tyson Fury 22: Mikey Garcia 23: Juan Francisco Estrada 24: Yuriorkis Gamboa 25: Miguel Cotto Peace
I like this list Noel. All of my top 7 appear in your top 8. 8 of your top 10 appear in mine. You have Wills at 9 & me at 12, so no big difference there. The only big difference is Jack Johnson, who was my #4 in the 1900's, doesn't appear in my 25. For me his 12-1-1 record, with only a few of those wins notable, wasn't enough. I think the 1910's was one of the strongest decades, possibly only 2nd to the 40's. The fact that Freddie Welsh, Johnny Kilbane, Pal Moore, Pete Herman, Kid Williams, Jack Dempsey nor Kid Norfolk appear in either of our top 10's, is testamount to this, imo.
Thanks Greg.I have to admit i am a big fan of Johnson and i get critcised many times for ranking him so highly and that i understand but i am happy with my choice.I pondered for many hours over this top 10 because as you rightly point out there are so many great fighters to consider
Me too. I rank Johnson #6 all time at HW & as mentioned had him #4 in the 1900's. It's just I feel it was that decade, rather than the 1910's, when he was at his best & where he did his best work. That's just my view, the important thing, of course, is that you're happy with your list, and like I say, it's a list I like. I particularly like your inclusions of McFarland & T. Gibbons. McFarland was 48-0-3 in the decade & was considered to be on the better end of at least one of those draws, vs Freddie Welsh. He beat my #5 all time WW Jack Britton x 2 & my #6 all time MW Mike Gibbons during the 1910's, as well as Jimmy Duffy, Matt Wells, the brilliant Owen Moran, Dick Hyland, Tommy Murphy x 3 and Young Erne x 2. Amazing record. Tommy Gibbons went 47-0-2 & beat Harry Greb (no less!), the 15lbs heavier Battling Levinsky, Billy Miske x 2, Willie Brennan, Buck Grouse, Gus Christie x 4, George Chip x 5, Clay Turner x 2 and Bob Moha. That really is an extradorinary record.
Take your time. The next deadline is March 26, and then it will be 2 a month going forward. That said (and this goes for everyone), it's NEVER too early to get in other decades that are a couple of months away. My guess is this will ultimately wrap in September.
2000’s: 1. Manny Pacquiao 2. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 3. Bernard Hopkins 4. Shane Mosley 5. Erik Morales 6. Juan Manuel Marquez 7. Marco Antonio Barrera 8. Joe Calzaghe 9. Winky Wright 10. Rafael Marquez 2010’s: 1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 2. Andre Ward 3. Canelo Alvarez 4. Manny Pacquiao 5. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez 6. Gennady Golovkin 7. Timothy Bradley 8. Oleksandr Usyk 9. Terence Crawford 10. Tyson Fury
1910s Benny Leonard Packey McFarland Jimmy Wilde Sam Langford Jack Johnson Jack Dempsey Jack Britton Ted Kid Lewis Harry Wills Jeremiah “Joe” Jeannette Barney Lebrowitz (Battling Levinsky) Johnny Dundee Johnny Kilbane Les Darcy Sam McVey Freddie Welsh Georges Carpentier Eugene Criqui Pete Herman Mike Gibbons
Welcome to the forum. Did you consider including Harry Greb &/or Tommy Gibbons? I like your high rankings of McFarland & Wilde.
1920s Benny Leonard Harry Greb Tommy Loughran Jack Dempsey Mickey Walker Gene Tunney Jack Britton Poncho Villa Lew Tendler Harry Wills Johnny Dundee Louis “Kid” Kaplan Charles Bernard “Bud” Taylor Jimmy McLarnin
