Top 20 Lightweights of all time

H2H I’d take Sweet Pea over the lot but I’d have to rate Duran and Leonard 1-2 (in that order for me) by any other measure.

Rest assured someone is going to come along and have Loma in this, probably at No. 1.

 

Damn good list!

 

Nothing wrong with this list.
I'd have Hammerin Hank higher, right around
where you have Whitaker, buts that's nitpicking really.

 

There will be many people who will have Leonard at 1 and it is a valid arguement,but i am very much in line with you.Excellent list

 

Based purely on fights contested at LW, allowing for a few lbs over in non title contests:

1. Benny Leonard
2. Joe Gans
3. Roberto Duran
4. Packey McFarland
5. Pernell Whitakker
6. Carlos Ortiz
7. Ike Williams
8. Lou Ambers
9. Freddie Welsh
10. Tony Canzernori
11. Sammy Mandell
12. Joe Brown
13. Sammy Angott
14. Barney Ross
15. Frank Erne
16. Henry Armstrong
17. George Kid Lavigne
18. Bob Montgomery
19. Willie Joyce
20. Beau Jack

 

Contested at LHW? Lol

 

Meant LW. Edited the post. Thanks for pointing it out

 

I'll make a go of it ...

1. Armstrong
2. Leonard
3. Duran
4. McFarland
5. Williams
6. Gans
7. Ross
8. Whitaker
9. Chavez
10. Ortiz
11. Canzoneri
12. Jack
13. Angott
14. Welsh
15. Mayweather
16. Montgomery
17. DeLaHoya
18. Brown
19. Arguello
20. Pacquiao

HM: Ritchie

 

1. Benny Leonard
2. Joe Gans
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Roberto Durán
5. Ike Williams
6. Pernell Whitaker
7. Packey McFarland
8. Carlos Ortiz
9. Julio Cesar Chávez
10. Lou Ambers

Too stacked a class, & my knowledge isn’t deep enough, to draw up 11-20 sufficiently.

 

I’d also favour Pea over anyone at this weight.

 

Hi Guys.
Have not the inclination, or memory, to list 20, don't know how you that do, separate number 14 from 15, baffles me, anyway mine looks like this 1/ Leonard 2/ Duran 3/ Gans 4/ Ortiz 5/ Williams, after them Whittaker, Armstrong, McFarland, Ambers, as you see them.
stay safe fellow posters.