I know this is a bit of a daunting task, but have any of you actually calculated such a list before? Would anyone mind sharing his opinion on this matter?
what I just came up with, it's not exactly ordered, but I grouped each fighter where I think he belongs 1-5: Ray Robinson Sam Langford Harry Greb Ezzard Charles Henry Armstrong 6-11: Roberto Duran Benny Leonard Muhammad Ali Mickey Walker Archie Moore Bob Fitzsimmons 12-19: Willie Pep Ray Leonard Barney Ross Joe Walcott Pernell Whitaker Joe Gans Tony Canzoneri Charley Burley 20-28: Joe Louis Carlos Monzon Gene Tunney Jimmy Wilde Emile Griffith Kid Gavilan Ike Williams Jimmy McLarnin Sandy Saddler 29-36: Alexis Arguello Jose Napoles Julio Cesar Chavez Eder Jofre Carlos Ortiz Ruben Olivares Roy Jones Luis Manuel Rodriguez 37-50: Evander Holyfield Marvin Hagler Tommy Hearns Manny Pacquiao Bernard Hopkins Stanley Ketchel Holman Williams Michael Spinks Fighting Harada Lloyd Marshall Ted "Kid" Lewis Floyd Mayweather Lennox Lewis Jack Britton And there's several others who could be argued in for the top 50, guys like Marciano, Sanchez, Tiger, etc. Yeah, it's hard to do.
1. Sugar Ray Robinson 2. Henry Armstrong 3. Muhammad Ali 4. Joe Louis 5. Sam Langford 6. Harry Greb 7. Ezzard Charles 8. Willie Pep 9. Roberto Duran 10. Archie Moore 11. Benny Leonard 12. Ray Leonard 13. Pernell Whitaker 14. Bob Fitzsimmons 15. Joe Gans 16. Carlos Monzon 17. Barney Ross 18. Jack Johnson 19. Marvin Hagler 20. Jimmy Wilde 21. Mickey Walker 22. Sandy Saddler 23. Manny Pacquiao 24. Julio Cesar Chavez 25. Alexis Arguello 26. Rocky Marciano 27. Gene Tunney 28. Roy Jones Jr 29. Lennox Lewis 30. Evander Holyfield 31. Bernard Hopkins 32. Jack Dempsey 33. Eder Jofre 34. Tony Canzoneri 35. Emile Griffith 36. Barbados Joe Walcott 37. Kid Gavilan 38. Salvador Sanchez 39. Ike Williams 40. Charley Burley 41. Larry Holmes 42. Floyd Mayweather Jr 43. Thomas Hearns 44. Jimmy McLarnin 45. Stanley Ketchel 46. Tommy Loughran 47. Michael Spinks 48. Ruben Olivares 49. Jose Napoles 50. Fighting Harada
Charley Burley below Bernard Hopkins? Barbados Joe Walcott below Lennox Lewis? Louis above Langford? No Holman Williams?
hopkins and louis are timeless...hopkins being the best 40+ years old ever...the barometer for every old man is compared in future generation....louis had the most dominant reign in the richest division in boxing history...louis deserve to be in the top 7...but i have no problem having sam langford in the top 1...
Nice list Dinamita. I think Ross, McLarnin, and Canzoneri should be ranked pretty much side by side, as well as Emile Griffith and Luis Rodriguez. McLarnin'ss resume is among the top 10 resumes in the sport's history IMHO, and Rodriguez could've just as easily gone 3-1 with Griffith their series was so close, and what we have of their series on film indicates that maybe that should've been the case.
Legit reason. I haven't seen all of the footage for Griffith-Rodriguez to judge, so I'm just going by the official verdicts. McLarnin should probably be closer to Ross and Canzoneri though.
Saddler's a bit too low. Lennox Lewis doesn't deserve to be a top 100 list. I don't care if he beat Bowe, a prime Tyson and so on. Dude was 6'6 and 250 ****ing pounds.
Is that Magoo's wife after Suzie insulted her in your avatar? I'm terrible! :tong Trying to lighten the tension around here lately.
So? I'm not going to penalize him for being too big in a division that has no size limit. He's got one of the better resume in the history of his division, beat everyone he ever fought, was dominant, and rates about as highly H2H as anyone else in his weight class. Also, a good amount of his opponents weren't much smaller than he was. Not including him doesn't make sense.