TOP 10 Welterweights of all time

i rather have sweet pea and ketchel over duran

 

Good list, even though I don't agree with Duran in the top 10 over guys such as Barney Ross and Carmen Basillio even though he beat #2 on the list, which makes a hell of a case/

 

i know a lot here rate duran's win over leonard as the best win ever...in that case, duran should be at the top 10 EASILY...he did beat the #2 guy on the list...

as for me, im not that high on duran as a welterweight because leonard set the record straight in the rematch. He outskilled duran into submission

still, duran would make it into the top 20 easily

 

Of the modern era, rough draft:

Ray Robinson
Ray Leonard
Luis Rodriguez
Jose Napoles
Kid Gavilan
Tommy Hearns
Emile Griffith
Carmen Basilio
Charley Burley
Henry Armstrong

 

Its too deep a divison, you can always make a top ten, but it will never be right because this or that fighter was left off. Ross, Gavilan, and others would make a top ten list, but than others top ten fighters would need to be booted off.

 

I would go for something like

1. Ray Robinson
2. Ray Leonard
3. Kid Gavilan
4. Jose Napoles
5. Mickey Walker
6. Emile Griffith
7. Luis Manuel Rodriguez
8. Joe Walcott
9. Charley Burley
10. Carmen Basilio

Armstrong and Hearns just off the top 10

 

Ray Robinson
Jose Napoles
Pipino Cuevas
Henry Armstrong
Roberto Duran
Barney Ross
Jimmy Mclarnin
Carmen Basilio
Ray Leonard
Kid Gavilan

 

I limited this only to fighters I've seen, hence Joe Walcott is left out.

1. Robinson
2. Walker
3. Leonard
4. Hearns
5. Gavilan
6. Napoles
7. Griffith
8. Rodriguez
9. Basilio
10. Armstrong

Then probably...

11. Ross
12. Whitaker
13. Holman Williams

 

Good to see the props for LMR boys.

 

like cobra's list

 

Thanks God I ain't seeing any Trinidad in there !

 

Emile Griffith is top 5 easily