P4P top 10 of the 80's/ 90's/ 00's

. . . . . . . . Well this topic didn't get anywhere now did it?

 

1980
KO Magazine (January)
1 - Roberto Duran
2 - Sugar Ray Leonard
3 - Wilfredo Gomez
4 - Danny Lopez
5 - Pipino Cuevas
6 - Alexis Arguello
7 - Larry Holmes
8 - Wilfred Benitez
9 - Vito Antuofermo/Matt Saad Muhammad (tie)



1981
KO Magazine (January)
1 - Thomas Hearns
2 - Sugar Ray Leonard
3 - Marvin Hagler
4 - Larry Holmes
5 - Alexis Arguello
6 - Wilfredo Gomez
7 - Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
8 - Matt Saad Muhammmad
9 - Wilfred Benitez
10 - Roberto Duran/Aaron Pryor (tie)


1982
KO Magazine
1. Sugar Ray Leonard
2. Alexis Arguello
3. Marvin Hagler
4. Salvador Sanchez
5. Wilfred Benitez
6. Larry Holmes
7. Jeff Chandler
8. Eusebio Pedroza
9. Aaron Pryor
10. Thomas Hearns/Dwight Braxton* (tie)

*Dwight Muhammad Qawi


1983
KO Magazine
1. Marvin Hagler
2. Aaron Pryor
3. Larry Holmes
4. Michael Spinks
5. Jeff Chandler
6. Thomas Hearns
7. Alexis Arguello
8. Wilfredo Gomez
9. Hector Camacho
10. Eusebio Pedroza


1984
KO Magazine
1. Marvin Hagler
2. Aaron Pryor
3. Larry Holmes
4. Eusebio Pedroza
5. Hector Camacho
6. Ray Leonard
6. Jeff Chandler
8. Michael Spinks
9. Thomas Hearns
10. Donald Curry


1985
KO Magazine
1. Marvin Hagler
2. Hector Camacho
3. Michael Spinks
4. Donald Curry
5. Thomas Hearns
6. Barry McGuigan
7. Milton McCrory
8. Julio Cesar Chavez
8. Pinklon Thomas
10. Larry Holmes


1986
KO Magazine
1. Marvin Hagler
2. Mike Tyson
3. Donald Curry
4. Thomas Hearns
5. Edwin Rosario
6. Azumah Nelson
6. Michael Spinks
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Julio Cesar Chavez
10. Hector Camacho


1988
KO Magazine
1. Mike Tyson
2. Julio Cesar Chavez
3. Evander Holyfield
4. Ray Leonard
5. Jeff Fenech
6. Michael Nunn
7. Azumah Nelson
8. Jung Koo Chang
9. Buddy McGirt
10. Sumbu Kalambay


1989
1. Mike Tyson
2. Julio Cesar Chavez
3. Pernell Whitaker
4. Michael Nunn
5. Antonio Esparragoza
6. Meldrick Taylor
7. Azumah Nelson
8. Raul Perez
9. Virgil Hill
10. Marlon Starling

 

No Duran??? Hearns??? Tyson over Lewis???

I'll go for:-

1) Leonard
2) Pea
3) JCC
4) Hearns
5) Hagler
6) RJJ
7) Duran (Hard to have him this low, but lots of his best work was pre 1980)
8) Pac
9) Spinks
10) Lewis (I doubt this will be popular)

 

1. Leonard
2. Whitaker
3. Hagler
4. JCC
5. Pacquiao
6. Jones Jr
7. Hearns
8. Duran
9. Mayweather Jr
10. Holyfield

 

Pea
Hagler
Chavez
Duran (some of resume before 80!)
Hopkins
Jones
Pac
Hearns
Holyfield (CW AND HW)
Lewis

There are many more can't be bothered to go into it!

 

No Sugar Ray!?!?!?!

 

I totally overlooked Holyfield...this is tough.

I feel like De La Hoya deserves a spot for all the big fights he's given us...he just tends to lose a lot of them!!!!

 

nope, no Sugar Ray, bar Hearns and Benitez there aint much there. IMO he waited for the right time, just a slightly ballsier version of Floyd JR

 

Out of interest...where do you have him all time??

 

about 18th in my all-time list

 

Where do you place Floyd then?

 

Just a quick question, thanks for asero for those lists, I've never seen them, but why is Pinklon Thomas #9 in 1985, ahead of Larry Holmes?