Smitty Son's Top 20 All Time Fighters List *Forgive the Length*

I think that's one of the young Sam Langfords....that picture is much too recent.

Still though, a excellent list. Nice to see a little written about each fighter to back up your list too.

 

Very good. I do think Charles is a tad high, and Loughran should not make the cut in the top 20, but outside of that I pretty much agree.

 

Top notch list. One of the best lists, if not the best list I've ever seen.

 

Great list smitty...interesting call with Fitz, I like it.

 

Tunney and Loughran are 2 high imo.

No that ant Sam Langford.

Or least not THEE Sam Langford.

 

That picture is not THE immortal Sam Langford , but probably a namesake ,as noted with the initials SL on his trunks...I have seen this picture before, but forgot where....

 

For a first effort, that is an absoluetly wonderful list. Pretty much evevryone who should be on the list is on the list, and though I might dispute a few of the placements, and assume a margin of error of a few spots, on the whole that's an amazing effort

 

That aint Sam Langford in the picture but that is a superb, well-thought list (even if RRL is too high). Bravo! Well done.

 

bias against modern fighters

Hagler was p4p king for almost 5 years
Armstrong suffered big losses in his prime while pac has yet to lose big fights in his prime. It is criminal to rank armstrong 20 spots above pacquiao

Monzon is easily top 20. There is no way you can ranked saddler over arguello

 

I could spend a whole day explaining why Armstrong is where he is, and much higher that Pacquiao but....there's really no points with you.

 

Asero, man, it's criminal to think it's criminal he's ranked far above Pacquiao.

 

armstrong may have accomplished more but please not 20 spots higher

 

charles should be above ruby bob and tunney shouldn't be anywhere near it.

 

But see, Armstrong has as good a claim as any man who ever laced them up to be called the number 1. He's gonna be well above Pac probably no matter what. The claim that Pac never lost in his prime...He's not done fighting yet for starters on that argument. Nobody on his recent streak can say that he's even begun to slide for certain. So, we can't conclude he won't lose in his prime if you're that invested in that part of your argument.

 

A good list.

I think better of the Tommy Loughran call than some here do.

Some fighters I would have liked to have seen considered are George Dixon, Barbados Joe Walcott, Terry McGovern and a few others.