30s: Welterweight 40s: Middleweight 50s: Middleweight 60s: Light Heavyweight 70s: Heavyweight 80s: Middleweight, Lightweight or Bantamweight. tough one. 90s: Heavyweight 00s: Lightweight 10s: Welterweight, Light Heavyweight or Cruiserweight
20s: Light Heavyweight (Greb, Tunney, Gibbons, Rosenbloom, Loughran) 30s: Lightweight (Canzoneri, Ambers, Armstrong, McLarnin, Petrolle) 40s: Light Heavyweight (Charles, Moore, Maxim, Johnson, Bivins, Conn, Lesnevich) 50s: Middleweight (Robinson, LaMotta, Turpin, Olson, Fullmer, Basilio, Pender) 60s: Bantamweight (Jofre, Harada, Medel, Rose, C. Castillo, Caraballo, Olivares) 70s: Heavyweight (Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Holmes, Lyle, Shavers) 80s: Welterweight (Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Cuevas, Curry, Starling, Honeyghan) 90s: Heavyweight (Holyfield, Lewis, Foreman, Bowe, Tyson, Moorer, Holmes) 00s: Super Featherweight (Mayweather, Corrales, Pacquiao, Marquez, Barrera, Morales, Casamayor, Freitas) 10s: Super Flyweight (Sor Rungvisai, Gonzalez, Estrada, Cuadras, Inoue, Narvaez, Ioka, Nietes, Arce) 20s (still ongoing): Lightweight (Kambosos, Lomachenko, T. Lopez, Haney, etc.) If you want to know the rationale of why I chose a certain weight class to represent the best of the decade for boxing, read the names within the parentheses and you'll know why or otherwise, feel free to ask.
