Boxing News ranks the 100 greatest fighters

I would like to see a list, where rather than asking experts to rate their top 10/20/50/100 fighters in order, they just give a list of who they think is the greatest 20/25 fighters ever. Then a placing can be compiled on the number of times a said fighter is recognized on the list: e.g. Robinson is #1 because he is recognized 100 times out of 100; Greb is #2 because he recognized 98 times out of a hundred.

Any ties can be broken by asking people to rate who was better in their opinion in a second round of voting: e.g. because Greb and Armstrong were recognized 98 times; Greb tops Armstrong because 52 of the 100 people recognized Greb as better.

 

Swap Pep with Louis & thats my own top 4

 

i read most of it on the bus just now. didn't really need the numbers, has some good descriptions and photos and is pretty interesting.

 

what a crap list i am 15 and i could do a more good list

 

Sure i can find plenty to disagree with(being a loose cannon elitist) but it looks like a good enough entry level top 100 to get the more current era orientated fan(which is what the magazine is mainly for, being a news supplement) interested in notable older fighters.

Also good to see the UK scene's journos still have their love affair with the old Thai Tyson going strong.

 

Ezzard Charles at 26? Travesty

 

Just done a quick list, using the research Rumsfeld collected and my suggestion of rating fighters:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=11083374&posted=1#post110

Classic Boxing Forum's top 20 all time fighters of October 2011:

20: Hearns (30)
19: Ross (39)
18: Gans (22)
17: Walker (29)
16: Jones Jr (36)
15: Burley (64)
14: Whitaker (23)
13: Moore (10)
12: Leonard R. (5)
11: Louis (4)
10: Fitzsimmons (73)
9: Leonard B. (11)
8: Pep (9)
7: Ali (2)
6: Charles (26)
5: Langford (15)
4: Duran (6)
3: Greb (7)
2: Armstrong (3)
1: Robinson (1)

The numbers in brackets are the fighters placing according to Boxing News.

 

Benny Leonard extremely underrated......

 

Surprisingly, Jem Driscoll is not on the list.

 

this i am agreeing with on you

 

Barbados Joe Walcott isn't there either

I was working at Boxing News while this was going on. it was my job to go thru their archives to get the pictures, which seems to have gone down rather well.

Unfortunately, they didn't take my advice on Fitzsimmons (who should be top 10), Charles (top 5), Langford (top 5), as well as Bivins, Joe Walcott, Packey, or Fighting Harada who are all excluded

 

prince nazeem hamed should be in on the bottom 10 of top 100 listings he was great now all the hate everyone underate

 

it comes with its own talking points, should henry armstrong be over ali, are slr or greb too high, and should walcott, galindez, trinidad or mcfarland be on it.

 

Leonard's ranking was absurd.. way too high
Lanford's ranking was absurd... way too low
Whitaker was also too low
Ali too high
Hagler too high
Charles too low


Those are what struck me initially