1 Archie Moore 2 Sugar Ray Robinson 3 Muhammad Ali 4 Joe Louis 5 Ezzard Charles 6 Harry Greb 7 Floyd Mayweather Jr 8 Carlos Monzon 9 Tony Canzoneri 10 D.Tiger 11 Carlos Ortiz 12 Sam Langford 13 Henry Armstrong 14 Jimmy McLarnin 15 Jimmy Bivins 16 Young Corbett III 17 Emile Griffith 18 Benny Leonard 19 Jose Napoles 20 Rocky Marciano To view this go to http://boxrec.com/records and change the search filter on status from 'Active' to 'All Boxers' and you'll get this list. So what do people think of this one? For me the glaring one is how the hell did the Joy Boy sneak in at number 7 all time P4P? :rofl
Just shows you that pbf is a much better fighter than you haters give him credit for. Ring had him 12th in the top 20 fighters since WW2. PBF is an elite atg haters opinions of him are irrelevant and will be rated accordingly.
I understand that Boxrec uses a mathematical formula, but in the real world it would be hard to argue Archie Moore at #1 when Ezzard Charles, a natural Middleweight, beat him twice at LHW and went on to win the heavyweight championship. I think Charles would make a fine #1, however.
I don't really have any argument with Charles, as I think he definitely belongs on the list. A fighter simply beating another fighter shouldn't be grounds to rank them higher, as many fighters on that list got beat by fighters who were lesser fighters and fighters no even on the list.
To be fair to Charles he lost a lot of his later fights probably through illness. Charles died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, on May 28, 1975. Charles said he first noticed the ailment in 1955. "After a guy hit me, I didn't seem to be able to get away," he recalled. "I didn't have the same coordination." He fought and lost twice to Marciano in 1954.