Colin Hart's top 5 all time welterweights.

Nothing really badly wrong there.
Britton
McLarnin
Hearns
Whittaker
Armstrong
Trinidad
DelaHoya
Pacquiao
Mayweather
Gavilan
There's a lot of quality at147lbs!

 

Lewis a bit too high, for me. Borderline top 10 Welter but never top five for me. Given that he hammered a slightly worn but still top-down Ross, made more defences of the true 147 lb title than even any alphabet titlist has made of their belt I'm a little surprised that Hart hasn't got Armstrong in there. He's not quite the head-to-head monster at 147 that he is at 135, but I couldn't leave a guy with that record out of the top five.

Could change any day but I'd probably go 1) Robinson 2) Leonard 3) Armstrong 4) Napoles 5) Gavilan

 

he got the only ko out of their 799 fights, didnt he ?

 

i'd assume he felt to, or was told to try and include a british fighter, but in fairness after the top 3/4 there are a bunch of names to pick from.

 

I think Ray Leonard's overrated there. I suppose it depends on how high you rate Benitez, Hearns and Duran as welters.

 

what's the reasons for having napoles so low Ra's?

 

I think Colin Hart and the rest of you guys are being too hard on the great masters from the 19th century!

Take a look at the all-time top 5 welterweights in the opinion of Tracy Callis... a historian who has spent a lifetime studying the old-timers, and someone who should know what he's talking about:

1 - Sugar Ray Robinson
2 - Nonpareil Jack Dempsey
3 - Kid McCoy
4 - Tommy Ryan
5 - Joe Walcott

 

I'm surprised you read the sun for a start.as for those five, the two rays must be in plus tommy hearns.
The other two I don't know.

 

Ray is one of the finest WW's ever!

 

Yes, but I don't think he did enough to be placed #2 of all-time in that weight class. He won the title in '79, lost it in '80, won it back in '80, and made his last defence in '82 .. and never fought as a WW again. Only 32 fights as a welter, maybe 10 against contenders, total.
Like I said, you'd have to rate Benitez, Duran and Hearns as truly elite ATG welters too, to make that case.

With the competition for places in the WW all-time list being up against some champions who had 100, 200, 300+ fights sometimes mostly at that weight.

 

Surprisingly he went 13-1 against top 10 guys. Which is not insignificant.