I will try, decade by decade, starting with the 1920's 1---Harry Greb 2---Benny Leonard 3---Gene Tunney 4---Mickey Walker 5---Harry Wills 6---Tommy Loughran 7---Kid Chocolate 8---Jack Dempsey 9---Jack Delaney 10-Paul Berlenbach
Here is my list for the 1950's 1---Rocky Marciano 2---Archie Moore 3---Sugar Ray Robinson 4---Pascual Perez 5---Kid Gavilan 6---Sandy Saddler 7---Carmen Basilio 8---Gene Fullmer 9---Joe Brown 10-Harold Johnson
My list for the 1940's 1---Sugar Ray Robinson 2---Joe Louis 3---Willie Pep 4---Ezzard Charles 5---Ike Williams 6---Billy Conn 7---Manuel Ortiz 8---Jimmy Bivins 9---Jake LaMotta 10-Marcel Cerdan
My list for the 1930's 1---Joe Louis 2---Henry Armstrong 3---Jimmy McLarnin 4---Barney Ross 5---Tony Canzoneri 6---Teddy Yarosz 7---Max Schmeling 8---John Henry Lewis 9---Freddie Steele 10-Young Corbett III
My list for the 1890's 1---Bob Fitzsimmons 2---Tommy Ryan 3---George Dixon 4---Jack McAuliffe 5---Peter Jackson 6---Kid McCoy 7---Jim Corbett 8---Kid Lavigne 9---Mysterious Billy Smith 10-Tommy West
my list for the 1900's 1---Joe Gans 2---Jack Johnson 3---Jim Jeffries 4---Terry McGovern 5---Packey McFarland 6---Joe Walcott 7---Sam Langford 8---Abe Attell 9---Stanley Ketchel 10-Tommy Burns
My list for the 1910's 1---Sam Langford 2---Jimmy Wilde 3---Mike Gibbons 4---Jack Dillon 5---Johnny Kilbane 6---Jack Britton 7---Mike O'Dowd 8---Kid Norfolk 9---Frank Klaus 10-Joe Jeannette
I might not be able to do every decade. This is turning out to be way harder than I thought it was. I'll try to 1910s and maybe more tomorrow. I know that it will get way easier once I get to the 1940's and onwards.
Unfortunately I am going to undoubtedly need to push the deadline back at least several weeks, if not a month. My early 2023 is going to be far busier than I anticipated, so I intend to keep the Survey open until I know I have ample time to properly dig in and get it underway. In fact, right now, I'm thinking I may revert to tiered deadlines. Where the 1890s will close 1st, but I'll keep the other decades open until I am ready to go through them individually. But I'm still considering possibilities. At the very least, the current deadline will undoubtedly be pushed forward, and during that time I'm hoping new submissions continue to roll in.
Hello to all - I tried my best and certainly don't know it all but I have always loved boxing and the history/mystery/legends of the game. Look forward to seeing the end result. Thank you Rummy for re-igniting my passion for boxing history with your awesome videos! Joe My Rankings (for what they are worth ;^) III. 1910s 1. Jack Johnson 2. Sam Langford 3. Benny Leonard 4. Jimmy Wild 5. Harry Wills 6. Harry Greb 7. Packey McFarland 8. Jack Britton 9. Johnny Dundee 10. Billy Miske IV. 1920s 1. Harry Greb 2. Gene Tunney 3. Benny Leonard 4. Tiger Flowers 5. Jack Dempsey 6. Harry Wills 7. Pancho Villa 8. Tommy Loughran 9. Mickey Walker 10. Young Stribling 11. Maxie Rosenbloom 12. Battling Levinsky 13. George Carpentier 14. Tommy Gibbons 15. Billy Miske 16. Jack Sharkey 17. Cuban Bobby Brown 18. Johnny Dundee 19. Rocky Kansas 20. George KO Chaney V. 1930s 1. Henry Armstrong 2. Joe Louis 3. Barney Ross 4. Tony Canzoneri 5. John Henry Lewis 6. Marcel Thil 7. Barney Ross 8. Ceferino Garcia 9. Max Schmeling 10. Max Baer 11. Lou Ambers 12. Kid Chocolate 13. Panama Al Brown 14. Joe Gans 15. Mickey Walker 16. Young Peter Jackson 17. Fidel LaBarba 18. Maxie Rosenbloom 19. Sixto Escobar 20. Midget Wolgast VI. 1940s 1. Joe Louis 2. Sugar Ray Robinson 3. Henry Armstrong 4. Willie Pep 5. Jake LaMotta 6. Charley Burley 7. Beau Jack 8. Manuel Ortiz 9. Jimmy Bivins 10. Tony Zale 11. Chalky Wright 12. Jackie Patterson 13. Ike Williams 14. Sandy Sadler 15. Billy Conn 16. Ezzard Charles 17. Freddie Mills 18. Marcel Cerdan 19. Rocky Graziano 20. Bob Montgomery 21. Joey Maxim 22. Sammy Angot 23.Tommy Bell 24. Fritzie Zivic 25. Phil Terranova VII. 1950s 1. Sugar Ray Robinson 2. Pascual Perez 3. Archie Moore 4. Rocky Marciano 5. Carmen Basilio 6. Sandy Sadler 7. Kid Gavilan 8. Jimmy Carter 9. Jersey Joe Walcott 10. Joey Giardello 11. Ezzard Charles 12. Gene Fullmer 13. Harold Johnson 14. Joe Brown 15. Floyd Patterson 16. Battling Torres 17. Sonny Liston 18. Billy Graham 19. Willie Pastrano 20. Davey Moore 21. Joey Maxim 22. Art Aragon 23. Eddie Machen 24. Johnny Saxton 25. Ingemar Johansson VIII. 1960s 1.Muhammad Ali 2. Sonny Liston 3. Harold Johnson 4. Joe Frazier 5. Archie Moore 6. Emile Griffith 7. Curtis Cokes 8. Sugar Ramos 9. Floyd Patterson 10. Jose Torres 11. Cleveland Williams 12. Gene Fullmer 13. Dick Tiger 14. Joe Giardello 15. Jose Napoles 16. Joe Brown 17. Sugar Ray Robinson 18. Willie Pastrano 19. Nino Benevenutti 20. Fighting Harada 21. Carlos Ortiz 22. Doug Jones 23. Nicolino Locche 24. Ernie Terrell 25. Ismael Laguna IX 1970s 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Roberto Duran 3. Carlos Zarate 4. Jose Napoles 5. Carlos Monzon 6. George Foreman 7. Alexis Arguello 8. Wilfredo Gomez 9. Wilfred Benetiz 10. Marvin Hagler 11. Sammy Serrano 12. Esteban De Jesus 13. Matthew Saad Muhammad 14. Joe Frazier 15. Bob Foster 16. Antonio Cervantes 17. Miguel Canto 18. Carlos Palamino 19. Victor Galindez 20. Lupe Pintor 21. Pipino Cuevas 22. Dally "Little Red" Lopez 23. Ed Jofre 24. Ken Norton 25. John Conteh X. 1980s 1. Larry Holmes 2. Marvin Hagler 3. Sugar Ray Leonard 4. Thomas Hearns 5. Mike Tyson 6. Julio Caesar Chavez 7. Aaron Pryor 8. Michael Spinks 9. Evander Holyfield 10. Salvador Sanchez 11. Dwight Muhammad Qawi 12. Hector Camacho 13. Mike McCallum 14. Roberto Duran 15. Pernell Whitaker 16. John Mugabi 17. Livingston Bramble 18. Donald Curry 19. Wilfredo Gomez 20. Meldrick Taylor 21. Eusebio Pedroza 22. Jeff Fenech 23. Azumah Nelson 24. Virgil Hill 25. Marlon Starling XI. 1990s 1. Roy Jones Jr 2. Ricardo Lopez 3. Khaosai Galaxy 4. Oscar DeLahoya 5. Pernell Whitaker 6. Julio Caesar Chavez 7. Lennox Lewis 8. James Toney 9. Terry Norris 10. Riddick Bowe 11. Michael Carbajal 12. Felix Trinidad 13. Evander Holyfield 14. Meldrick Taylor 15. Marco Antonio Barrera 16. Jeff Fenech 17. Simon Brown 18. Thomas Hearns 19. Mike Tyson 20. Orlando Canizales 21. Mark Johnson 22. Michael Moorer 23. Michael Nunn 24. James McGirt 25. Frankie Randall XII. 2000s 1. Bernard Hopkins 2. Floyd Mayweather 3. Manny Pacquiao 4. Miguel Cotto 5. Shane Mosley 6. Winky Wright 7. Joe Calzaghe 8. Juan Manuel Marquez 9. Nonito Donaire 10. Ricardo Lopez 11. Anonio Tarver 12. Roy Jones Jr 13. Kosta Tszyu 14. Wladimir Klitschko 15. Vernon Forest 16. Vitali Klitschko 17. Zab Judah 18. Erik Morales 19. Diego Corales 20. Ricky Hatton 21. Fernando Vargas 22. Naseem Hamed 23. Ricardo Lopez 24. Juan Carlos Gomes 25. Darius Michalczewski XIII. 2010s 1. Manny Pacquiao 2. Floyd Mayweather 3. Andre Ward 4. Saul Alvarez 5. Gennady Golovkin 6. Wladimir Klitschko 7. Vasiliy Lomachenko 8. Tyson Fury 9. Roman Gonzalez 10. Nonito Donaire 11.Miguel Cotto 12. Yoan Pablo Hernandez 13. Anthony Joshua 14. Leo Santa Cruz 15. Adonis Stevenson 16. Terrence Crawford 17. Timothy Bradley 18. Mikey Garcia 19. Bernard Hopkins 20. Errol Spence 21. Sergey Kovalev 22. Gary Russell Jr 23. David Benevides 24. Deontay Wilder 25. Oleksandr Usyk
Great effort and lovely to hear of your passion for boxing being re-ignited. Some similarities and some big differences to my own list (page 3, I've just got the 2010's to do, which I'll finish this week). Have you excluded Ruben Olivares because you dont think him deserving or did just forget about him? I only ask to be helpful as I got to the end of my analysis on a decade and later realised I'd completely forgotten a fighter, on more than 1 occasion.
Hi Greg - I have to admit... In thinking about my list... I definitely overlooked some top notch fighters... Olivares being one of them. I am certain that I missed and probably messed up a few. Olivares is one of those fighters that I remember well... and yet I can't believe that I missed him. I love looking at everyone's lists - regardless of who makes them. I just find it so darn informative and interesting. Always brings me back to thinking more deeply about the sport I love. Please let me know of any other thoughts you might have. Love the conversation and thank you!
