Greatest Boxers by Weightclass

I'm not gonna get into all the weightclasses, but I'd put Charles or Tunney at top for LHW, Monzon at top for MW, and Hearns at top for LMW. The rest are safe bets I think.

 

Heavyweight: Muhammad Ali
Middleweight: Carlos Monzon/Marvin Hagler
Welterweight: Ray Leonard
Lightweight: Roberto Duran
Featherweight: Willie Pep

 

My only problems with your chocies are

(a) Ezzard Charles at LHW

(b) Carlos Monzon at 160

(c) probably Mike McCallum at 154, although possibly Hearns

(d) Would probably switch Pryor with Chavez

(e) Eder Jofre at Bantamweight

 

HW- Ali
Cruiser- Evander
LHW- Tunney
SMW- Jones Jr.
MW- Jones Jr.
Junior MW- Wright
WW- Leonard
LW- Duran
SFW- Mayweather Jr.
FW- Pep
SBW- Gomez
BW- ?
FlyW-?
LFlyW- Carbajal
Minimum- Lopez

 

This is a very good list except that I would have Mayweather Jr. at 130, and possibly Lopez for both 105 and 108 but I have to do extra research on that. As far as 154 I'm not so sure,if Winky win over Tito was at 154 he would probably get my vote.

 

Ezzard Charles is the greatest LHW, and he never even held the title back then, due to boxing politics.

My top 10 all-time for the LHW division:

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3. Gene Tunney
4. Bob Foster
5. Michael Spinks
6. Tommy Gibbons
7. Billy Conn
8. Joey Maxim
9. Dariusz Michalczewski
10. Doug Jones
11. Harold Johnson
12. Roy Jones Jr.
13. Virgil Hill
14. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
15. Maxie Rosenbloom

 

Good list, but I would have Carlos Monzon instead of Hagler, Eder Jofre instead of Olivares, Thomas Hearns instead of Winky Wright, Ricardo Lopez at light-flyweight as well as minimum as I think he would have beaten Carbajal at that weight, and light-heavyweight is a difficult one but I feel have been a few better than Foster, such as Ezzard Charles. Wright is the only one I would strongly disagree with though (Mike McCallum was better as well, as was Sugar Ray Leonard at that weight), the rest of the list is good, and I especially like your selections of Arguello and Pryor.

 

Chavez in for Pryor
Mayweather in for Arguello

 

Winky #1 at 154?

Out of the original 8 weight classes, here are my picks.

HW: Ali
LHW: Charles
MW: Greb(though Monzon could easily be placed here given the fact that Greb fought a lot of his career above the MW limit or against bigger fighters)
WW: Robinson(a guy like Barbados Joe Walcott, if we're going by performance at higher weights and overall resme, could also rank very highly here)
LW: Leonard(based on resume, otherwise Duran or Whitaker)
FW: Pep
BW: Jofre
FlyW: Canto

 

some good names. however, no way winky at 154. someone like terry norris, leonard or hearns for sure. at 130 mayweather jr was very dominant. i wudnt put rjj in at 168 because his best years were mostly spent winning and defending at 175. 168 should be calzaghe because he has ruled the division for 10+ years, although i believe rjj,toney,leonard,prime eubank and possibly hearns could of beat him at that weight. they primarily were better atg's at other weights excluding eubank.

 

He was by no means better than Hearns or McCallum, regardless of whatever title he held. The division's been around for a good while as well.

 

Monzon just looked ugly in the ring, but got the job done again and again.

He simply just knew how to fight at an extremely high level.