Heavyweight: Joe Frazier UD15 Muhammad Ali Cruiserweight: Oleksander Usyk UD12 Murat Gassiev Light Heavyweight (175 lbs): Harry Greb UD15 Gene Tunney Super Middleweight (168 lbs): Roy Jones Jr UD12 James Toney Middleweight (160 lbs): Sugar Ray Leonard SD12 Marvin Hagler Super Welterweight (154 lbs): Thomas Hearns MD15 Wilfred Benitez Welterweight (147 lbs): Roberto Duran UD15 Sugar Ray Leonard Super Lightweight (140 lbs): Wilfred Benitez SD15 Antonio Cervantes Lightweight (135 lbs): Henry Armstrong UD15 Lou Ambers Super Featherweight (130 lbs): Floyd Mayweather RTD8 Genaro Hernandez Featherweight (126 lbs): Willie Pep UD15 Sandy Saddler Super Bantamweight (122 lbs): Wilfredo Gomez TKO5 Carlos Zarate Bantamweight (118 lbs): Fighting Harada SD15 Eder Jofre Super Flyweight (115 lbs): Gilberto Roman UD12 Jiro Watanabe Flyweight (112 lbs): Fidel LaBarba UD10 Frankie Genaro Junior Flyweight (108 lbs): Humberto Gonzalez SD12 Michael Carbajal Minimumweight (105 lbs): Ricardo Lopez SD12 Rosendo Alvarez
Great choices. I may not agree with all of them but I don't violently disagree with any of them - they all have a decent case.
Very good picks, can't grumble with any of them. Some others which could possibly feature: Randall-Chavez I at Light-Welter / 140 lb. Whitaker had damaged Chavez's reputation a little, and Laporte and Taylor had made it seem imaginable, but Randall actually did it clearly and dominantly - defeated Chavez in every single way. Brilliant performance, made Chavez look average, took the '0' and did it as a 15-1 underdog in his first ever world title fight aged 32. Nelson-Fenech II at Super-Featherweight / 130 lb. Given what had happened in their first fight, I think this is one of the all-time great performances by Nelson. Eerily similar to Sanchez-Gomez (another one of the greatest performances ever) in the way Nelson decked the favourite and perceived bigger hitter early, had the wasn't afraid to mix it up with him afterwards and gradually just took him apart and overpowered him in eight. Basically beat everything Fenech had out of him and ended his days as a world class fighter in one night. But as I said, great list of above and can't fault any of them.
I had to pick between Holyfield-Qawi and Usyk-Gassiev. Qawi was past his prime and he was a natural LHW. Gassiev had beaten Lebedev, Wlodarczyk, Dorticos back to back. And Usyk schooled Gassiev. I think Gassiev was a more accomplished CW than Qawi and dominating him has got to be the biggest win in CW history. I picked the Hernandez win at 130 because I think he was better and greater than Corrales. He was 12-0-1 in title fights at 130. And he beat Azumah Nelson. Corrales was a great win as well considering Floyd's performance but dethroning an established champion like Hernandez has to rank higher imo.
I think I'd go with Ali - Foreman or even Liston - Patterson just because of where they were in their respective careers at the time.
Yeah, that's got to be under consideration. These three are equally good in their way, no obvious clear winner: Arguello-Escalera 1 Nelson-Fenech 2 Mayweather-Corrales
