Been working on my all time top 10 and id provisionally have it as this: 1. Sugar ray robinson 2. Henry Armstrong 3. Harry Greb 4. Sam Langford 5. Roberto Duran 6. Ezzard Charles 7. Muhammed Ali 8. Sugar Ray Leonard 9. Mickey Walker 10. Gene Tunney What do people think, this list is very much work in progress and I'm open to suggestions, any help would be great :thumbsup
Probably a bit biased on my part, one of my all time favourite fighters, had charles above him to begin with and ali neck and neck but let the heart rule on it and tried to overlook no mas, possibly is to high
Not bad, Tunney in the top 10 is fresh, never seen it before. I think Tunney being top 20 is more reasonable, but not quite that high. Otherwise, looks damn good. Quite similar to mine as a matter of fact. 1. Ray Robinson 2. Harry Greb 3. Henry Armstrong 4. Sam Langford 5. Muhammad Ali 6. Ezzard Charles 7. Roberto Duran 8. Ray Leonard 9. Barney Ross 10. Pernell Whitaker As you can see, me placing Pernell Whitaker at #10 hardly gives me room to talk about your placement of Tunney though. Others that I am considering(as I'm always moving around my list) placing in the top 10 are Barbados Joe Walcott and Mickey Walker. I, like you, leave out Willie Pep. I think Whitaker places higher than Pep, and have defended it often.
Tunney is one i have no problem with people arguing, my top 8 was pretty much set then had about 5 fighters fighting for the last 2 places. I think tunney is very underated and his victories over top 3 p4p atg in greb and top5 IMO all time top heavy dempsey sneaks him in there. Can be argued that they where both past prime but i'm not sure they where that far past it. I agree with pep, great fighter but never seemed to be able to do anything past 126 seen by his loss to agnott, where as whittaker won as far up as 154, would probably have pep slightly above him but totally see where your coming from. :good
In a P4P sense, no way Louis belongs that high. Not in the top 10 even. Ali is the only HW in my top 10. Louis is top 15. Definitely not above Langford, who had arguably the deepest resume of all time along with Greb.
