My Own Gods of War

I just got Springs Toledo's book The Gods Of War in paperback and read the section focusing on his Ten Greatest Fighters of the Modern Era. I thought it was an excellent read and am looking forward to reading the rest of the book. Every one of his top 10 had significant accomplishments against the absolute best opponents over a lengthy period of time. My own revised list is as follows:

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
Could do it all in the ring; ruled 2 different weight divisions in 2 different decades. Welterweight in the 40's (never lost a welterweight fight) and Middleweights in the 50's.

2. Harry Greb
Considered by many experts the Greatest Middleweight of all time, fought and best the best Middleweights, Light Heavyweights & and Heavyweights of his time. Gave future HEAVYWEIGHT champion Gene Tunney his only loss.

3. Sam Langford
Fought and best the best fighters from Lightweight to Heavyweight. Jack Johnson refused to give him a shot at the title after becoming champion.

4. Henry Armstrong
3 titles simultaneously in 3 different weight divisions and a record 19 welterweight defenses in just two and a half years!

5. Muhammed Ali
Considered by most the Greatest Heavyweight of all time Ali cleaned out the Heavyweight division in the 60's and 70's against the toughest opponents possible.

6.Joe Louis
The Brown Bomber was the most dominant Heavyweight Champion on history and was truly a fighting champion wirh a record 25 successful title defenses over 11+ years.

7. Ezzard Charles
The Greatest Light-Heavyweight of all time beat the great Charley Burley twice, Archie Moore three times and won the Heavyweight Championship against a faded Joe Louis.

8. Willie Pep
The Greatest Featherweight ever and one of the greatest defensive fighters ever. Fought the fight of his life in beating Nemesis Sandy Sadler in their second meeting in what was one of the greatest performances in the history of the sport!

9. Benny Leonard
His skills and ring intelligence were nonpareil as he truly demonstrated why boxing was known as "The Sweet Science" during his reign over the lightweight division.

10. Roberto Duran
Manos De Piedra ruled the lightweight division with an iron fist, won the welterweight titlefrom the best welterweight of the era, was competitive with the regning Middleweight champion Marvin Hagler, and even won the 168 point title from a younger and stronger opponent in Iran Barkley.

I'm especially interested in the opinions of Mike Cannon, Janitor, Rumsfeld & George Crowcroft. Gentlemen, what say you?

 

My mistake, thanks for the correction.