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Just did my 1910s list. I'll start to do more than 10 once we get to the 1930s. It's honestly incredible how much some of these guys just did a year let alone an entire decade. It makes making the lists for the early decades kinda overwhelming. Which is why I'm only doing 10. I couldn't tell you who was greater between the bantamweight trio of the 1910s to save my life. So I won't.

 

Sorry i missed the first two rounds but here is my top ten of the 1910s
1 Harry Greb
2 Sam Langford
3 Jack Johnson
4 Tommy Gibbons
5 Packey McFarland
6 Jimmy Wilde
7 Benny Leonard
8 Mike Gibbons
9 Harry Wills
10 Ted Kid Lewis

 

Didn't arrived on time for the first 2 surveys (1890's and 1900's) but I'll give my list for those 2 decades nonetheless, along with all the other's.

I. 1890's

1: Bob Fitzsimmons
2: George Dixon
3: Tommy Ryan
4: James J. Corbett
5: Mysterious Billy Smith
6: Young Griffo
7: Jack Mcauliffe
8: Oscar Gardner
9: Solly Smith
10: Joe Goddard
11: Charles Kid McCoy
12: George Kid Lavigne
13: Joe Choynski
14: Jimmy Barry
15: Torpedo Billy Murphy
16: Nonpareil Jack Dempsey
17: Barbados Joe Walcott
18: James J. Jeffries
19: Joe Gans
20: John L. Sullivan
21: Peter Jackson
22: Terry McGovern
23: Frank Craig
24: Dan Creedon
25: Owen Ziegler

II. 1900's

1: Jack Johnson
2: Abe Attell
3: Joe Gans
4: Sam Langford
5: Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
6: Barbados Joe Walcott
7: Young Corbett II
8: Harry Lewis
9: Battling Nelson
10: Harry Forbes
11: George Gardner
12: Stanley Ketchel
13: James J. Jeffries
14: Willie Lewis
15: Jack Blackburn
16: Rube Ferns
17: Terry McGovern
18: Tommy Burns
19: Tommy Ryan
20: Freddie Welsh
21: Matty Matthews
22: Honey Mellody
23: Frank Erne
24: Joe Jeanette
25: Jimmy Gardner

III. 1910s

1: Sam Langford
2: Harry Greb
3: Jack Britton
4: Ted Kid Lewis
5: Johnny Dundee
6:Benny Leonard
7: Jack Dillon
8: Battling Levinsky
9: Harry Wills
10:Freddie Welsh
11: Leo Hauck
12: Joe Jeanette
13: Packey McFarland
14: Mike Gibbons
15: Kid Norfolk
16: Billy Miske
17: Tommy Gibbons
18: Sam McVea
19: Lew Tendler
20: Mike O'Dowd
21: Jimmy Wilde
22: George Chip
23: Les Darcy
24: Johnny Kilbane
25: Ad Wolgast

IV. 1920s

1: Harry Greb
2: Tommy Loughran
3: Maxie Rosenbloom
4: Benny Leonard
5: Mickey Walker
6: Sammy Mandell
7: Tiger Flowers
8: Jimmy Slatttery
9: Dave Shade
10: Jack Delaney
11: Pete Latzo
12: Jimmy McLarnin
13: Jackie Fields
14: Joe Glick
15: Joe Dundee
16: Young Stribling
17: Kid Norfolk
18: Benny Bass
19: Mike McTigue
20: Gene Tunney
21: Fidel La Barba
22: "Bud" Taylor
23: Jack Dempsey
24: Pancho Villa
25: Len Harvey

V. 1930s

1: Henry Armstrong
2: Tony Canzoneri
3: Joe Louis
4: Maxie Rosenbloom
5: Lou Ambers
6: Barney Ross
7: Freddie Miller
8: Freddie Steele
9: Panama Al Brown
10: John Henry Lewis
11: Fred Apostoli
12: Marcel Thil
13: Vince Dundee
14: Teddy Yarosz
15: Jimmy McLarnin
16: Battling Battalino
17: Kid Chocolate
18: Lou Brouillard
19: Billy Petrolle
20: Tiger Jack Fox
21: Young Corbett III
22: Ceferino Garcia
23: Peter Kane
24: Midget Wolgast
25: Kid Azteca

VI. 1940s

1: Sugar Ray Robinson
2: Willie Pep
3: Ike Williams
4: Ezzard Charles
5: Holman Williams
6: Bob Montgomery
7: Joe Louis
8: Jimmy Bivins
9: Charley Burley
10: Henry Armstrong
11: Archie Moore
12: Beau Jack
13: Chalky Wright
14: Sandy Saddler
15: Jake LaMotta
16: Bert Lytell
17: Kid Gavilan
18: Manuel Ortiz
19: Lloyd Marshall
20: Sammy Angott
21: Tony Zale
22: Gus Lesnevich
23: Eddie Booker
24: Tami Mauriello
25: Fritzie Zivic


VII. 1950s

1: Archie Moore
2: Sugar Ray Robinson
3: Carmen Basilio
4: Rocky Marciano
5: Kid Gavilan
6: Gene Fullmer
7: Joe Brown
8: Jimmy Carter
9: Carl Bobo Olson
10: Duilio Loi
11: Sandy Saddler
12: Kenny Lane
13: Davey Moore
14: Don Jordan
15: Carlos Ortiz
16: Joey Giardello
17: Floyd Patterson
18: Charles Humez
19: Hogan Kid Bassey
20: Wallace Bud Smith
21: Ezzard Charles
22: Pascual Pérez
23: Gaspar Ortega
24: Tony DeMarco
25: Harold Johnson


VIII. 1960s

1: Emile Griffith
2: Muhammad Ali
3: Luis Rodriguez
4: Carlos Ortiz
5: Dick Tiger
6: José Nápoles
7: Nino Benvenutti
8: Gabriel Elorde
9: Ismael Laguna
10: Curtis Cokes
11: Fighting Harada
12: Éder Jofre
13: Nicolino Locche
14: Eddie Perkins
15: Davey Moore
16: Benny Kid Paret
17: Vicente Saldivar
18: Joey Giardello
19: Willie Pastrano
20: Floyd Patterson
21: Sugar Ramos
22: Gene Fullmer
23: Lionel Rose
24: Bob Foster
25: Sonny Liston


IX 1970s

1: Muhammad Ali
2: Carlos Monzón
3: José Nápoles
4: Roberto Durán
5: Alexis Arguello
6: António Cervantes
7: Bob Foster
8: George Foreman
9: Danny Lopez
10: Wilfredo Gómez
11: Miguel Canto
12: Bruno Arcari
13: Carlos Palomino
14: Wilfred Benitez
15: Victor Galíndez
16: Larry Holmes
17: Ken Buchanan
18: Carlos Zárate
19: Pipino Cuevas
20: Joe Frazier
21: Ayub Kalule
22: Kuniaki Shibata
23: Ken Norton
24: Sugar Ray Leonard
25: Rúben Olivares


X. 1980s

1: Marvin Hagler
2: Michael Spinks
3: Thomas Hearns
4: Mike Tyson
5: Sugar Ray Leonard
6: Larry Holmes
7: Julio César Chávez
8: Santos Laciar
9: Donald Curry
10: Salvador Sánchez
11: Azumah Nelson
12: Hector Camacho
13: Michael Nunn
14: Evander Holyfield
15: Roberto Durán
16: Aaron Pryor
17: Mike McCallum
18: Milton McCory
19: Dwight Muhammad Qawi
20: Virgil Hill
21: Wilfredo Gómez
22: Jeff Fenech
23: Alexis Arguello
24: Jeff Chandler
25: Lloyd Honeyghan


XI. 1990s

1: Pernell Whitaker
2: Roy Jones Jr.
3: Oscar De La Hoya
4: Evander Holyfield
5: Félix Trinidad
6: James Toney
7: Julio César Chávez
8: Terry Norris
9: Ricardo López
10: Lennox Lewis
11: Naseem Hamed
12: Miguel Ángel González
13: Michael Nunn
14: Luisito Espinosa
15: Riddick Bowe
16: Erik Morales
17: Fernando Vargas
18: Johnny Tapia
19: Virgil Hill
20: Orlando Canizales
21: Sung Kil Moon
22: Saman Sorjatorung
23: Dariusz Michalczewski
24: Shane Mosley
25: Junior Jones


XII. 2000s

1: Manny Pacquiao
2: Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3: Bernard Hopkins
4: Shane Mosley
5: Marco Antonio Barrera
6: Joe Calzaghe
7: Wladimir Klitschko
8: Roy Jones Jr.
9: Miguel Cotto
10: Lennox Lewis
11: Juan Manuel Márquez
12: Kostya Tszyu
13: Diego Corrales
14: Erik Morales
15: Cory Spinks
16: Zab Judah
17: "Winky" Wright
18: Kelly Pavlik
19: Antonio Tarver
20: Vitali Klitschko
21: José Luis Castillo
22: Ricky Hatton
23: Antonio Margarito
24: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
25: Timothy Bradley


XIII. 2010s

1: Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2: Manny Pacquiao
3: Román González
4: "Canelo" Álvarez
5: Andre Ward
6: Vasiliy Lomachenko
7: Gennady Golovkin
8: Wladimir Klitschko
9: Oleksandr Usyk
10: Sergey Kovalev
11: Terrence Crawford
12: Naoya Inoue
13: Sergio Martínez
14: Nonito Donaire
15: Anthony Joshua
16: Danny Garcia
17: Guillermo Rigondeaux
18: Timothy Bradley
19: Carl Froch
20: Juan Manuel Márquez
21: Tyson Fury
22: Mikey Garcia
23: Juan Francisco Estrada
24: Yuriorkis Gamboa
25: Miguel Cotto

Peace

 

I like this list Noel. All of my top 7 appear in your top 8.

8 of your top 10 appear in mine.

You have Wills at 9 & me at 12, so no big difference there.

The only big difference is Jack Johnson, who was my #4 in the 1900's, doesn't appear in my 25. For me his 12-1-1 record, with only a few of those wins notable, wasn't enough.

I think the 1910's was one of the strongest decades, possibly only 2nd to the 40's. The fact that Freddie Welsh, Johnny Kilbane, Pal Moore, Pete Herman, Kid Williams, Jack Dempsey nor Kid Norfolk appear in either of our top 10's, is testamount to this, imo.

 

Thanks Greg.I have to admit i am a big fan of Johnson and i get critcised many times for ranking him so highly and that i understand but i am happy with my choice.I pondered for many hours over this top 10 because as you rightly point out there are so many great fighters to consider

 

Me too. I rank Johnson #6 all time at HW & as mentioned had him #4 in the 1900's. It's just I feel it was that decade, rather than the 1910's, when he was at his best & where he did his best work. That's just my view, the important thing, of course, is that you're happy with your list, and like I say, it's a list I like.

I particularly like your inclusions of McFarland & T. Gibbons.

McFarland was 48-0-3 in the decade & was considered to be on the better end of at least one of those draws, vs Freddie Welsh. He beat my #5 all time WW Jack Britton x 2 & my #6 all time MW Mike Gibbons during the 1910's, as well as Jimmy Duffy, Matt Wells, the brilliant Owen Moran, Dick Hyland, Tommy Murphy x 3 and Young Erne x 2. Amazing record.

Tommy Gibbons went 47-0-2 & beat Harry Greb (no less!), the 15lbs heavier Battling Levinsky, Billy Miske x 2, Willie Brennan, Buck Grouse, Gus Christie x 4, George Chip x 5, Clay Turner x 2 and Bob Moha. That really is an extradorinary record.

 

2000’s:
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Bernard Hopkins
4. Shane Mosley
5. Erik Morales
6. Juan Manuel Marquez
7. Marco Antonio Barrera
8. Joe Calzaghe
9. Winky Wright
10. Rafael Marquez

2010’s:
1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2. Andre Ward
3. Canelo Alvarez
4. Manny Pacquiao
5. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez
6. Gennady Golovkin
7. Timothy Bradley
8. Oleksandr Usyk
9. Terence Crawford
10. Tyson Fury

 

1910s

1. Benny Leonard
2. Packey McFarland
3. Jimmy Wilde
4. Sam Langford
5. Jack Johnson
6. Jack Dempsey
7. Jack Britton
8. Ted Kid Lewis
9. Harry Wills
10. Jeremiah “Joe” Jeannette
11. Barney Lebrowitz (Battling Levinsky)
12. Johnny Dundee
13. Johnny Kilbane
14. Les Darcy
15. Sam McVey
16. Freddie Welsh
17. Georges Carpentier
18. Eugene Criqui
19. Pete Herman
20. Mike Gibbons

 

Post it here

 

Welcome to the forum.

Did you consider including Harry Greb &/or Tommy Gibbons?

I like your high rankings of McFarland & Wilde.

 

1920s

1. Benny Leonard
2. Harry Greb
3. Tommy Loughran
4. Jack Dempsey
5. Mickey Walker
6. Gene Tunney
7. Jack Britton
8. Poncho Villa
9. Lew Tendler
10. Harry Wills
11. Johnny Dundee
12. Louis “Kid” Kaplan
13. Charles Bernard “Bud” Taylor
14. Jimmy McLarnin