Just a heads-up, a minimum of 10 is required for each decade. You have plenty of time to expand on what you started (and please feel free to edit your changes in your original list post). You're good to go on the 1910s, but I'm afraid I still need 3 more names for your 1900s. Deadline will be in less than a week. Cheers! And thanks!
1950’s: 1. Archie Moore 2. Sugar Ray Robinson 3. Pascual Perez 4. Carmen Basilio 5. Floyd Patterson 6. Harold Johnson 7. Yoshio Shirai 8. Gene Fullmer 9. Kid Gavilan 10. Rocky Marciano 1960’s: 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Sonny Liston 3. Dick Tiger 4. Eder Jofre 5. Fighting Harada 6. Jose Napoles 7. Chartchai Chionoi 8. Vicente Saldivar 9. Pone Kingpetch 10. Emile Griffith 1970’s: 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Roberto Duran 3. Alexis Arguello 4. Danny Lopez 5. Joe Frazier 6. Bob Foster 7. Masao Ohba 8. Carlos Monzon 9. Jose Napoles 10. George Foreman 1980’s: 1. Marvin Hagler 2. Ray Leonard 3. Tommy Hearns 4. Salvador Sanchez 5. Jeff Chandler 6. Wilfredo Gomez 7. Mike Tyson 8. Donald Curry 9. Michael Spinks 10. Dwight Muhammad Qawi 1990’s: 1. Pernell Whitaker 2. Roy Jones Jr. 3. Evander Holyfield 4. Felix Trinidad 5. Oscar De La Hoya 6. James Toney 7. Ricardo Lopez 8. Mark Johnson 9. Yuri Arbachakov 10. Erik Morales
1900s 1. Joe Gans 2. Jack Johnson 3. Sam Langford 4. Terry McGovern 5. Tommy Ryan 6. Abe Atell 7. Tommy Burns 8. “Philadelphia”Jack O’Brien 9. Stanley Ketchel 10. Jack Root 11. Battling Nelson 12. Mike “Twin” Sullivan 13. Young Corbett II 14. James J Jefferies 15. Billy Papkie 16. Jimmy Britt 17. Marvin Hart 18. Jimmy Gardner 19. Harry Lewis 20. Jack Blackburn 21. Joe Jeanette 22. George Gardner 23. Charles Kid McCoy 24. Al Kauffman 25. Jim Driscoll
Just like to add my 1980s list, which took me waaaay longer than the previous decades to compile, due to there being far more world champions (and sanctioning bodies) to consider. I don't think I could cope with compiling a list for the 90s and subsequent decades! IX 1980s: 1. Julio Cesar Chavez 2. Myung-Woo Yuh 3. Jung-Koo Chang 4 . Hilario Zapata 5. Larry Holmes 6. Kaosai Galaxy 7. Michael Spinks 8. Marvin Hagler 9. Azumah Nelson 10. Aaron Pryor
I only feel knowledgable to rank from the 60s to 80s as that's when I watched boxing almost constantly. I asked my Dad to compile a list of who he thought were the best p4p boxers in the 40s. 1940s 1) Joe Louis 2) Willy Pep 3) Ezzard Charles 4) Sugar Ray Robinson 5) Sandy Saddler 6) Archie Moore 7) Ike Williams 8) Manuel Ortiz 9) Beau Jack 10) Bob Montgomery 1960s 1) Muhammad Ali 2) Emile Griffith 3) Fighting Harada 4) Eder Jofre 5) D*ck Tiger 6) Nino Benvenuti 7) Vincente Saldivar 8) Bob Foster 9) Sonny Liston 10) Carlos Ortiz 1970s 1) Muhammad Ali 2) Roberto Duran 3) Carlos Monzon 4) George Foreman 5) Alexis Arguello 6) Wilfred Benítez 7) Joe Frazier 8) Ken Norton 9) Wilfredo Gomez 10) Jose Napoles 1980s 1) Thomas Hearns 2) Sugar Ray Leonard 3) Marvellous Marvin Hagler 4) Michael Spinks 5) Roberto Duran 6) Larry Holmes 7) Julio Cesar Chavez 8) Evander Holifield 9) Mike Tyson 10) Wilfred Benítez
OK, I have the following 12 tentatively ready to roll. If any of you 12 make any amendments to your list before the deadline (in approximately 23 hours), please let me know so I can update what I have here. @McGrain no pressure, but if you have time your input would be appreciated. And for everyone else, still time left! Austinboxing @Austinboxing 1. Jack Johnson 2. Harry Greb 3. Tommy Gibbons 4. Mile Gibbons 5. Benny Leonard 6. Harry Wills 7. Battling Levensky 8. Sam Langford 9. Johnny Killbain 10. Johnny Dundee Rubber Glove Sandwich @Rubber Glove Sandwich 1. Joe Gans 2. Jack Johnson 3. Abe Attell 4.Philadelphia Jack O'Brian 5. Barbados Joe Walcott 6. Sam Langford 7. Terry Mcgovern 8. James J Jeffries 9. Stanley Ketchel 10. Packey McFarland Greg Price99 @Greg Price99 1. Joe Gans 2. Packey McFarland 3. Stanley Ketchel 4. Jack Johnson 5. Abe Attell 6. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien 7. Jim Driscoll 8. Sam Langford 9. Terry McGovern 10. Owen Moran 11. Tommy Ryan 12. Tommy Burns 13. Barbados Joe Walcott 14. Benny Yanger 15. Charles Kid McCoy 16. Young Corbett II 17. Jack Blackburn 18. Marvin Hart 19. Jack Root 20. Billy Papke 21. Jack Twin Sullivan 22. Battling Nelson 23. Joe Jeanette 24. George Gardner 25. Mike Schreck mattdonnellon @mattdonnellon 1-Joe Gans 2-Sam Langford 3-Jack Johnson 4-Jim Jeffries 5-Joe Jeannette 6-Sam McVea 7-Stanley Ketchel 8-Tommy Burns 9-Marvin Hart 10-Jack O’Brien 11-Bob Fitzsimmons 12-Battling Nelson 13-Young Corbett 11 14-Terry McGovern 15-George Gardiner 16-Jack Root 17-Frank Klaus 18-Joe Walcott 19-Owen Moran 20-Dave Holly 21-Mike Schreck 22-Jack Twin Sullivan 23-Willie Lewis 24-Ed Martin 25-Gus Ruhlin White Bomber @White Bomber 1. Joe Gans 2. James J. Jeffries 3. Stanley Ketchel 4. Sam Langford 5. Bob Fitzsimmons 6. Jack Johnson 7. Tommy Ryan 8. Terry McGovern 9. Tommy Burns 10. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien Jason Thomas @Jason Thomas 1---Joe Gans 2---Jack Johnson 3---Jim Jeffries 4---Terry McGovern 5---Packey McFarland 6---Joe Walcott 7---Sam Langford 8---Abe Attell 9---Stanley Ketchel 10-Tommy Burns BoxingFanOfIranianDescent @BoxingFanOfIranianDescent 1. Jim Jeffries 2. Joe Gans 3. Jack Johnson 4. Joe Walcott 5. Stanley Ketchel 6. Jack O'Brien 7. Terry Mcgovern 8. Sam Langford 9. Abe Attell 10. Tommy Ryan DanTheBoxingFan69 @DanTheBoxingFan69 1) Joe Gans 2) Jack Johnson 3) Terry McGovern 4) Battling Nelson 5) Tommy Ryan 6) James Jeffries 7) Young Corbett II 8) Stanley Ketchel 9) Philadephia Jack O'Brien 10) Sam Langford Sooncreate3 @Sooncreate3 1. Joe Gans 2. Sam Langford 3. Barbados Joe Walcott 4. Terry McGovern 5. James J Jeffries 6. Stanley Ketchel 7. Abe Attell 8. Philadelphia Jack O Brien 9. Jack Johnson 10. Battling Nelson Ih8ohio @Ih8ohio 1. Joe Gans 2. Barbados Joe Walcott 3. Jack Johnson 4. Terry McGovern 5. Battling Nelson 6. Abe Attell 7. Stanley Ketchel 8. Bob Fitzsimmons 9. Tommy Ryan 10. Jack Root Lee Hyett @Lee Hyett 1) Abe Attell 2) Joe Gans 3) Stanley Ketchel 4) Tommy Burns 5) James J. Jeffries 6) Terry McGovern 7) Young Corbett III 8) Tommy Ryan 9) Battling Nelson 10) Rube Ferns Del Boy @Del Boy 1. Joe Gans 2. Jack Johnson 3. Sam Langford 4. Terry McGovern 5. Tommy Ryan 6. Abe Atell 7. Tommy Burns 8. “Philadelphia”Jack O’Brien 9. Stanley Ketchel 10. Jack Root 11. Battling Nelson 12. Mike “Twin” Sullivan 13. Young Corbett II 14. James J Jefferies 15. Billy Papkie 16. Jimmy Britt 17. Marvin Hart 18. Jimmy Gardner 19. Harry Lewis 20. Jack Blackburn 21. Joe Jeanette 22. George Gardner 23. Charles Kid McCoy 24. Al Kauffman 25. Jim Driscoll
And for the record, if anyone is gets these less than a day behind the deadline, I'm NOT trying to dissuade people. As long as I'm not too far along, I'll try my best to include anyone who misses by a few hours or whatnot.
@Rumsfeld If it is not too late, I have updated my list on page 7 of this thread, to include my 1900s list. Cheers.
It's difficult for me to understand Packey McFarland only being on 3 out of 11 lists. Even more so that they are 2 x top 25 on which he doesn't appear. McFarland was 58-1-3 in the decade. His only loss, if it occurred at all, was when he was a 15-year old child. He went 1-0-1 with top 10 all time LW Freddie Welsh & was considered to be on the better end of the draw. He beat the wonderful Benny Yanger, as well as Leach Cross x 2, Jimmy Britt and Harlem Tommy Murphy.
I have McFarland as a top 6 all-time Lightweigh and top 40 all-time P4P, so he must have got lost somewhere in my back and forth laptop - phone cutting and pasting of my lists. I'll add him back in now. Thanks for pointing it out.