(Ring Magazine) Top 10 P4P fighters since 1922

Post it.

It would be interesting.

 

+1

I saw a portion of it standing in line at the grocery store. Put together pretty good.

I recall SRR and Charles being 1-2 for the 1940s, Duran No. 1 of the 70s, SRL No. 1 of the 80s, Sanchez No. 3.

 

It's always nice to see someone's rating and disagree violently!

 

At first glance, they appeared to be pretty decent compilations although I can't remember the orders, which will always stir a spirited debate.

 

Thanks, man.

Not bad.

Although some choices I'd debate!

 

Horrible list

 

:good

 

Just a couple of points.

40's was Robinson's welter prime,
in 50's he was on the decline and far to inconsistent.

And in 40's you have prime Ezz destroying lt. heavyweight division in one of the most impressive runs in history of the sport.

Where's Burley or Holman Williams?

No love for Chang:verysad

Roy is second in the 90's?

Someone probably would find some other choices questionable too.

 

Huh???

 

He was definitely on the downswing, but to do what he did then come out of retirement and put the wins he did on his resume is awfully impressive. Robinson defeated so many rated fighters throughout his career that even a widdled down significant list looks extensive.

For the 1950s:

02/51: Jake LaMotta [78-14] (MW Champ) W-KO13
07/51: Randy Turpin [40-2] (#4 MW) L15
09/51: Randy Turpin [41-2] (MW Champ) W-KO10
03/52: Carl Olson [48-5] (#3 MW) W15
04/52: Rocky Graziano [67-8] (#10 MW) KO3
06/52: Joey Maxim [77-18] (LHW Champ) L-TKO14
12/55: Carl Olson [71-7] (MW Champ) W-KO2
05/56: Carl Olson [71-8] (#1 MW) W-KO4
01/57: Gene Fullmer [37-3] (#1 MW) L15
05/57: Gene Fullmer [40-3] (MW Champ) W-KO5
09/57: Carmen Basilio [51-12] (#1 MW) L15
03/58: Carmen Basilio [52-12] (MW Champ) W15

Ezz has a very hot case for this decade as illustrated above in another post.

This was dissapointing.

 

True.

But just for the sake of arguing

For example wasn't Marciano's undefeated run comparable with Robinson's while being far more consistent?

Or what about Saddler's featherweight run with 2 victories against Pep himself in the 50's?

 

Funnily enough, if you take out Greb & put in Chavez, this is my exact top 10... bearing in mind I never include fighters with zero or bad viewable footage on my lists & the placing of certain fighters on this list differs from mine too.

 

Agreed... my top 10 in a rough order is....

Robinson
Armstrong
Ali
Pep
Charles
Duran
Leonard (Ray)
Louis
Whitaker
Chavez

 

Boxrec fight records are incomplete from that era. The lesser names on Greb's resume in all likelihood had considerably more fights, unless you want to believe that journeymen in the 10s and 20s fought a couple of times a year exclusively against Hall of Famers from the beginning of their careers :roll:

Of far greater significance is that Greb beat 2 ATGs (Tunney and Walker) who were closer to their prime he was, along with a dozen other Hall of Famers across 3 divisions.

Calzaghe's best win is Kessler, who was more convincingly beaten by Ward. It's a struggle to put an argument for Calzaghe being top 5 of the 00s, never mind the last 90 years.