(Apologies if this has been posted already but I did search to see if it has and nothing popped up) In 2002, the writers of Ring Magazine published a ranking of the 80 best fighters of the previous 80 years. 1. Sugar Ray Robinson 2. Henry Armstrong 3. Muhammad Ali 4. Joe Louis 5. Roberto Duran 6. Willie Pep 7. Harry Greb 8. Benny Leonard 9. Sugar Ray Leonard 10. Pernell Whitaker 11. Carlos Monzon 12. Rocky Marciano 13. Ezzard Charles 14. Archie Moore 15. Sandy Saddler 16. Jack Dempsey 17. Marvin Hagler 18. Julio Cesar Chavez 19. Eder Jofre 20. Alexis Arguello 21. Barney Ross 22. Evander Holyfield 23. Ike Williams 24. Salvador Sanchez 25. George Foreman 26. Kid Gavilian 27. Larry Holmes 28. Mickey Walker 29. Ruben Olivares 30. Gene Tunney 31. Dick Tiger 32. Fighting Harada 33. Emile Griffith 34. Tony Canzoneri 35. Aaron Pryor 36. Pascual Perez 37. Miguel Canto 38. Manuel Ortiz 39. Charley Burley 40. Carmen Basilio 41. Michael Spinks 42. Joe Frazier 43. Khaosai Galaxy 44. Roy Jones Jr. 45. Tiger Flowers 46. Panama Al Brown 47. Kid Chocolate 48. Joe Brown 49. Tommy Loughran 50. Bernard Hopkins 51. Felix Trinidad 52. Jake LaMotta 53. Lennox Lewis 54. Wilfredo Gomez 55. Bob Foster 56. Jose Napoles 57. Billy Conn 58. Jimmy McLarnin 59. Pancho Villa 60. Carlos Ortiz 61. Bob Montgomery 62. Freddie Miller 63. Benny Lynch 64. Beau Jack 65. Azumah Nelson 66. Eusebio Pedroza 67. Thomas Hearns 68. Wilfred Benitez 69. Antonio Cervantes 70. Ricardo Lopez 71. Sonny Liston 72. Mike Tyson 73. Vicente Saldivar 74. Gene Fullmer 75. Oscar De La Hoya 76. Carlos Zarate 77. Marcel Cerdan 78. Flash Elorde 79. Mike McCallum 80. Harold Johnson
These lists are a no win scenario. Because it's impossible to produce one everyone will be happy with. Arguments can always to be raised for variations to what is offered up.
