Ron Jackson's All Time Top 10 Fighters In Each Weight Division!!

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  1. John Dangerously

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    HEAVYWEIGHTS
    1 Joe Louis
    2 Muhammad Ali
    3 Jack Johnson
    4 Jack Dempsey
    5 Gene Tunney
    6 Larry Holmes
    7 George Foreman
    8 Rocky Marciano
    9 Sam Langford
    10 Joe Frazier

    CRUISERWEIGHTS
    1 Evander Holyfield
    2 Dwight Muhammad Qawi
    3 David Haye
    4 Juan Carlos Gomez
    5 Anaclet Wamba
    6 Carlos De Leon
    7 Orlin Norris
    8 Virgil Hill
    9 Jeff Lamkin
    10 O’Neil Bell

    LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS
    1 Ezzard Charles
    2 Archie Moore
    3 Bob Foster
    4 Michael Spinks
    5 Tommy Loughran
    6 Billy Conn
    7 Tommy Gibbons
    8 Jimmy Bivins
    9 George Carpentier
    10 Maxie Rosenbloom

    SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS
    1 Roy Jones Jnr
    2 James Toney
    3 Joe Calzaghe
    4 Frankie Liles
    5 Steve Collins
    6 Carl Froch
    7 Michael Nunn
    8 Chris Eubank
    9 Steve Little
    10 Nigel Benn

    MIDDLEWEIGHTS
    1 Harry Greb
    2 Marcel Cerdan
    3 Carlos Monzon
    4 Jake LaMotta
    5 Mickey Walker
    6 Tony Zale
    7 Tiger Flowers
    8 Dick Tiger
    9 Marvin Hagler
    10 Charlie Burley

    LIGHT MIDDLEWEIGHTS
    1 Nino Benvenuti
    2 Freddie Little
    3 Sandro Mazzinghi
    4 Koicha Wajima
    5 Maurice Hope
    6 Ayub Kalule
    7 Fernando Vargas
    8 Terry Norris
    9 Ronald “Winky” Wright
    10 Davey Moore

    WELTERWEIGHTS
    1 Ray Robinson
    2 Ray Leonard
    3 Thomas Hearns
    4 Barney Ross
    5 Emile Griffith
    6 Jimmy McLarnin
    7 Billy Graham
    8 Kid Gavilan
    9 Wilfred Benitez
    10 Carmen Basilio

    LIGHT WELTERWEIGHTS
    1 Aaron Pryor
    2 Jack Kid Berg
    3 Carlos Ortiz
    4 Duilio Loi
    5 Nicolino Loche
    6 Antonio Cervantes
    7 Meldrick Taylor
    8 Kostya Tszyu
    9 Patrizio Oliva
    10 Hector Camacho

    LIGHTWEIGHTS
    1 Henry Armstrong
    2 Roberto Duran
    3 Benny Leonard
    4 Pernell Whitaker
    5 Tony Canzoneri
    6 Joe Gans
    7 Ike Williams
    8 Freddie Welsh
    9 Willie Ritchie
    10 Joe Brown

    JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHTS
    1 Julio Cesar Chavez
    2 Alexis Arguello
    3 Floyd Mayweather Jr
    4 Kid Choclate
    5 Azumah Nelson
    6 Alfredo Escalara
    7 Wilfred Gomez
    8 Sam Serrano
    9 Flash Elorde
    10 Brian Mitchell

    FEATHERWEIGHTS
    1 Willie Pep
    2 Sandy Saddler
    3 Salvador Sanchez
    4 Young Griffo
    5 Terry McGovern
    6 Vincente Saldivar
    7 Johnny Dundee
    8 Johnny Kilbane
    9 Freddie Miller
    10 Eusebio Pedroza

    JUNIOR FEATHERWEIGHTS
    1 Lupe Pintor
    2 Louie Espinoza
    3 Daniel Zaragoza
    4 Marco Antonio Barrera
    5 Erik Morales
    6 Vuyani Bungu
    7 Jaime Garza
    8 Wilfredo Vasquez
    9 Wilfredo Gomez
    10 Jeff Fenech

    BANTAMWEIGHTS
    1 Eder Jofre
    2 Ruben Olivares
    3 Carlos Zarate
    4 George Dixon
    5 Panama Al Brown
    6 Kid Williams
    7 Pete Herman
    8 Manuel Ortiz
    9 Joe Lynch
    10 Fighting Harada

    JUNIOR BANTAMWEIGHTS
    1 Kaosi Galaxy
    2 Jiro Watanbe
    3 Gilberto Roman
    4 Jesus Rojas
    5 Santos Laciar
    6 Robert Quiroga
    7 Mark Johnson
    8 Sung Il Moon
    9 Elly Pical
    10 Rafael Ono

    FLYWEIGHTS
    1 Jimmy Wilde
    2 Pascual Perez
    3 Benny Lynch
    4 Pancho Villa
    5 Frankie Genaro
    6 Miguel Canto
    7 Midget Wolgast
    8 Masao Ohba
    9 Johnny Coulon
    10 Yuri Arbachakov

    JUNIOR FLYWEIGHTS
    1 Ricardo Lopez
    2 Jung Koo Chang
    3 Yoko Gushiken
    4 Myung Woo Yuh
    5 Hilario Zapata
    6 Dodi Penalosa
    7 Humberto Gonzalez
    8 Michael Carbajal
    9 Saman Sorjaturong
    10 Jose De Jesus

    MINI FLYWEIGHTS
    1 Bong Jun Kim
    2 Rafael Torres
    3 Fahlan Lukmingkwan
    4 Charna Porpaoin
    5 Alex Sanchez
    6 Rosendo Alvarez
    7 Hirioki Ioka
    8 Bong Jun Kim
    9 Eric Chavez
    10 Jose Antonio Aguirre


    WOULD YOU AGREE WITH HIS SELECTIONS?
     
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  2. Unforgiven

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    It's a pretty good list.
    I'd drop Tunney, realistically he doesn't belong in the top 10.
    Holyfield or Liston could replace him.
     
  3. John Dangerously

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    Jackson has Holyfield as the Nr 1 Cruiser.
    Tunney if I am correct was unbeaten in his first 75 fights?
     
  4. JohnThomas1

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    NO!

    Crap list. No Lewis, a worse omission than Tyson. Lewis, Tyson and Holyfield all miss out. Tunney doesn't belong in there.
     
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    No SRR at 160 yet LaMotta comes in at 4 lol. Ridiculous ranking fighters like SRR and Hearns in just one division.
     
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    Pintor number 1 Junior Feather and Gomez 9 LOL
     
  7. McGrain

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    Gene Tunney is far too high.

    Georges Carpantier is far too high.

    Marcel Cerdan's placement is ludicrous, almost drunkenly bad, so is Billy Graham's. There are a couple of welterweights that are a bit iffy.

    Willie Ritchie is way too high at lightweight.

    Young Griffo is hideous to rank, but that's a little too high for me.

    But this is pretty good overall.
     
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    As usual, Packey McFarland never existed. Who is Ron Jackson anyway?
     
  10. JohnThomas1

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    Speaking of which, where is our ESB all time division by division sticky?
     
  11. McGrain

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    Yeah, no Packey, Jesus. That said, is #11 really so indefensible?
     
  12. McGrain

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    Still in existence, i've nagged Rummy about it but it'll need to be re-organised etc. Send him a pm, help me nag him.
     
  13. Unforgiven

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    Most of his fights were not against heavyweights though. Mostly he fought middleweights and light-heavyweights.
    His record is good, I don't know how many fights he was unbeaten but he only has 1 loss in about 88 recorded fights.
     
  14. JohnThomas1

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    Thank god for that. I just went looking so as to compare our list with this blokes and it was gone.
     
  15. scartissue

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    He appears to make a point to rank a fighter in only one weight class. Therefore, it was an oversight on his part of rating Wilfredo Gomez twice - at 122 and 130. I was surprised seeing his name at jr. light. He did nothing there except steal a decision over the much more deserving Rocky Lockridge and get knocked out by the forgettable Alfredo Layne. And that gets him a #7 rating? I could poke holes through several more here, but its his opinion.