The 50 greatest fighters ever! Revised

Tommy Ryan am I suppossed to know about this fella? :huh

 

Would you put Sullivan on your list? We are talking strictly queensbury rules right?

I just don't feel we can properly judge fighters we don't have flim on except Greb but Greb fought fighters we have decent film on and Greb's record was supernatural.

I think also the fact I have a lot more I wanna learn about 20th century boxing before I get back into the late LPR/early queensbury era.

 

I'm not trying to knock them it's just I don't feel I can properly judge them as fighters. At least not yet.

 

Yes but we have good film on fighters Williams did battle with. That makes it a little easier.

 

Fair Enough.

I don't rate that win over Corbett as high as you though. Jim won the title over a fighter that saw his better days and with a different set of rules. He might have came in 3rd as a pre-Dempsey heavyweight but I don't see how you could rate him about Jeffries and there is no way he was better than Johnson. Not a top 12 heavy in my book and maybe not a top 15. Top 20 though.

Queensbury was in it's infancy at that time. I'm not one of those that think boxing was magically transformed in the late 50's and early 60's into a better sport but there certainly had to be a learning curve and better fighters had to develop over time with the new rules.

 

I missed Demon Joe Walcott too. Oh well. Thanks for the responses guys. I'm looking up this Tommy Ryan and he seemed like quite a fighter. Anyone that can go 76 rounds is a hard *******.