The Top 100 Pound for Pound All-Time Greats

Barbados Walcott is an enigma. Loved reading that write up McG.

He was consistently beating everyone he held a speed advantage over but when he came up against someone who could match or better his handspeed he greatly struggled.

Still, I think he can beat anyone in the world if he lands his money shot.

 

Are you sure it was the Brooklyn middleweight, though, and not just some other local (east side) smaller boxer with the same name? The reports I have don't mention any size discrepancy, which I think they would if there were 20+ pounds between them.

 

Saddler won the 130 title not 140 sir.

 

Um...maybe I'm wrong but remembering the footage Elorde was doing very well until cut against Saddler late on. 'Breaking him down' makes it sound like Elorde was stopped...proper stopped I mean.

 

Agreed.

 

Canzoneri outside the top 20 is a wee bit upsetting, but the brilliant write-up makes up for it.

 

I still wouldn't say he 'broke him down'.

And the fight shows, Elorde was in there.

Still, a tremendous victory for Saddler, I'm not saying it was a Chionoi-McGowan scenario or anything. I'm glad he's placed so high.

 

I only have these, and I wouldn't be sure it was the Brooklyn middleweight.

1893-02-10 The World (New York, NY) (page 6)
Carroll Was an Easy Mark.

Jimmy Carroll, an east side boxer, wearing a pair of tights with yellow and black stripes, tripped nimbly into the ring at Miner's Bowery Theatre last night. He had come there to box four rounds with Joe Walcott. As Carroll wouldn't agree to Tom O'Rourke as referee Johnny Eckhardt, of the Coney Island A. C., was chosen. Carroll started off in a frisky fashion, but Walcott punched him so hard that before two minutes had passed he cried quits. To-night Walcott will meet Jack Freese, of this city. Dixon will face "Buck" Leary, a well-known featherweight of Rahway, N. J.

1893-02-10 The New York Herald (New York, NY) (page 9)
"Joe" Walcott, the light weight champion pugilist of New England, who is now travelling with George Dixon's combination, knocked out "Jimmy" Carroll, of this city, in two minutes, at Miner's Bowery Theatre last night. "Johnny" Ekchardt, of the Coney Island Athletic Club, refereed the bout.

1893-02-10 The Sun (New York, NY) (page 4)
At Miner's Bowery Theatre, last night, Joe Walcott knocked out Jimmy Carroll in one round. Johnny Eckhardt of the C. I. A. C. was referee. To-night Dixon will meet Buck Leary, the champion feather weight of New Jersey. Leary hails from Rahway, and has quite a reputation. Walcott will face Jack Freese of this city for four rounds.

 

So do we actually consider the first Walcott/Lavigne fight as a loss for Joe? By all accounts he clearly won the fight on the cards, with Lavigne coming on strong down the stretch. I just can't bring myself to list a fight as a loss when it was pre-arranged that if one man didn't KO the other (not vice versa) it was ruled as such automatically. 10-5 in rounds is a loss? I know it was agreed upon, but still.