Top 10 Greatest Pound for Pound All-Time

It's a decent list, but Johnson should be nowhere near the top 10!!!

 

I would take Johnson and Tunney out and put Moore and Charles in. But otherwise a fair list.

 

Jack Johnson belongs nowhere near a top 10 P4P list. He'd rank about that high on a Heavyweight list.

The top 4 is pretty much in consensus (at least in certain circles) and consists of Robinson, Greb, Armstrong, and Langford.

After that you have to have Ezzard Charles in the top 10, though he could arguably be placed just behind those 4. His resume is second to none outside of that group, and was probably even better than Robinson's based on the quality of the opposition he was constantly facing.

Some fighters to look into would be Bob Fitzsimmons, Barbados Joe Walcott, and Mickey Walker. All weight-jumping greats who accomplished remarkable feats.

I'd leave Louis outside of the top 15 personally. Ali is the only HW that has a claim for the top 10 P4P in my book, and he's borderline. I'd rank him alongside Willie Pep in that sense. Benny Leonard outranks both the way I see it. His reign as Lightweight champ was probably more conclusive than any other fighter has ever had at any particular weight class.

Tunney doesn't crack my personal top 20, though he was undoubtedly a great fighter. He missed out on quite a few fights he should've when he drew the color line. Tommy Loughran fought the much better opposition among his LHW counterparts.

Archie Moore and Barney Ross are two others I'd put in the 10-15 range, and fighters like George Dixon are ones you'd have to do a fair bit more research on outside of Boxrec, as it doesn't tell the full story. Not by a long shot.

 

Good luck with that man, I can't ever come up with a top 10 that I like or think is fair enough to post in order.

If I'm asked to try and split hairs between the greatest of the greats, there's only a few names that make it on my list every single time: Armstrong, Greb, Robinson, Langford, Pep, and Benny Leonard.

Outside of them, it's always in flux.

 

good list. here's mine:

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Sam Langford
5. Roberto Duran
6. Willie Pep
7. Sugar Ray Leonard
8. Benny Leonard
9. Joe Louis
10. Archie Moore

 

He had over 300 fights spanning 13 years...