Top 20 Light-Heavyweights

I would have a hard time finding room for Lesnevich in a top-20... much less a top-10.

Also Loughran never fought Barney Ross!

Otherwise a pretty decent list.

 

Loughran fought Ross? You mean Benny don't you.

Lesnevich doesn't belong anywhere near a top ten at175lbs imo.He ducked his top contenders.
Lloyd Marshall would have had him on toast, as he did Mills.


In no order;
Charles
Tunney
Moore
Foster
Langford
Conn
Loughran
Spinks
Greb
Fitzsimmons

Dillon
Lewis
Delaney
Rosenbloom
Saad Muhammad
Mustapha Muhammad
Muhammad Qawi
Strong division

 

Lesnevich wouldn't give Bivins a title shot ,once champion he avoided Charles Marshall,Moore ,Yarosz,Bolden ,Chase,Booker ,Gainer,Harvey,McAvoy,Fox.
Cheese champ imo . similar to Pender.

 

I can see your reasoning and its as valid as mine.

 

1) Ezzard Charles 2) Archie Moore 3) Michael Spinks 4) Gene Tunney 5) Bob Foster 6) Roy Jones Jr 7) Tommy Loughran 8) Maxie Rosenbloom 9) John Henry Lewis 10) Harold Johnson

Very, very tough, and it's been my favourite division for years. Guys like Bivins, Marshall, Conn and Dillon could all arguably steal a place just inside the top ten as well. Just another thing to note - I have no idea what to do with Greb, as there are a number of factors which always leave me at a loss where to put him as a Light-Heavy. And because I'm too much of a pansy (and a bit strapped for time!) to put myself through the process today, I've decided to leave him out for now. Will maybe come back and amend this list once I've had time to ponder Greb's position properly.

 

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3. Gene Tunney
4. Harry Greb
5. Michael Spinks
6. Tommy Loughran
7. Billy Conn
8. Bob Foster
9. Harold Johnson
10. Jimmy Bivins

Next 10 (rough order) Roy Jones, Maxie Rosenbloom, Matthew Saad Muhammad, John Henry Lewis, Lloyd Marshall, Jack Dillan, Jack Delaney, Joey Maxim, Victor Galindez, Dwight Muhammad Qawi

 

You certainly have the right to only rate Greb, Fitz etc. in one weight class although they have major accomplishments in this division as well. I would just question why you are not consistent in that, by doing the same to Armstrong or SRR in multiple divisions

 

Fair enough. I just try and take each guys body of work within each division they fought at, and that gives some guys the right (for me) to rank them in multiple divisions. SRR was probably the consensus goat but there are multiple top 20 ATG’s that achieved greatness in multiple divisions. Just my $0.02