Top 20 Lightheavyweights Of All Time

Here's some names to begin with...

Ezzard Charles
Sam Langford
Michael Spinks
Billy Conn
Archie Moore
Gene Tunney
Harry Greb
Tommy Loughran
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Mathhew Saad Muhammad

 

Here is my top 20. While it has its eccentricities it is fair to say that anybody on this list is worth learing more about.

1. Sam Langford
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Gene Tunney
4. Archie Moore
5. Harry Grebb
6. Bob Fitzsimmons
7. Billy Conn
8. Jack Dillon
9. Tommy Loughran
10. Michael Spinks
11. Kid Norfolk
12. Joe Choynski
13. Harold Johnson
14. Tommy Gibbons
15. Maxie Rosenbloom
16. John Henry Lewis
17. Jimmy Bivins
18. Bob Foster
19. Jack Delaney
20. Tiger Jack Fox

 

Ring magazine, September 2002

1. EZZARD CHARLES
2. ARCHIE MOORE
3. MICHAEL SPINKS
4. TOMMY LOUGHRAN
5. BOB FOSTER
6. JIMMY BIVINS
7. HAROLD JOHNSON
8. MAXIE ROSENBLOOM
9. BILLY CONN
10. MATTHEW SAAD MUHAMMAD
11. VICTOR GALINDEZ
12. JACK DILLON
13. BATTLING LEVINSKY
14. JOEY MAXIM
15. DWIGHT MUHAMMAD QAWI
16. JOHN HENRY LEWIS
17. BOB FITZSIMMONS
18. GENE TUNNEY
19. VIRGIL HILL
20. MARVIN JOHNSON

 

something like:

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Sam Langford
3. Archie Moore
4. Gene Tunney
5. Billy Conn
6. Michael Spinks
7. Bob Foster
8. Tommy Loughran
9. Roy Jones Jr
10. Harold Johnson
11. Tommy Gibbons
12. John Henry Lewis
13. Jimmy Bivins
14. Victor Galindez
15. Dwight Muhammad Qawi

 

Also if you would like to know more about some of the names on my list or others feel free to speak up.

 

Good list Janitor!.

 

hey, where is Dariusz michalchewski???:rofl :rofl :rofl

 

In no order Moore
Charles
Tunney
Langford
Loughran
Conn
Foster
Dillon
Greb
Spinks
Delaney
Choynsky
Lewis
Johnson
Berlenbach
Bivins
Norfolk
Rosenbloom
Fox
Maxim

On the bench,Slattery,Marshall,Saad Muhammad.

 

I think I'll just take you up on that since I don't have time to do extensive research.

Langford and Fitzsimmons, particularly, are of great interest to me. I try to judge fighters through whatever footage I can get of them. So obviously, I'm grossly lacking in my knowledge of these two old-time pugilists.

I'm curious do you have Fitzsimmons placed sixth in light heavyweight and then somewhere else in heavyweight and middleweight, or do you rank him as a light heavyweight with consideration already for his stints at other weights?

 

Tommy Loughran
Maxie Rosenbloom
John Henry Lewis
Billy Conn
Archie Moore
Bob Foster
Victor Galindez
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Michael Spinks
Roy Jones Jr.

Honorable mention: Paul Berlenbach, Jimmy Bivins, Jack Delaney, Sam Langford, Yaqui Lopez, Lloyd Marshall, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Kid Norfolk, Jimmy Slattery, Young Stribling

 

The judges haven't gotten to janitor yet.

 

Great list! :good

 

I really think Eddie Mustapha Muhammad is frequently overlooked as an ATG at light heavy.

And from a head to head point of view so too is Michael Moorer.