Top 200 list [bona fide]

Definition of Bona Fide is 'in good faith, genuine'.

1] Sugar Ray Robinson
2] Armstrong
3] Langford
4] Greb
5] Duran
6] B.Leonard
7] Wilde
8] Ali
9] Louis
10] Pep
11] Charles
12] Fitzsimmons
13] Gans
14] R.Leonard
15] Hagler
16] Walker
17] Moore
18] Jofre
19] Tunney
20] Jack Johnson
21] Monzon
22] Whitaker
23] B.Ross
24] Saddler
25] Canzoneri
26] Salvador Sanchez
27] Babadoes Joe Walcott
28] Ketchel
29] I.Williams
30] Burley
31] Marciano
32] Jack Dempsey
33] Roy Jones Jnr
34] Holmes
35] Dixon
36] Cesar Charvez
37] E.Griffith
38] Arguello
39] Holyfield
40] Kid Gavilan
41] Hearns
42] Napoles
43] Freddie Welsh
44] Driscoll
45] C.Ortiz
46] L.Lewis
47] Harada
48] Mayweather Jnr
49] Calzaghe
50] Britton
51] Olivares
52] M.Spinks
53] Hopkins
54] Wills
55] W.Gomez
56] foster
57] Villa
58] Loughran
59] LM Rodriquez
60] Al Brown
61] M.Ortiz
62] Dick Tiger
63] Conn
64] Attell
65] Perez
66] Canto
67] McGovern
68] Ted Kid Lewis
69] Kid Chocolate
70] Joe Brown
71] Tiger Flower
72] Cerdan
73] Jeffries
74] Pryer
75] Basilio
76] McLarnin
77] T.Ryan
78] Beau Jack
79] Angott
80] Trinidad
81] McCallum
82] W.Benitez
83] De La Hoya
84] Graham
85] Gibbons
86] Kilbane
87] Blackburn
88] Ambers
89] Tyson
90] H.Williams
91] Liston
92] Herman
93] Philly Jack O'Brien
94] Loi
95] Cervantes
96] Zarate
97] Giardello
98] McFarland
99] Buchanan
100]Elorde
101]Montgomery
102]Barrera
103]Dundee
104]Zale
105]Vicente Salvador
106]LaBarba
107]Kid Williams
108]Genero
109]Nonpareil Jack Dempsey
110]Battling Nelson
111]Rosenbloom
112]La Motta
113]Foreman
114]Frazier
115]Wolgast
116]R.Lopez
117]Carpentier
118]Locche
119]Pacquiao
120]Kane
121]Jersey Joe Walcott
122]Dillon
123]Marshall
124]Graziano
125]Delaney
126]Camacho
127]Sharkey
128]J.Lynch
129]Kingpetch
130]Barry
131]B.Lynch
132]Benvenuti
133]Baer
134]Jeanette
135]Tendler
136]Buff
137]Coulon
138]Chandler
139]Holly
140]DeJesus
141]P.Jackson
142]Winky Wright
143]Mosley
144]Morales
145]Blackburn
146]Griffo
147]Kid Berg
148]H.Johnson
149]Galaxy
150]Mandell
151]Escobar
152]Freddie Steele
153]Azumah Nelson
154]Bud Taylor
155]Accavallo
156]Young Corbett 111
157]Booker
158]Bivins
159]Moran
160]Ohba
161]H.Gonzalez
162]Toney
163]James J Corbett
164]Patterson
165]Kid McCoy
166]Gushiken
167]Freddie Miller
168]Carbajal
169]F.Burns
170]Winstone
171]Levinsky
172]Fullmer
173]McAuliffe
174]E.Pedrozsa
175]Pintor
176]Coulon
177]Pal Moore
178]Becerra
179]Jung Koo Chang
180]Fenech
181]Honeyghan
182]McGuigan
183]Qawi
184]John Henry Lewis
185]Hamed
186]Collins
187]Saad Muhammed
188]Perkins
189]Schmeling
190]Turpin
191]Michalczewski
192]Nunn
193]Virgil Hill
194]John L Sullivan
195]Ritchie
196]Kilbane
197]Lew Jenkins
198]Eubank
199]Benn
200]Norris

 

Taken from the above list, Joe Calzaghe {retired today} would only be the 4th ranked Welshman behind Wilde,Welsh and Driscoll.

 

Taken from the above list Pacquiao would only be ranked as the 3rd best boxer from the Philipines behind Pancho Villa and Flash Elorde.{although Pacman is sill active}

 

Taken from the above list, the top 12 heavyweights would be -
1] Ali
2] Louis
3] Jack Johnson
4] Marciano
5] Jack Demsey
6] Holmes
7] Lewis
8] Jeffries
9] Tyson
10] Liston
11] Foreman
12] Frazier

 

Thanks DINAMITA, i am open to change i will look at your concerns and probably change some things as you suggest.
If you see some more dubious selections let me know.

 

The list i have compiled is not a P4P type list, i dont try to envisage a flyweight fighting a heavyweight, if the flyweight is a better flyweight than the heavyweight is a heavyweight, than i would rank the flyweight higher.

Pacman scores very well P4P as he continues to win moving up the weights, Calzaghe does not score well P4P as he spent virtually his whole career at one weight.
Thats why i don't like P4P, Calzaghe enjoyed a great career, i accept that his resume is not the best but he has beaten everybody put infront of him including some good opposition, Pacman on the other had has lost 3 times and drawn twice already. {i bet he will lose a couple more fights before he is finished as well}

 

The reason i originally had Joppy, Hatton etc was to create debate.
That list was put together after the Hopkins/Calzaghe bout, i could not believe the disrespect towards Calzaghe on this site at that time,particularly from you DINAMITA, so i created a list to show some people on this forum, look this is where Calzaghe stands on an all time list, it had to be a top 200 because at the time, some people were saying he would not make their top 100 {fair enough}, i figured that even the most biased of posters would be hard pressed not to have him in a top 200, that would be enough to make some people stop and think top 200 all time 'he must be good', and give the boxer some overdue respect.
If i had done a bona-fide list {which of course i have now done} it would have ended up with lots of old boxers {and by and large it is dominated by old boxers} that most of the people that i was targeting would not have heard of and i would have had virtually no responce, so i needed a list with the best of the current crop on {Hatton etc}as well as the all time greats to stimulate conversation, interest and debate.

My views have not changed much recently apart from finding out Ross holds a 2-0 over Canzoneri [although both close] and some of the boxers on sweet_scientist's list were better than i realised when i checked them out.

 

It is my own work, you will not find many top 200's on the net.