Top 5 P4P Of All-Time Based On Talent/Ability - Completely Disregarding Resume?

When I am evaluating boxers in an all-time pound-for-pound sense, resume is the thing I value above all else. For me, you only prove quality by fighting and beating quality.

However, if you did make your own top 5 completely disregarding resume and focusing solely on your own perception of a fighter's talent/ability/skills, then would this change your top 5 radically?

I don't think there is much value in doing so really other than making an interesting list to compare to others, and I understand that the very idea is very problematic as quality of opposition is so important, I get all that so if you don't think the idea is worth doing then just don't comment.

For those who do have an idea of who they would have in a top 5 based purely on ability and not including resume, then please post, comment and compare.

What makes this idea interesting for me is that guys like Greb and Langford, who always (rightly) feature very high in all-time pound-for-pound lists on account of incredible resumes, have to be discounted due to the paucity of good footage of them fighting (well, at least I would have to discount them as I personally haven't seen enough of them to rate them as fighters in terms of ability).

So, here would be my own top 5 in terms of my own perception of their talent/ability:

1.Muhammad Ali (1965-1967)
2.Roberto Duran (mid-late 70s up to 1980)
3.Willie Pep (too hard to choose a time period as I have only seen a few fights of his from different years, but the skill is clear to see)
4.Sugar Ray Leonard (1979-1982)
5.Pernell Whitaker or Jose Napoles

( * I don't claim to be a boxing historian, I have seen some of but not really enough of some great fighters like Ezzard Charles and Henry Armstrong to assess them fairly, so I cannot include them.

Also, I haven't seen Sugar Ray Robinson fight at 147, so I assessed him purely on the basis of his fights at middleweight.)



Thoughts/opinions?

 

I thought we were talking talent!

 

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If we're talking talent, Roy Jones & Mayweather have to be on that list

 

Do you think Jones had the "well-roundedness" (sorry but I can't think of a better word), the adaptability, to be considered more skilled than Napoles or Ali? I think they were more complete fighters.