Top 50 All-time Great Boxers - Accomplishment, Ability and Impact!

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  1. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    [FONT=&quot]1. Sugar Ray Robinson[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]2. Henry Armstrong[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]3. Muhammad Ali[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]4. Harry Greb[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]5. Sam Langford[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]6. Joe Louis[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]7. Ezzard Charles[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]8. Manny Pacquiao[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]9. Roberto Duran[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]10. Willie Pep[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]11. Ray Leonard[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]12. Benny Leonard[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]13. Pernell Whitaker[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]14. Archie Moore[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]15. Mickey Walker[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]16. Bob Fitzsimmons[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]17. Marvin Hagler[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]18. Carlos Monzon[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]19. Gene Tunney[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]20. Bernard Hopkins[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]21. Joe Gans[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]22. Barney Ross[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]23. Rocky Marciano[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]24. Barbados Joe Walcott[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]25. Alexis Arguello[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]26. Kid Gavilan[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]27. Julio Cesar Chavez[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]28. Sandy Saddler[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]29. Jimmy Wilde[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]30. Roy Jones Jr[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]31. Tony Canzoneri[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]32. Thomas Hearns[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]33. Charley Burley[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]34. Ike Williams[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]35. Emile Griffith[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]36. Jack Johnson[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]37. Lennox Lewis[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]38. Evander Holyfield[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]39. Eder Jofre[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]40. Jack Dempsey[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]41. Salvador Sanchez[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]42. Stanley Ketchel[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]43. Jose Napoles[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]44. Ruben Olivares[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]45. Michael Spinks[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]46. Jimmy McLarnin[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]47. Floyd Mayweather Jr[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]48. Tommy Loughran[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]49. Carlos Ortiz[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]50. Larry Holmes[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
     
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  2. combatesdeboxeo

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    50 greatest fighters according espn
    1. Sugar Ray Robinson
    2. Muhammad Ali
    3. Henry Armstrong
    4. Joe Louis
    5. Willie Pep
    6. Roberto Duran
    7. Benny Leonard
    8. Jack Johnson
    9. Jack Dempsey
    10. Sam Langford
    11. Joe Gans
    12. Sugar Ray Leonard
    13. Harry Greb
    14. Rocky Marciano
    15. Jimmy Wilde
    16. Gene Tunney
    17. Mickey Walker
    18. Archie Moore
    19. Stanley Ketchel
    20. George Foreman
    21. Tony Canzoneri
    22. Barney Ross
    23. Jimmy McLarnin
    24. Julio Cesar Chavez
    25. Marcel Cerdan
    26. Joe Frazier
    27. Ezzard Charles
    28. Jake LaMotta
    29. Sandy Saddler
    30. Terry McGovern
    31. Billy Conn
    32. Jose Napoles
    33. Ruben Olivares
    34. Emile Griffith
    35. Marvin Hagler
    36. Eder Jofre
    37. Thomas Hearns
    38. Larry Holmes
    39. Oscar De La Hoya
    40. Evander Holyfield
    41. Ted "Kid" Lewis
    42. Alexis Arguello
    43. Marco Antonio Barrera
    44. Pernell Whitaker
    45. Carlos Monzon
    46. Roy Jones Jr.
    47. Bernard Hopkins
    48. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
    49. Erik Morales
    50. Mike Tyson
     
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  3. Commando

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    Bernard Hopkins top 20? ten spots ahead of Jones? What a joke.

    Pacquaio at number 8? What a joke.

    Your list? What a joke.
     
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  4. Boilermaker

    Boilermaker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This is a pretty reasonable list, but you forgot the guy who won every major title from Lightweight to heavyweight that he competed in. That seems a particular problem given the criteria.
     
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  5. lora

    lora Fighting Zapata Full Member

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    I see no reason why Watanabe should be denied his rightful place in the top ten any longer.
     
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  6. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Come one, it's really not that bad considering what I was expecting when I clicked on the thread...and he's basically rendered the whole list reasonable (and meaningless) by taking into account social impact or whatever he said.

    Not bad.
     
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  7. WhataRock

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    Asero has come a long way over the years...his timelessness criteria has changed the way we make such lists forever.
     
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  8. GTWOSIX

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    ****in disgraceful, i'm sure you don't know enough of half the guys up there. just going by other lists and your biased opinion
     
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  9. Commando

    Commando Guest

    He's Fillipino give him a break.
     
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  10. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    These Top 50 lists are too 'watered down'.

    It should kept for the Top 10 only,,,,,,maybe Top 15.

    Like the Top 100 in football.

    Does anybody really care after Jim Brown and Dick Butkus.
     
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  11. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    1),,Sugar Ray Robinson
    2),,Joe Louis
    3),,Muhammad Ali
    4),,Rocky Marciano
    5),,Jack Dempsey

    Based on,,,Accomplishment, Ability and Impact

    Ask any stranger on an American street,,,,,,man or woman, to name 5 great boxers.

    That's about all they would come up with,,,,,,,,,Joe Gans????????
     
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  12. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    oh so this is a popularity contest.?
    What a Harry Greb, A Sam Langford, a Fitz did as smaller men, outshines all the above...To cite "any stranger on the street ", is not a serious post..ESB classic deserves better....
     
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  13. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    For the so-called boxing historians,,,,,,,,,,,yes that 'long list' means something.

    But really, how can you rate a guy like Bob Fitzsimmons.

    Or are you just looking at a few spots on his boxing record?

    How did his accomplishments impact you?
     
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  14. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What did 160 pound Fitz accomplish, ? Read boxing history and know he was virtually unbeatable as a middleweight, and later on to make money at 160-65,he flattened powerful heavyweights as Peter Maher twice,Gus Ruhlin, iron-clad Tom Sharkey[the Marciano of his day strenghwise] James j Corbett, etc... Not bad for a'fighting machine on stilts ", Ruby Robert. What 160 pound fighter you can cite, can emulate the immortal Bob Fitzimmons ?
     
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  15. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes,,,,but what impact did he have in boxing back then.
    Other than being very very good.

    Jess Willard had a bigger impact on boxing than Ruby Red.
     
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