Top fighters of each decade.

Whats the started point??

100000 BC lol.

I suppose I can start with 1900 and up.


1900
Jim Jeff,
Joe Gans,
Bat Nelson
Joe Walcott
Ketchal

1910
Jack Johnson
Sam Langford
Les Darcy
Jack Dillon
Ted Kid Lewis or Jack Britton.

1920's.
Harry Greb
Jack Dempsey
Micky Walker
Benny Leonard
Johnny Dundee

1930's
Joe Louis
Barney Ross
Henry Armstrong
Toney Caniz
Jimmy McLarin

1940's
Joe Louis
Ray Robinson
Jake Lamotta
Billy Conn
Toney Zale

1950's
Rocky Marciano
Ray Robinson
Carman Basilio
Archie Moore
Kid Gavilan

1960's
Ali
Liston
Carlos Ortiz
Dick Tiger
Emile Griffith

1970's
Ali again
Frazier
Foreman
Duran
Carlos Monzon

1980's
Tyson
Holmes
Duran
Hagler
SRL

1990's
Holyfiled
Jones Jr
DLH
Chavez Sr
Whitaker

2000's
Hopkins
Tito
Mayweather
Pac
and Lewis


Yeah I know it has flaws, but I gave it a try.

 

Billy Conn and Tony Zale were better than Ezzard Charles and Willie Pep? That's news to me.

 

Well when I reach the 40's, there names didnt pop up in my head at the time lol.


I was just getting 5 fighters in each decade.

I suppose the Zale Rocky wars had the thing in my mind. Also I can see Conn being over Charles.

 

Ike Williams over Zale and Conn?

 

I was joking with him. He obviously forgot those two. That's the issue with making an extensive list like this, you're always going to forget some people. I'll have my lists for you later. If I posted it right away I'd just be editing it over and over again once a name I'd forgotten kicked in.

More than likely I won't be able to keep it to 5 names per decade.

 

**** it, I'll just give you what I got so far. There will be many more additions, hopefully with me being helped out by the cast here on who I've forgotten. A lot of these fighters could've been considered in multiple decades, but I just decided to keep each fighter's name in one or the other.

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this decade would be floy, pac, hop and then who?

of discussion:
mosley has a good case, lennox lewis has like 7 fights but a case, joel casamayor is probably overlooked by many but good resume and h2h, marquez has no signature win but great h2h and solid resume of close calls, winky has a good case and the win over tito is reputable, cotto beat a lot of world class fighters but no signature he is clearly short, wlad had some poor losses but put it together against some okay comp (main challenge was the hungry peter), castillo lost all the tough ones but was in a great fight and arguably beat the main man, barrera has a solid case for sure but fell off of late, joe calzaghe has 3 top class wins and dominated the world class guys he fought, ivan calderon is a great boxer and all but we know none of us will include him.

i am sure i overlooked somebody, probably multiple people but ill go with......................

pac, may, hop, calzaghe and then winky

 

No order whatsoever. Just whoever came to mind first.

 

Floyd Patterson needs to be in anyones 50's list.

 

2000-09:
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr
3. Bernard Hopkins
4. Marco Antonio Barrera
5. Erik Morales

1990-99:
1. Pernell Whitaker
2. Roy Jones Jr
3. Oscar de la Hoya
4. Lennox Lewis
5. Ricardo Lopez

1980-89:
1. Sugar Ray Leonard
2. Marvin Hagler
3. Mike Tyson
4. Thomas Hearns
5. Michael Spinks

1970-79:
1. Roberto Duran
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Carlos Monzon
4. Alexis Arguello
5. Jose Napoles

I'll try and do the rest later, noticeably absent is Chavez, maybe him in the nineties over Lopez?