Top fighters of each decade.

news to me too

 

LOL Gotta Love Sweetpea - his first reply had me laughing my ass off for about 5 minutes!! - and then an awesome list from him too to follow up - top man sweatpea - at work at the moment so if I get a chance later I'll put mine up when i get home

 

Sweet pea covers it

 

Except no Floyd Patterson anywhere.

 

Not by a long shot. I must've missed a large amount of fighters worthy of mention. I'm just too lazy to go over them right now because it took me long enough to come up with that list.

 

Swap Tito & Lewis for Morales & Barrera in the 2000s.....
Swap Duran for Hearns in the 80s.....
& I dont care who you remove from the 40s but get Willie Pep in there immediately......

 

40's
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Joe Louis
3. Ezzard Charles
4. Jake LaMotta
5. Willie Pep

50's
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Rocky Marciano
3. Archie Moore
4. Sandy Saddler
5. Kid Gavilan

60's
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Sonny Liston
3. Carlos Ortiz
4. Jose Napoles
5. Ruben Olivares

70's
1. Roberto Duran
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Carlos Monzon
4. Joe Frazier
5. Alexis Arguello

80's
1. Sugar Ray Leonard
2. Marvellous Marvin Hagler
3. Salvador Sanchez
4. Thomas Hearns
5. Aaron Pryor

90's
1. Pernell Whitaker
2. Roy Jones Jr
3. Evander Holyfield
4. Julio Cesar Chavez
5. Lennox Lewis

00's
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr
3. Bernard Hopkins
4. Marco Antonio Barrera
5. Erik Morales

 

i still don't think anyone has come up with a suitable top 5 of the past decade. after floyd, bhop and pacman there is a variety of choices from barrera, morales, lewis even tito. but all of those choices are highly questionable, lewis being the best of that group but with only 5 yrs of activity. barrera peaked at begining of decade and had some bad losses as well, morales peaked at similar time and beat pacman too but should be just short of the top 5. i really think winky is a better choice than morales. anyone have some thoughts on this past decade.

 

2000-2009
Chris Byrd
Manny Pacquiao
Chad Dawson
Antonio Tarver
Vitali Klitschko




1990-1999
Roy Jones
James Toney
David Tua
Evander Holyfield
Oscar Delahoya



1980-1989
Mike Tyson
Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler
Mike McCallum
Julian Jackson

considerred : Starling , Curry , Duran

1970-1979

Muhammad Ali
Carlos Monzon

i do not know much about this decade , i could search for names , but why ?

1960-1969
Muhammad Ali

like the 1970's , i could give names but why ? i know the knocks on them.


1950-1959
Rocky Marciano
Ray Robinson
Jersey Joe Walcott
Ezzard Charles


i know Archie Moore is really popular here but who did he stop , let alone beat of these ? he was stopped himself however , and yes , he has a points win in his single fight against walcott.