Who are the top 10 welterweights of all time?

I'll give it a shot. In no particular order except for the greatest fighter I ever saw.
!# Ray Robinson
Tommy Ryan
Jack Britton
Tommy West
Barbados Joe Walcott
Mickey Walker
Dave Shade
Barney Ross
Kid Gavilan
Ray Leonard
Tommy Hearns
P.S. I know there are 11 names, Executive Privilege please...
Tommy Hearns

 

Can't recall off the top of my head to be fair.

Robinson
Leonard

They were my top two. Can't remember the rest but I think De La Hoya, Gavilan, Walker, Curry, Napoles. Not sure who else was there.

 

Probably a bit too contemporary for many on here.

1 Ray Robinson
2 Ray Leonard
3 Kid Gavilan
4 Emile Griffith
5 Henry Armstrong
6 Jose Napoles
7 Felix Trinidad
8 Oscar De La Hoya
9 Thomas Hearns
10 Carmen Basilio

 

What a division. That said, lots of the old greats here. Lately we've had some very goods, but not greats. Here goes...

Robinson
Walker
Ross
Napoles
Griffith
Armstrong
Gavilan
Leonard
Basilio
10th choose from Hearns or Britton or ?

 

Robinson
Leonard
Gavilan
Ryan
Britton
Armstrong
Griffith
Rodriguez
Billy Smith

 

Where would you guys figure in Mayweather?

 

1.Floyd Mayweather
2.Manny Pacquiao
3.Oscar De La Hoya
4.Felix Trinidad
5.Shane Mosley
6.Miguel Cotto
7.Zab Judah
8.Paul Williams
9.Antonio Margarito
10.Tim Bradley

jk

 

Surprised you don't have Henry Armstrong on there Burt.

 

Tricky. Insanely deep division and I've not pondered a top ten for a while.

1) Robinson 2) Ray Leonard 3) Armstrong 4) Napoles 5) Gavilan 6) Griffith 7) Barbados Joe Walcott 8) Britton 9) Ross 10) Hearns

 

MR M, I regard Henry Armstrong the best modern featherweight EVER, and along with Joe Gans, Benny Leonard, Ike Williams and Roberto Duran, the greatest lightweights ever. But I recall Fritzie Zivic decisioning Henry in 1940 when Armstrong was 28 years old as a WW, then in 1941 Tkoing
Armstrong when he was but 29 years of age. And in 1943 I watched the
lightweight champion Beau Jack beat Armstrong in MSG..A few months later at MSG, we in the crowd watched Ray Robinson "TOY" with his idol to win easily over the great FW and lightweight former champion. My point is Henry was in his prime as a FW and lightweight....But he would give any WW a helluva tussle, who was not named Ray Robinson...

 

Got it.

 

1. Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Ray Leonard
4. Kid Gavilan
5. Jose Napoles
6. Charley Burley
7. Emile Griffith
8. Thomas Hearns
9. Barney Ross
10. Jack Britton

HM: Basilio, Walker, Ted Kid Lewis, McClarnin, Ryan, Walcott, Rodriguez, et al.

Edit: Deep division. Ask me tomorrow, and the list would be different.

 

I think the welterweight division has a strong claim to be the strongest and deepest division, both currently and historically.

 

1. Sugar Ray Leonard
2. Sugar Ray Robinson
3. Thomas Hearns
4. Donald Curry
5. Carmen Basilio
6. Emile Griffith
7. Oscar De La Hoya
8. Marlon Starling
9. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
10. Felix Trinidad