Your top ten best all time

1 SRR
2 Armstrong
3 Greb
4 Langford
5 Charles
6 Fitzsimmons
7 Gans
8 Louis
9 Ali
10 Benny Leonard

My list is not complete but this is the way it seems to be shaping up

 

Any others you want reports on?

 

Anybody pre 1920’s

 

My opinion is constantly changing still TBH.

I think the top 6 is Bob Fitzsimmons, Sam Langford, Harry Greb, Henry Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson and Ezzard Charles. It'd take a lot for me to put someone else in the top 6, they're all so strong it honestly feels wrong putting any of them out of the top 3. I'd maybe order them
Bob FItzsimmons
Ezzard Charles
Harry Greb
Henry Armstrong
Sam Langford
Sugar Ray Robinson

There's a lot of others I could put in the next 4, I'll say Gans, Wilde, McFarland, and Burley for now, but not at all firmly, there's a load I could easilly swap them about with including Duran, Mayweather, Louis etc.

 

Cool, I stuck a few more in the Creedon thread which I found a while ago. I find it funny how someone who fought Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy and Joe Walcott ended with so little online about them.

 

Did you gather enough on Wilde? I know you were looking for some stuff on him a couple of months ago

 

Dunno, I can get more if you want. I don't think I can get anything new since someone researched it fairly extensively, so it just depends how many reports you want to see.

 

Well outside of work and family time I live breathe and talk sports...so some weeks I have more time to read sometimes less...but I am usually digging something up....right now my focus is the lighter weights, and the hardest place to find info/ratings/accurate results is pre 1920’s it seems

 

Once I've finished the Walcott thread I plan on doing one on George Dixon. I actually wanted to look into Jimmy Barry, but it turned out to be pretty hard to find much of anything on him.

 

1- Gans
2- Kalambay
3- Duran
4- Armstrong
5- Robinson
6- Charles
7- Leonard (Benny)
8- Langford
9- Burley
10- Louis

 

1 Duran & Monzon

3 Wilfredo Gomez
4. Alexis Arguello. Antonio Cervantes

6 Eder Jofre
7 Napoles
8. Cuevas
9 Zarate
10 PedrozaSanchez

 

Could you explain why you put Gans at number 1, and Kalambay at number 2? (not saying you're wrong, just interested in your reasoning)

 

On a head to head basis, I see them outboxing any lightweight or middleweight. Plus Gans was long-time champion, and Kalambay schooled (yes, schooled) Mike McCallum (Mike, ****ing, McCallum; the best 154lber ever).

They were like better Floyd Mayweathers, and fought the very best.