Top 100 All-Time Greats: Post your list here...

[HattonTheHammer]

These all-time great lists are impossible.

When trying to justify one fighters great attributes over anothers, the Roy-Hopkins argument alone shows how it's impossible to avoid hypocritical inconsistencies. Even though Roy BEAT Hopkins, he is still not regarded a better fighter by many.

The problem with boxing, compared with other sports, is most fighters only meet ONCE. It's rare to have rematches let alone a number of fights to establish the dominant fighter (with older exceptions like Robinson-LaMotta). And because of this almost every match has an excuse attached to it.

Too old
Too young
Too small
Past his best
Weight drained
Robbed

Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses.

completely agree, even things like glove sizes would have to be brought into play

Its not hard to see that fighters like leonard, robinson, ali, frazier would of been great great fighters in any given era.

But then you reach the questionable guys like jack johnson, marciano, charles etc and wonder if their records really were buffed out through fighting just ordinary guys instead of true greats.


PS:I know ive already asked this question but..........


PERNELL WHITAKER, above the likes of hagler, lewis, hopkins


thats about as bizzare as eugene williams scoring the 1st holyfield, lewis fight 115-113 for evander!!!!!!!

[ICB]

These all-time great lists are impossible.

When trying to justify one fighters great attributes over anothers, the Roy-Hopkins argument alone shows how it's impossible to avoid hypocritical inconsistencies. Even though Roy BEAT Hopkins, he is still not regarded a better fighter by many.

The problem with boxing, compared with other sports, is most fighters only meet ONCE. It's rare to have rematches let alone a number of fights to establish the dominant fighter (with older exceptions like Robinson-LaMotta). And because of this almost every match has an excuse attached to it.

Too old
Too young
Too small
Past his best
Weight drained
Robbed

Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses.

completely agree, even things like glove sizes would have to be brought into play

Its not hard to see that fighters like leonard, robinson, ali, frazier would of been great great fighters in any given era.

But then you reach the questionable guys like jack johnson, marciano, charles etc and wonder if their records really were buffed out through fighting just ordinary guys instead of true greats.


PS:I know ive already asked this question but..........


PERNELL WHITAKER, above the likes of hagler, lewis, hopkins


thats about as bizzare as eugene williams scoring the 1st holyfield, lewis fight 115-113 for evander!!!!!!!

Are you kidding me ? you don't know much about boxing if you don't think Pernell Whitaker is rated above those 3 fighters. He only lost 1 fight convincingly and that was when he was way past his best, against Felix Triniad and being on drugs too at the time aswell as inactivity.

Azumah Nelson
Julio Cesar Chavez = He beat him.
Diosbelys Hurtado
Jose Luis Ramirez = He beat him twice.
Roger Mayweather
Alfredo Layne = Win over Wilfredo Gomez, thats why i mention him.
Greg Haugen
Freddie Pendleton
Policarpo Diaz
Jorge Paez
Harold Brazier
Rafael Pineda
James McGirt x2
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Gary Jacobs
Wilfredo Rivera x2

Including 4 world titles a 4 different weightclasses. Also including 9 title defenses at Lightweight, and im including his loss over Jose Luis Ramirez, because he won that. That was a BS decision.

And 8 title defenses at Welterweight and im including his victory over Julio Cesar Chavez because he won that too. Or how about being P4P number 1 for a few years ? now do you believe he shouldn't be rated above those 3 fighters ?

Unless i read your comment wrong ? because im in shock you'd say that personally.

[JonesJrMayweather]

These all-time great lists are impossible.

When trying to justify one fighters great attributes over anothers, the Roy-Hopkins argument alone shows how it's impossible to avoid hypocritical inconsistencies. Even though Roy BEAT Hopkins, he is still not regarded a better fighter by many.

The problem with boxing, compared with other sports, is most fighters only meet ONCE. It's rare to have rematches let alone a number of fights to establish the dominant fighter (with older exceptions like Robinson-LaMotta). And because of this almost every match has an excuse attached to it.

Too old
Too young
Too small
Past his best
Weight drained
Robbed

Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses.

completely agree, even things like glove sizes would have to be brought into play

Its not hard to see that fighters like leonard, robinson, ali, frazier would of been great great fighters in any given era.

But then you reach the questionable guys like jack johnson, marciano, charles etc and wonder if their records really were buffed out through fighting just ordinary guys instead of true greats.


PS:I know ive already asked this question but..........


PERNELL WHITAKER, above the likes of hagler, lewis, hopkins


thats about as bizzare as eugene williams scoring the 1st holyfield, lewis fight 115-113 for evander!!!!!!!

Are you kidding me ? you don't know much about boxing if you don't think Pernell Whitaker is rated above those 3 fighters. He only lost 1 fight convincingly and that was when he was way past his best, against Felix Triniad and being on drugs too at the time aswell as inactivity.

Azumah Nelson
Julio Cesar Chavez = He beat him.
Diosbelys Hurtado
Jose Luis Ramirez = He beat him twice.
Roger Mayweather
Alfredo Layne = Win over Wilfredo Gomez, thats why i mention him.
Greg Haugen
Freddie Pendleton
Policarpo Diaz
Jorge Paez
Harold Brazier
Rafael Pineda
James McGirt x2
Julio Cesar Vasquez
Gary Jacobs
Wilfredo Rivera x2

Including 4 world titles a 4 different weightclasses. Also including 9 title defenses at Lightweight, and im including his loss over Jose Luis Ramirez, because he won that. That was a BS decision.

And 8 title defenses at Welterweight and im including his victory over Julio Cesar Chavez because he won that too. Or how about being P4P number 1 for a few years ? now do you believe he shouldn't be rated above those 3 fighters ?

Unless i read your comment wrong ? because im in shock you'd say that personally.

I can't believe you answered that....someone's questioning Sweet pea as p4p ATG...he's easily higher than bhop,lewis, and hagler...hagler only fought at MW. so P4P for him to me has always been silly....

[Mr140]

I cant believe how low you put Ray Leonard there is no way the fighters above him are better i mean i never seen him that low on list please tell me why you have him so low on the list Daxx because i have always consider him to be atg in the top 10 but i see you rate him much lower then i do and i like to know why you rate him so low just to ask dude.

[holmcall]

In most instances, the difference between these fighters was razor thin, but in order to validate my selections (as much as validation is even possible), I used the following guidelines in my first book in order to list the top 100 since 1950:

1. Still active


2) Was there a reasonable distribution regarding weight classifications?
Too many heavyweights means something is very wrong.2) Was there
a reasonable distribution regarding era?


3) Did I know enough about each boxer to make a qualitative judgment?
Have I ever seen Percy Bassett fight?


4) Did I benchmark? For example, if Joe Frazier is too far away from Rocky
Marciano, something is probably amiss.


5) Did I avoid personal bias in making the selections? Was Bobby Chacon a
valid choice?


6) Did Hall of Fame induction bias my selections?

[DaxxKahn]

I cant believe how low you put Ray Leonard there is no way the fighters above him are better i mean i never seen him that low on list please tell me why you have him so low on the list Daxx because i have always consider him to be atg in the top 10 but i see you rate him much lower then i do and i like to know why you rate him so low just to ask dude.

I like Ray and believe he is talented but some of his wins are the hugest gifts in boxing one way or another....

EG- Ray beat a weight drained unhealthy Duran (Yes Durans fault I know)..and a waaay past his best Duran, The Hagler fight goes the same....He retired with 40 fights, his time was short and his career wins are not all what they seem...

His best wins are over Benitez and Hearns 1...He has a lot of ham and eggers on his resume.....

For a 20 yr career and only 40 fights it does not do it for me.....Just my opp

[Mr140]

Well going to have to disagree because for one thing Benitez what ever shape he was in was Leonard first title fight and Duran the first fight i thought was close and i dont think Duran would of won if Leonard did not fight his fight so it goes both ways the way i see it the Hearns win well nothing really to debate about you bring up Hagler being old but the funney thing is that he was active Leonard was not and it was his first time at the weight had not fought top oppent in god knows how long reason he did not have many fights is because of layoffs i dont think we ever got to see a prime Leonard because of the Hearns fight i would say not to mention he held belts in WW,LMW,MW,SMW,LHW that in it self is a good achivement not many have done it and wont be to many more to Wilfred Benitez,Roberto Duran,Marvin Hagler,Donny Lalonde,Ayub Kalule, Thomas Hearns those are the best wins he has had and i just linked them because there are a few people wont know but they had good records Bernard to me fought alot of crap to in his regian daxx i just think that Leonard was the better all around fighter and better in the speed and power and foot work department and had the better wins and moved up in weight and captured more titles so it has to Leonard for me but its just a opion just wanted to see why you rated him so high and no Ray Leonard and you gave me your reason so i rep you for that always nice to hear what you had to say.

[DaxxKahn]

Well going to have to disagree because for one thing Benitez what ever shape he was in was Leonard first title fight and Duran the first fight i thought was close and i dont think Duran would of won if Leonard did not fight his fight so it goes both ways the way i see it the Hearns win well nothing really to debate about you bring up Hagler being old but the funney thing is that he was active Leonard was not and it was his first time at the weight had not fought top oppent in god knows how long reason he did not have many fights is because of layoffs i dont think we ever got to see a prime Leonard because of the Hearns fight i would say not to mention he held belts in WW,LMW,MW,SMW,LHW that in it self is a good achivement not many have done it and wont be to many more to Wilfred Benitez,Roberto Duran,Marvin Hagler,Donny Lalonde,Ayub Kalule, Thomas Hearns those are the best wins he has had and i just linked them because there are a few people wont know but they had good records Bernard to me fought alot of crap to in his regian daxx i just think that Leonard was the better all around fighter and better in the speed and power and foot work department and had the better wins and moved up in weight and captured more titles so it has to Leonard for me but its just a opion just wanted to see why you rated him so high and no Ray Leonard and you gave me your reason so i rep you for that always nice to hear what you had to say.

Actually Hagler being old was not what I meant..Though looking back at it sounded that way...I meant by saying ...Hagler fight the same....As in Ray was given a gift...My fault for wording it wrong.....Marvin was still on top of ther world when he faced Ray

And like I said in some other post though Hopkins has had such a long time at the top and has fought sooo many top level fighters./..he is 44 and still a P4P great...He has never been dominated...He has beaten other P4P fighters.....Before hios move to LGW if I had made this list Leonard would have been above him but fact is Bernard has managed to be a kingpin of 2 divisions,,,Moved up 2 divisions in his 40's...won the Ring title...and competed with the likes of Joe Calzaghe and dismantled the man who was feared in Pavlik....

Opps are opps there are no reAl right or wrong answers in these list...(Unless you have Charlie Zelenoff and Kid Thunder as #1 and #2)...Everyone rates fighters different ways....though most list are the same by people who know the sport it is just position of where the guys are on that changes..

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