I am taking another stab at it after some great discussions lately Based on a both accomplishments and head to head 1. Harry Greb 2. Marvin Hagler 3. Sugar Ray Robinson 4. Carlos Monzon 5. Bob Fitzsimmons 6. Freddie Steele 7. Bernard Hopkins 8. Mickey Walker 9. Charley Burley 10. D Tiger 11. Stanley Ketchel 12. Holman Williams 13. Mike Gibbons 14. Gennady Golovkin 15. Rodrigo Valdez 16. Lloyd Marshall 17. Jake Lamotta 18. Emile Griffith 19. Marcel Cerdan 20. Tony Zale 21. Fred Apostoli 22. Ezzard Charles 23. Roy Jones Jr 24. Joey Giardello 25. James Toney 26. Tiger Flowers 27. Teddy Yarosz 28. Nino Benvenuti 29. Michael Nunn 30. Marcel Thil
Interesting list mate. Personally i would have Monzon sneaking above Hagler and Valdez would be a lot lower. Fullmer, Conn and Overlin might be close too.
I always like your lists. Making lists is hard work. Depending on how much stock you place on h2h over accomplishments, I feel that a 25 year old Sam Langford would handle a lot of those guys.
Nice work Suzie Q. I am just getting back into boxing and top 30 would be hard for me to do. I will give doing top 10 a shot 1. Hagler 2. Monzon 3. Greb 4. SRR 5. Fitz 6. Walker 7. Hopkins 8. Burley 9. Ketchel 10. Tiger I did not realise how good Steele was. Based on your high ranking, i will try and find more of him. Greg probably has the greatest resume ever but i find it hard to rank him #1 without proper footage of him fighting.
Improved. I see you moved Ketchel down. Too high for my liking is Tiger, Steele, Williams, Gibbons, and Valdez. Too low for my liking is Roy Jones ( Way too low ) , Charles, Cerdan and Toney.
For me the tail end of Monzon puts Marvin to the sword. He comfortably best the 2nd best middle whilst Marvin lost to a welter albeit a great one. Valdes is a good fighter but 160 is rank with talent and resume.
Jones rates highly Head to Head but he didnt fight enough at 160. Charles beat Burley twice in his prime . better wins than Jones had over Hopkins Cerdan doesn’t have the resume to rate higher. He looks good on film against very low level opponents Steele accomplished a lot, more than enough to rate well within top 10 Steele and cerdan have comparable records but Steele’s quality of opposition blows away marcels
Papp at 5? His work was done as an amateur he didn't do anything noteworthy as a pro as he was an older man by then. I'm a huge Papp fan but this is ridiculous. McClellan at 11 Graziano at 17 and your gonna lecture me on Barney Ross P4P standings. You've lost your mind man
And a win over pre prime Hopkins who hadn't beaten a top 10 fighter isn't huge for the resume side either. He has to be almost solely rated on H2H and even tho he rates huge in this regard resume still holds him way back in a blend obviously.