Ring Magazine's 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years

[ThatOne]

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Joe Louis
5. Roberto Duran
6. Willie Pep
7. Harry Greb
8. Benny Leonard
9. Sugar Ray Leonard
10. Pernell Whitaker
11. Carlos Monzon
12. Rocky Marciano
13. Ezzard Charles
14. Archie Moore
15. Sandy Saddler
16. Jack Dempsey
17. Marvin Hagler
18. Julio Cesar Chavez
19. Eder Jofre
20. Alexis Arguello
21. Barney Ross
22. Evander Holyfield
23. Ike Williams
24. Salvador Sanchez
25. George Foreman
26. Kid Gavilian
27. Larry Holmes
28. Mickey Walker
29. Ruben Olivares
30. Gene Tunney
31. Dick Tiger
32. Fighting Harada
33. Emile Griffith
34. Tony Canzoneri
35. Aaron Pryor
36. Pascual Perez
37. Miguel Canto
38. Manuel Ortiz
39. Charley Burley
40. Carmen Basilio
41. Michael Spinks
42. Joe Frazier
43. Khaosai Galaxy
44. Roy Jones Jr.
45. Tiger Flowers
46. Panama Al Brown
47. Kid Chocolate
48. Joe Brown
49. Tommy Loughran
50. Bernard Hopkins
51. Felix Trinidad
52. Jake LaMotta
53. Lennox Lewis
54. Wilfredo Gomez
55. Bob Foster
56. Jose Napoles
57. Billy Conn
58. Jimmy McLarnin
59. Pancho Villa
60. Carlos Ortiz
61. Bob Montgomery
62. Freddie Miller
63. Benny Lynch
64. Beau Jack
65. Azumah Nelson
66. Eusebio Pedroza
67. Thomas Hearns
68. Wilfred Benitez
69. Antonio Cervantes
70. Ricardo Lopez
71. Sonny Liston
72. Mike Tyson
73. Vicente Saldivar
74. Gene Fullmer
75. Oscar De La Hoya
76. Carlos Zarate
77. Marcel Cerdan
78. Flash Elorde
79. Mike McCallum
80. Harold Johnson

[macaca]

Shoot me down please if you wish, but is it totally ridiculous for Naseem Hamed to be included near the bottom of that list somewhere?

[ThatOne]

Shoot me down please if you wish, but is it totally ridiculous for Naseem Hamed to be included near the bottom of that list somewhere?

It's harder to post because of format but not that much different than ESPN's list at first glance.

[Ezzard]

Pryor, Jones Jr and Trinidad all above Hearns????

[SaadOffTheDeck]

The top 10 isn't terrible, though Charles should be a clear top 4, things go down hill starting with Marciano, Dempsey & Chavez all being considerably too high.

I don't see Pryor as top 100.

As usual, Tommy doesn't get his just due.

[klompton]

Shoot me down please if you wish, but is it totally ridiculous for Naseem Hamed to be included near the bottom of that list somewhere?

Totally ridiculous. He should be nowhere near that list. He shouldnt even be allowed to read it.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

And no Luis Manuel Rodriguez is interesting.

Good call.

[ThatOne]

Joe Frazier is too low.

[gilgamesh]

I'm pretty sure this list pre-dates the 2003 100 Greatest Punchers list from The Ring. Do you know the Time Period that Ring printed this list ThatOne?

[macaca]

Shoot me down please if you wish, but is it totally ridiculous for Naseem Hamed to be included near the bottom of that list somewhere?

Totally ridiculous. He should be nowhere near that list. He shouldnt even be allowed to read it.

Why, in case he eats it?

[stevedoc]

holyfield above larry holmes i don't see that . and ricardo lopez @70 surely that's a bit low

[SaadOffTheDeck]

I wouldn't have Lopez that high. Holy/Holmes is close factoring in Cruiserweight though I think I would side with you.

[elmersalsa]

No greats like Holman Williams and Luis Manuel Rodriguez in this list. Felix "Tito" Trinidad should not be in. And if he does, he should have been in the 70s, just like Oscar De La Hoya.

The great Aaron Pryor at 35 was too high of a rating, but to me, he is a top 100 fighter.
The great Roy Jones, Jr too high for this rating, too. So is Lennox Lewis. Too high at 53.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Holman is a terrible omission. He should be in the top 20 or 30.

[elmersalsa]

The great Jack "Kid" Berg from England was excluded too. What a shame.

[Ambling Alp II]

Never understood why Basilio constantly gets ranked way ahead of Fullmer. Fullmer won the head to head, was better against common opponents, beat better overall competition, and lost less often.

Johnson at #80 is too low and Conn at #57 is too high.

Hagler seems a bit high at #17. Hearns at #67 is silly. Both should be somewhere in the 20s.

As for Trinidad, the only explanation is that the list was before his embarrassing losses to Hopkins and Wright. No way he should be in the top 100.

[polecateddy]

Larry Holmes at 27 and Lennox Lewis at 53. Pigs arse!

[jezzamundo]

Hearns is way too low, so is Charles.

[King Carlos]

Never understood why Basilio constantly gets ranked way ahead of Fullmer. Fullmer won the head to head, was better against common opponents, beat better overall competition, and lost less often.

He was also a Welterweight, whereas Fullmer was a Middleweight. Pound for pound I'd rank Basilio ahead of Fullmer, although I think highly of the latter as well.

Conn at #57 is too high.

Dogshit. One of the most underrated fighters ever.

[King Carlos]

The great Jack "Kid" Berg from England was excluded too. What a shame.

Hack.

[Ambling Alp II]

Never understood why Basilio constantly gets ranked way ahead of Fullmer. Fullmer won the head to head, was better against common opponents, beat better overall competition, and lost less often.

He was also a Welterweight, whereas Fullmer was a Middleweight. Pound for pound I'd rank Basilio ahead of Fullmer, although I think highly of the latter as well.

Conn at #57 is too high.

Dogshit. One of the most underrated fighters ever.

Basilio fought at middleweight as well. Actually most of his most important fights were at middleweight. He also lost at welterweight quite a bit. Fullmer was clearly better.

Conn was great, but there were more than 56 fighters that were better. Harold Johnson was better, and he was 23 places behind him.