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This is my personal list of top 200 Boxers of all-time.
personally i use this criteria:

accomplishment, resume, historical significance, overall ability dominance,
longetivity and mainsteam appeal

I consider top 100 to be ATG while 101-120 to be borderline ATG...


1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Harry Greb
5. Sam Langford
6. Joe Louis
7. Ezzard Charles
8. Roberto Duran
9. Willie Pep
10. Benny Leonard

11. Ray Leonard
12. Manny Pacquiao
13. Pernell Whitaker
14. Archie Moore
15. Bob Fitzsimmons
16. Joe Gans
17. Carlos Monzon
18. Marvin Hagler
19. Barney Ross
20. Mickey Walker
21. Gene Tunney
22. Rocky Marciano
23. Barbados Joe Walcott
24. Alexis Arguello
25. Sandy Saddler
26. Kid Gavilan
27. Julio Cesar Chavez
28. Jimmy Wilde
29. Roy Jones Jr
30. Bernard Hopkins

31. Tony Canzoneri
32. Charley Burley
33. Thomas Hearns
34. Ike Williams
35. Emile Griffith
36. Jack Johnson
37. Lennox Lewis
38. Evander Holyfield
39. Eder Jofre
40. Jack Dempsey

41. Salvador Sanchez
42. Stanley Ketchel
43. Michael Spinks
44. Jose Napoles
45. Floyd Mayweather Jr
46. Jimmy McLarnin
47. Tommy Loughran
48. Larry Holmes
49. Ruben Olivares
50. Carlos Ortiz

51. Fighting Harada
52. Wilfredo Gomez
53. Bob Foster
54. Billy Conn
55. Dick Tiger
56. Panama Al Brown
57. George Foreman
58. Joe Frazier
59. Aaron Pryor
60. Ted Kid Lewis
61. Luis Manuel Rodriguez
62. Terry McGovern
63. Tommy Ryan
64. Abe Attel
65. Jack Britton
66. Tiger Flowers
67. Kid Chocolate
68. Jake LaMotta
69. Ricardo Lopez
70. Manuel Ortiz
71. Carmen Basilio
72. Oscar De La Hoya
73. Mike Tyson
74. Carlos Zarate
75. Wilfred Benitez

76. Felix Trinidad
77. Erik Morales
78. Marco Antonio Barrera
79. Jim Jeffries
80. Shane Mosley
81. Pancho Villa
82. Azumah Nelson
83. Packey McFarland
84. Marcel Cerdan
85. Miguel Canto
86. Pascual Perez
87. Juan Manuel Marquez
88. Vicente Saldivar
89. Flash Elorde
90. George Dixon
91. Mike McCallum
92. Joe Calzaghe
93. Harry Wills
94. Holman Williams
95. John Dundee
96. Joe Brown
97. Gene Fullmer
98. Jim Driscoll
99. Sonny Liston
100. Antonio Cervantes

101. Non Pareil Jack Dempsey
102. Beau Jack
103. Nicolino Locche
104. Duilio Loi
105. Khaosai Galaxy
106. Benny Lynch
107. Freddie Welsh
108. Philidelphia Jack O'Brien
109. James Toney
110. Jimmy Bivins
111. Harold Johnson
112. Bob Montgomery
113. Lloyd Marshall
114. Maxie Rosenbloom
115. John Henry Lewis
116. Eusebio Pedroza
117. Freddie Miller
118. Lou Ambers
119. Jeff Fenech
120. Tommy Gibbons
121. Battling Nelson
122. Young Stribling
123. Mike Gibbons
124. Johnny Kilbane
125. Young Griffo
126. Vitalai Klitschko
127. Wladimir Klitschko
128. Pete Herman
129. Kosta Tszyu
130. Jack Dillon

131. Tony Zale
132. Nino Benvenuti
133. Ken Buchanan
134. Winky Wright
135. Jack Kid Berg
136. Fidel Labarba
137. Jack Blackburn
138. Jack McAuliffe
139. Georges Carpentier
140. Johnny Tapia
141. Jersey Joe Walcott
142. Sammy Angott
143. Orlando Canizales
144. Owen Moran
145. Battling Levinsky
146. Midget Wolgast
147. Fritzie Zivic
148. Joe Jeannette
149. Kid McCoy
150. Freddie Steele

151. Lew Tendler
152. Frankie Genaro
153. Floyd Patterson
154. Esteban De Jesus
155. Kid Williams
156. Joe Lynch
157. Les Darcy
158. Michael Carbajal
159. Nigel Benn
160. Chris Eubank
161. Billy Papke
162. Frank Klaus
163. Jack Delaney
164. Israel Vazquez
165. Rafael Marquez
166. Humberto Gonzales
167. Terry Norris
168. Jim Barry
169. Jung-Koo Chang
170. Tommy Burns
171. John Coulon
172. Joey Giardello
173. Ismael Laguna
174. Teddy Yarosz
175. Ken Norton
176. Riddick Bowe
177. Max Schmelling
178. Carlos Palomino
179. Joey Maxim
180. Jose Luis Castillo
181. Sam McVey
182. Hector Camacho
183. Dwight Qawi
184. Ivan Calderon
185. Ad Wolgast
186. Jeff Chandler
187. Diego Corrales
188. Naseem Hamed
189. Matthew Saad
190. Little Red Lopez
191. Billy Graham
192. Miguel Cotto
193. Willie Ritchie
194. Hilario Zapata
195. Jiro Watanabe
196. Kid Lavigne
197. Myung Woo Yuh
198. Joel Casamayor
199. Darius Michalczewski
200. Rosendo Alvarez

I disagree with the concept that historical significance & mainstream appeal should be factors in what makes a fighter, "great," for reasons I imagine most understand without me explaining.

That said, I've never compiled a list anywhere close to the top two-hundred, so well done

Can I ask your reasoning just for the top five?

Mainstream appeal should be irrelevant, I've done a top100 and it's a brutal task. Very little difference between 35 and 85. I would have plenty of differences but the only thing i find outrageous is the placing of the Klitschko's. I can't see a place in the top 200 for them if you combined their careers.

I can't criticize someone's list unless I can create a much acceptable one..
200 list..wow its either hardwork or just throw the names out there.

overall very good.

I also don't think mainstream appeal and historical significance should considered when rating how good a fighter was. Still overall, its a very good list.
My biggest problem is with Lou Ambers, Nino Benvenuti. and Dwight Qawi. Amber was only #118. That is way, way too low. He probably should be in the Top 50.
Benvenuti #132? Way too low. He certainly should be in the top 100.
Qawi at 183? He should be much higher, possibly in the Top 100.

Like most lists, Basilio (#71) is rated higher than Fullmer (#97). Yes, Basilio also won the welterweight title, but he wasn't a better fighter than Fullmer. Fullmer won the head to head matchup, beat more top fighters, and he didn't lose to inferior fighters nearly as often as Basilio.

As someone elase mentioned, the Klitschkos are way too high. Neither belong in the Top 200.

Still, overall a good list. No two people are going to agree on everything.

Good list, must of took a hell of a long time!

I'd have Buchanan #133 higher. Zapata slightly higher but all in all well done