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Top boxing greats before Joe Louis first entered into the professional boxing ranks were John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Jack Dempsey & Max Baer.


How do you think John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Jack Dempsey & Max Baer should rank?

In comparison to the great professional boxers from other respective eras?


Such as Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali?


Do you think that John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Jack Dempsey & Max Baer should rank considerably lower than Joe Louis &/or Muhammad Ali?



How do you think that John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Jack Dempsey & Max Baer should rank in comparison to Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson &/or Lennox Lewis?

Jack Johnson, Jack Sharkey, James Corbett, Peter Jackson, and Sam Langford deserve to be in this discussion. I personal rank them all above Baer

Sam McVea, Joe Jeannette, Harry Wills and Tommy Burns there abouts too.

Different eras...

The older guys tend to have much better pre-championship records. And the more modern guys much better title reigns.

Johnson and Dempsey pretty much cleaned out the divisions before winning the title. Then once they had it their reigns were not great by modern standards.