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Since this is history let only include original 8 weight classes to make it less complicated either way what are you guys top 10?

Heavyweights:
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Joe Louis
3. Jack Johnson
4. Rocky Marciano
5. Jack Dempsey
6. Evander Holyfield
7. Larry Holmes
8. George Foreman
9. Joe Frazier
10. Lennox Lewis

Light-Heavyweights
1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3. Michael Spinks
4. Gene Tunney
5. Tommy Loughran
6. Bob Foster
7. Roy Jones, Jr.
8. Billy Conn
9. Maxie Rosenbloom
10. Jimmy Bivins or Lloyd Marshall

Middleweights
1. Carlos Monzon
2. Marvelous Marvin Hagler
3. Sugar Ray Robinson
4. Harry Greb
5. Stanley Ketchel
6. Dick Tiger
7. Bernard Hopkins
8. Jake LaMotta
9. Holman Williams
10. Tiger Flowers

Welterweights:
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Emile Griffith
5. Kid Gavilan
6. Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles
7. Charley Burley
8. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
9. Carmen Basilio
10. Barbados Joe Walcott

Lightweights:
1. Roberto Duran
2. Joe Gans
3. Benny Leonard
4. Pernell Whitaker
5. Ike Williams
6. Carlos Ortiz
7. Joe Brown
8. Tony Canzoneri
9. Sugar Shane Mosley
10. Henry Armstrong

Featherweights:
1. Willie Pep
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Sandy Saddler
4. Salvador Sanchez
5. Kid Chocolate
6. Battling Battalino
7. Freddie Miller
8. Eusebio Pedroza
9. George Dixon
10. Alexis Arguello

Bantamweights:
1. Eder Jofre
2. Panama Al Brown
3. Carlos Zarate
4. Terry McGovern
5. Ruben Olivares
6. Fighting Harada
7. Jimmy Barry
8. Manuel Ortiz
9. Jeff Chandler
10. Lupe Pintor

Flyweights: a weight class that doesn't receive much love.
1. Jimmy Wilde
2. Pascual Perez
3. Miguel Canto
4. Fidel La Barba
5. Benny Lynch
6. Betulio Gonzalez
7. Pone Kingpetch
8. Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez
9. Betulio Gonzalez
10. Chartchai Chionoi or Sot Chitalada

Note: I will take off Barbados Joe Walcott off the welterweight list and put the great Tommy Hearns at position #10.

Guys like the great Sam Langford, Packey McFarland, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jimmy McLarnin and Barney Ross for example, were hard for me to classify them at any of the original weight divisions because they fought in different weight classes.

Langford is one of those examples. I have him rated at #20 at heavyweight, but, his resume in other weight classes wasn't clear where and what weight class he really belongs. The same with Fitzsimmons.