From 1930-1956, nine men would hold the heavyweight crown. Photo / THE RING archives. The hope was to present the results in a way that gives something for everyone to sink their teeth into with the centerpiece being the identification of the rankings of the opponents of individual fighters, for the years when they were in the rankings of The Ring. 2 bantamweight in the world and was ranked the top contender at junior lightweight from the March to August 1929 issues. Basilio also had wins over former lightweight champions Lew Jenkins and Ike Williams after both had left contention. The as of date for the rankings in the August 1944 issue was likely incorrect and the results were amended accordingly. Kane and LaMotta were each missing a result. Michael Spinks (737.4 points; 31-1-0) Considered to be one of the best light heavyweights of all time, Michael Spinks (known as Jinx) held world championships in both the light heavyweight class (he was the undisputed champ from 1983 to 1985) and the lineal heavyweight class (from 1985 to 1988). Above welterweight, Nino Benvenuti won their series 2-1. ROCKY MARCIANO In a career that lasted 8 years from 1947 to 1955, Marciano left quite a mark on boxing history. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. After a standout amateur career, he turned pro in 1934. 1 contender was worth 10, etc. Louis is one of a group of seven fighters identified with between 30 and 39 wins against ranked opponents in the study. Missing Quality: Between wins over Diego Corrales and Jesus Chavez in a stellar 2001 campaign, Mayweather defeated Carlos Hernandez, who was unranked by The Ring at the time. While the nickname Bum of the Month Club lingers on, a deeper look reveals those bums to be an assortment of the best heavyweights in the world for a generation. Explaining some of the changes you will read: All-time great Henry Armstrong held featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles simultaneously. Join our newsletter to get info about latest events and deals! He was a Ring-rated fighter from bantamweight to lightweight. Their rankings in each category were then averaged into a final score. Top 10 Greatest Boxers Of All TimeMuhammad Ali. Image Credits: blackhistorymonth.org.uk Muhammad Ali is not only regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time but also the greatest athlete to ever exist.Sugar Ray Robinson. Image Credits: theepochtimes.com Speaking of great records, Sugar Ray Robinson. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Manny Pacquiao. Mike Tyson. Joe Louis. Sugar Ray Leonard. More items Missing Quality: Peps dominance at featherweight included recognizable names who werent far removed from contention when Pep defeated them. Freddie Steele TKO by 2 (1-) 160 01/37, Young Corbett III TKO by 5 (UR-) 160 05/37, Anton Christoforidis UD 15 (3) 175 07/41, Tami Mauriello SD 15* (4) 175 10/41, Bruce Woodcock KO by 8 (6+) Hvy 11/46, Tami Mauriello UD 10 (6+) Hvy 09/47, Tami Mauriello TKO 7 (6+) Hvy 12/47, Ezzard Charles RTD by 7 (1+) Hvy 09/49, First Ring Ranking: #9 Middleweight (March 1964), Last Ring Ranking: #7 Light Heavyweight (January 1969), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 7-2 (4 KO), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (1965-66). 1 contender spot from the April 1949 issue until earning recognition from The Ring as heavyweight champion in the December 1950 issue following a win over an unranked and recently unretired Joe Louis. The most formidable challenger in the war years may have been Jimmy Bivins. DeGrasse, before and after the loss to Salica, could occasionally be found near the bottom of the featherweight top ten. There are, after all, several active fighters on the list. Mayweather also briefly held the IBF belt in 2006. The final average score was used to order the fighters in each group for those who made the top 100. After leaving boxing, he became the first African-American to play on the Professional Golfers Association tour. Remarkably, after more than three years of political exclusion from the game, Ali skipped tune-ups and defeated two prominent contenders to set up his first of three fights with Joe Frazier. Win total ties were broken based on peak score. The lone loss in that stretch, a debated decision versus Elmer Ray, was avenged by knockout. 1 vs. No. Pep posted two wins over Jackie Wilson, in 1943 and 1946, both with Wilson outside the rankings. He won 11 straight matches in 1933 and then 22 consecutive bouts in 1937. At the time, Ali and Marciano were the only undefeated heavyweight champions in history and fans often debated who would win had they met in their primes. Nicknamed "Brown Bomber" for his fearsome fists, Joe Louis is considered one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time. Benitez would be ranked number one or two at Jr. middleweight well into 1984. Louis knocked out seven of them. Click here to read the introduction to the rankings feature that was published in the February 2022 issue. Seventeen of Louis 25 defenses came against ranked heavyweights, seven of them Rings No. Missing Quality: Charles is lauded by many, including biographer William Dettloff while writing for The Ring, as the greatest light heavyweight of all time. Missing Quality: Alis lost years between 1967 and 1970 will always leave room to wonder if he might have been able to surpass Louis division record of 25 consecutive title defenses. Losses worked in reverse. Kocsis had been ranked previously at flyweight and bantamweight, the latter as late as 1932. Benitez then captured the welterweight crown from Carlos Palomino before losing in his first defense to Sugar Ray Leonard. Toney would briefly rise to number one after a draw in the first of three fights with Mike McCallum, only to fall to number two after a controversial win over Dave Tiberi. WebNow looking through all 100 of the boxers Ring Magazine named and ranked would leave us, and you as the reader, here all day, so instead, wee decided to look into their top 30. Missing Quality: Richie Woodhall fell out of the top ten just a few months before a loss to Calzaghe in 2000 but had been a titlist in the class just two fights prior. Losses and draws to unranked fighters are part of that total and it doesnt reflect results against ranked opponents outside the scope of the study. Just three years later, he won the world heavyweight title, which he would retain until 1949 when he retired. He turned pro after the Olympics and went on to win titles in the lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight divisions. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. A bronze medalist at the 1996 Olympics, Mayweathers first win over a Ring-ranked opponent was also his first for a title (the WBC 130-pound strap). Group three was derived from fighters who scored in the top 75 of any of the three scoring categories or whose final scoring average was higher than what would otherwise be the bottom ten of the top 100 (70-100). His success continued well after he moved up the scale. The following Authors Note was penned on January 21, 2022. 92 and 93 on this very special list of greats. Montell Griffin UD 12 (4) 175 08/03, Bernard Hopkins L 12* (2) 160 09/06. Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight champion for the inaugural rankings in 1925 and was rated fourth. Draws against ranked opponents were worth half a win; draws against unranked opponents were a six-point deduction. Missing Quality: Basilio took a hard road to contention, picking up some losses along the way including decision defeats to a ranked Chuck Davey and Bill Graham. That included a 1941 campaign where Louis set a heavyweight record with seven defenses in a single year, five of them against Ring-rated contenders. Stuhley was unranked before either contest but had been ranked at middleweight earlier in 1936 and occasionally since 1932. 2-ranked bantamweight defeated the No. Willie Pastrano TKO 9* (C) 175 05/65, First Ring Ranking: #4 Light Heavyweight (January 1933), Last Ring Ranking: World Light Heavyweight Champion (January 1940), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 16-9-4 (4 KO, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (1935-39). Sugar Ray Robinson graces the cover of the December 1949 cover of The Ring. The world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, Joe Louis is one of A win over the champion of ones weight class, in a title or non-title fight, was worth 11 points, a No. 28 Jack Britton. Ali was Rings 1963 (as Cassius Clay), 1966 (retroactively), 1972 (with Carlos Monzon), 1974, 1975 and 1978 Fighter of the Year.He was in Rings Terence Crawford advanced his standing with a win over a ranked Shawn Porter while Vasiliy Lomachenko entered the top 100 with his latest win over a ranked Richard Commey. The NBA recognized the title change when Canzoneri stopped Jackie Kid Berg in three in 1931 with both Bergs junior welterweight crown and Canzoneris lightweight crown billed as at stake. 34 Marcel Cerdan. Was anything from 30 to 40 out of the question? Moore faced everyone in the famed murderers row of the 1930s and 40s, and while he didnt best them all, Moores remarkable durability allowed him to long outlast the field. Leonard retired with a record of 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts. The big punching Ray turned pro in 1933 and would spend most of the second half of the 1940s as a heavyweight contender. Anything that ends in a list that ranks fighters across eras is going to be open to debate, and the approach used to generate this list is no different. Basilio defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in a battle of champions to move up and capture the middleweight crown but fell short in two attempts at Gene Fullmer to regain the NBA title and closed his career with a loss to Rings middleweight champion Paul Pender. Web26 Eder Jofre. Tarver never lost to a fighter ranked outside the top five of their weight class. Writing in the July 1931 issue of The Ring, editor Nat Fleischers position came down to the scales, specifically that Berg could not lose his junior-welter crown when compelled to enter the ring at the lightweight limit., Ignacio Fernandez W 10 (2-) 126 07/29, Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (8+) 140 11/29], Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (4+) 140 04/30, Harry Dublinsky SD 10 (7) 135 07/32], Harry Dublinsky L 10 (3+) 147 10/34, Harry Dublinsky W 10 (1+) 147 11/34, Jimmy McLarnin UD 10 (1+) 147 06/36, First Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (March 1962), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Heavyweight (November 1980), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 32-4 (20 KOs, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1964-70, 74-78, 78). Salica achieved his first number one rating at bantamweight in the September 1935 issue and he would stay up and down in the top five for most of the next five years. 6, in the January 1942 issue. 1-ranked fighter became the 11-point win, deduction for an unranked loss was eleven points, and unranked draws were a 5.5-point deduction. All rights reserved. A missing win in the initial tabulation for former lightweight champion Ken Buchanan was also identified and incorporated, pushing Buchanan into the top 100. Emile Griffith graces the cover of the March 1965 issue of The Ring. Atilio Sabatino TKO 5 (5) 160 06/40], Eddie Booker TKO by 8 (UR) 160 03/44, Lloyd Marshall TKO 10 (2) 175 08/45], Jimmy Bivins KO by 6 (2+) Hvy 10/45, Holman Williams L 10 (1-) 160 12/45, Holman Williams TKO 11 (1-) 160 01/46, Ezzard Charles KO by 8 (1) 175 03/48, Oakland Billy Smith UD 10 (2) 175 06/48, Leonard Morrow KO by 1 (UR) 175 07/48, Charley Williams KO 7 (7) 175 02/49, Harold Johnson UD 10 (10) 175 06/49, Clinton Bacon DQ by 6 (UR) 175 07/49, Clarence Henry UD 10 (5+) Hvy 08/52, Harold Johnson TKO 14 (1) 175 09/54, Rocky Marciano KO by 9 (C) Hvy 11/55, Yolande Pompey TKO 10 (1) 175 07/56, Floyd Patterson KO by 5* (2) Hvy 01/57, Alejandro Lavorante TKO 10 (6+) Hvy 05/62, Willie Pastrano D 10 (UR) Hvy 07/62, Muhammad Ali TKO by 4 (7) Hvy 12/62, First Ring Ranking: #1 Flyweight (April 1999), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Welterweight (December 2021), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 23-7-2 (11 KOs, 2 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Featherweight (2003-05), Jr. Lightweight (2008), Jr. Welterweight (2009-10), Manny Pacquiao was Rings 2006, 2008 and 2009 Fighter of the Year. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. 1-ranked contender at light heavyweight, four in defense of the crown, five more over No. WebTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (50-41) #50 Calzaghe captured every major sanctioning body belt (if not all at the same time), and earned recognition as champion from The Ring over the course of a decade. T o celebrate its centenary, boxing magazine The Ring has ranked the Louis reached No. Milton McCrory TKO 10 (7) 154 KO 08/87, Career Record: 77-10-3, 2 No Contest (47 KO), First Ring Ranking: #7 Middleweight (May 1991), Last Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (September 2007), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 10-6-2, 1 No Contest (5 KO), Ring Magazine Championships: None (See Missing Quality). A consistent factor at welterweight and middleweight from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, Griffith won five world championships against a bevy of tough competition. Photo: The Ring Magazine/ Getty Images. Toneys cruiserweight run culminated with a number one ranking after defeating Vasily Jirov for the IBF belt. 1 contender, along with a win over reigning light heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis. Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time As selected by The A formula based on body weight percentage differences between divisions of ranked fighters, rather than scale weights of the fighters, was applied. For instance, champions havent automatically secured the top spot in every era of Ring rankings. Charles was Rings 1949 and 1950 Fighter of the Year. 1 contender or next highest-rated contender after a division-leading Mayweather. Sakio Bika was unranked prior to a loss to Calzaghe in 2006 but Bika would be ranked continuously for a long stretch between 2007 and 2014. Photo: The Ring archive. 33 Ted (Kid) Lewis. Were here! Benitez deserves remembrance as the fifth king. That included wins at welterweight over the reigning lightweight (Juan Manuel Marquez) and junior welterweight (Ricky Hatton) champions. If the featherweight won, 118 would be divided by 126 with the win worth 8.42 points for the featherweight and the loss meaning a deduction of 2.81 points for the bantamweight. Pep, who went pro in 1940, fought in an era when matches were scheduled far more often than today. Along with his five world title wins, Griffith also posted wins over No. During his career, he fought 241 bouts, a remarkably high number by modern standards. Robinson was recognized as the welterweight champion until the March 1951 issue while also holding the No. Over time, these results will continue to change. Harry Greb (June 6, 1894Oct. Thought was given to leaving the results as they were for this online edition but it wouldnt have followed the methodology employed and wouldnt have given readers the best findings possible as they are now. 10 contender. 1 ranking at flyweight in the era when The Ring did not recognize singular champions. For instance, if a No. One of boxings great, ageless wonders, the Old Mongoose tackled contenders from middleweight to heavyweight for 17 years before finally getting a crack at a world title. A 1995 world amateur champion and 1996 Olympian, the Magic Man rebounded from his first loss to Eric Harding with wins over ranked opponents in four of his next five starts. His 1935 win over Sixto Escobar earned Salica the NBAs bantamweight crown and Salica regained the honors in 1940 with a win over Georgie Pace. As selected by The Ring magazine in the 2003 Ring Yearbook. Often regarded as the greatest fighter of all time, Robinsons results highlight just how dominant he was in his prime. The Brooklyn bantamweight spent more than a decade in or near the top ten after winning bronze at the 1932 Olympics. In a pro career that began in 1968 and lasted until 2001, he won titles in four different divisions: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight, and middleweight. Larry Holmes (69-6, 44 KO) Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to As the title To Be the Best suggests, the feature looked back at 100 men who personified that phrase by facing the best opposition of their respective weight classes and eras. Join our newsletter to get info about latest events and deals! Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! Thanks for signing up! Thanks for signing up! WebBoxing legends Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis have all secured a place in the top 10 heavyweight boxers of all time.The 10 Best Heavyweight Boxers In The World Right Now, Named And Ranked. He also won a gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. (Photo: Ring/Getty Images). Robinson retired 25 years later with a record of 175-19 and 110 knockouts.. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. The first two wins against Maxim came in 1942 when Maxim was unranked and often competing at heavyweight. McCallum won the vacant WBA belt versus Sean Mannion in 1984, rose to number one in Rings rankings in the September 1984 edition, and stayed there almost a year. Scoring for total points and peak points relied on a base 11-point scale (i.e. WebHe is a two-time heavyweight world champion, and also held the unified WBA, WBC, WebIn 2005, Louis was ranked as the best heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization, and was ranked number one on The Ring magazine's list of the "100 greatest punchers of all time". Conversely, some scoring luck in Alis second reign against Jimmy Young and Ken Norton contributed to his placement here. 2023 RING TV LIVE. The inexhaustible Welshman tied the record for defenses of a title at super middleweight with Germanys Sven Ottke. For instance, if a No. Note: With some fighters of the more-distant past, there is often disagreement about their final records. From that win over Genaro Hernandez to his farewell against mixed martial artist Conor McGregor, Mayweather would face 23 men found in the Ring rankings across 33 fights. As an amateur, he made a name for himself by going 86-0 before turning pro in 1940. 1 contender in their division. Fighters were then given a ranking in each scoring category: overall total, peak score (the highest point their points for wins and losses reached), and ranked wins. Replace Marvin Hagler with Benitez and one still has a four-man, nine-fight series which included a near flawless masterpiece of skill in Benitezs lopsided decision over Duran. One of her most memorable fights was when she had the greatest knockout in female boxing history after she sent Vanda Ward to the ground, unconscious, with one punch. A 1963 win over ranked welterweight Ralph Dupas was outside the study scope. The Ring ranked him as Everyone who finished in the top 100 of preliminary research for those three categories was moved into a final pool of what came out to 150 fighters. 50. A 1956 silver medalist at light middleweight for the United States, Torres fought most of his first six years at middleweight, peaking at a number six ranking. Boxing icon Muhammad Ali has brushed aside fierce competition to be voted the best boxer of all time by fans. The 'Greatest' is widely celebrated for his legendary achievements inside the squared Mario Veit was unranked prior to two title challenges of Calzaghe but would crack the top ten briefly in 2007. 8. Scoring for total points and peak points relied on a base 11-point scale (i.e. It has been two months since the initial publication of the 100th anniversary edition of The Ring and with it the first quarter of a study of Rings rankings since their launch in the February 1925 issue. 1 contenders. Corrections to the initial findings of Peter Kane, Benny Lynch, and Jake LaMotta changed the position of each. Pep was Rings 1945 Fighter of the Year. He would never be unknown by anyone again. Reggie Johnson SD 12 (10) 160 10/91, Charles Williams KO 12 (4+) 175 11/94, Montell Griffin L 12 (10) 175 06/95, Evander Holyfield TKO 9 (5+) Hvy 01/04, First Ring Ranking: #10 Light Heavyweight (November 1998), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Cruiserweight (December 2012), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 9-6-1, 1 No Contest (4 KO), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (2004, 05-06). For now, thank you again for taking the time to read and thank you to the editors at The Ring for their support of this project. Bivins just missed being another contender on the ledger for Louis here. And the final part of this series (originally published in the February 2022 issue of The Ring) makes its RingTV.com debut on the 100th birthday of the venerable boxing magazine. Lynch was credited with one too many. The No. His back-to-back middleweight title wars with Carmen Basilio won Rings 1957 and 1958 Fight-of-the-Year award. Missing Quality: Torres was matched tough on his way up, going to a draw with unranked future welterweight champion Benny Paret and suffering his only knockout loss to unranked veteran Florentino Fernandez in 1963. Click here to read the introduction to the rankings feature, Click here to purchase a copy of the Collectors Issue. Missing Quality: Prior to cracking the top ten, Salica took a loss to Midget Wolgast but also picked up solid wins over Antal Kocsis and Pete DeGrasse among others in 1933. The Yonker fight was for an interim WBC belt and set up McCallums shot at Jeff Harding to win the title outright. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Bud [Terence Crawford] is the best fighter in boxing, said Stevenson during an interview with BoxingInsider.com. Alvarez, now 31, seemingly solidified his placement as the best fighter in the world following his recent run at 168 pounds. After IV/05, Marco Antonio Barrera UD 12 (3) 130 01/08, Juan Manuel Marquez SD 12* (2) 130 06/08, Oscar De La Hoya RTD 8 (3+++) 154 02/09, Juan Manuel Marquez MD 12 (C) 135 01/12, Timothy Bradley L 12 (1-) 140 08/12, Juan Manuel Marquez KO by 6 (4-) 140 02/13, Timothy Bradley UD 12 (1) 147 06/14, Floyd Mayweather L 12 (C/C+) 147/154 07/15, Timothy Bradley UD 12 (4) 147 07/16, Lucas Matthysse TKO 7 (9) 147 09/18, First Ring Ranking: #2 Middleweight (March 1942), Last Ring Ranking: #10 Heavyweight (April 1956), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 36-16-1 (19 KOs, 5 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1950-51). Six of the nine fights in the Benitez version took place before Duran-Hagler added the Marvelous one to the mix. Mayweathers junior lightweight run came during the era where The Ring didnt render championships. Louis was 10-1 against Ring-ranked opposition before defeating James Braddock for the crown. Twenty-seven of those wins came against ranked opposition after Moore entered the rankings for the first time. Sometimes, fighters were separated by fractions of points in the total or peak points categories so single wins and losses were impactful in the scoring. Joe Louis; Sam Langford; Jimmy Wilde; Archie Moore; Sandy Saddler; Stanley Ketchel; Jack Dempsey; Bob Fitzsimmons; George Foreman; Earnie Shavers; Sugar Ray Robinson; Ruben Olivares; Wilfredo Gomez; Rocky Marciano; Sonny Liston; Mike Tyson; Bob At the time of his first retirement in 1952, Robinsons career record stood at 132-3-2 with no losses versus welterweights, unbeaten streaks of 40 and then 91 contests, and a record against champions and ranked opposition from lightweight to light heavyweight of 35-3-2. For instance, champions havent automatically secured the top spot in every era of Ring rankings. Before turning pro in 1933 and would spend most of the more-distant,! 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