The greatest fighters in the original eight weight classes?

[billeau2]

Heavyweight: Jack Dempsey

Light Heavyweight: Georges Carpentier

Middleweight: Johnny Wilson

Welterweight: Mickey Walker

Lightweight: Benny Leonard

Featherweight: Johnny Kilbane

Bantamweight: Joe Lynch

Flyweight: Jimmy Wilde

"What!!!? What kind of a list is that!!? Whatsdamatta with ya!?"

"Why don't you make your own list then wise guy!"

"What!? great list!! Incredible!!"

Seriously I do not know how to manage to decide such a list... I envy you guys!

[billeau2]

Why deliberately troll like that?

I simply don"t understand what people get out of it.

Actually Pep is making a great point. The situation with these lists always has to compare a segment of previous lists... How do we reason which segment is more legit? Sometimes there is an easy way. If one makes such a list as your thread asks, we can take Ray Robinson and perhaps (perhaps?) Armstrong, and see if they can be put somewhere immediately. It gets harder as we move through time... Joe Louis? Ali? Dempsey? All three guys were larger than life, great fighters and set a precedent for fighting theory, during their tenure as champs... Which time segment was "Greater?"

[Willie Pep 229]

"What!!!? What kind of a list is that!!? Whatsdamatta with ya!?"

"Why don't you make your own list then wise guy!"

"What!? great list!! Incredible!!"

Seriously I do not know how to manage to decide such a list... I envy you guys!

Actually a surprisingly good list. Not the GOATS necessarily, but for being Ring M agazine's first rankings a great collection of champions appear. The weakness name is Wlson at MW.

Everyone else, at that frozen moment in time, was a pretty damn good fighter, with maybe Wilde being in contention for GOAT.

1922 must have been a great year for boxing fans.

[DeeMoney]

Heavyweight: Ali

Light Heavyweight: Langford

Middleweight: Monzon

Welterweight: Robinson

Lightweight: Duran

Featherweight: Pep

Bantamweight: Jofre

Flyweight: Wilde

[Bronson66]

Actually a surprisingly good list. Not the GOATS necessarily, but for being Ring M agazine's first rankings a great collection of champions appear. The weakness name is Wlson at MW.

Everyone else, at that frozen moment in time, was a pretty damn good fighter, with maybe Wilde being in contention for GOAT.

1922 must have been a great year for boxing fans.

Carpentier doesn't belong in the top 10 of any list of light heavies.

[Mr Mitts]

HW Ali
LHW Charles/Langford/Tunney
MW Langford/Robinson
WW Robinson/Leonard
LW Duran
FeW Pep/Pacquiao
BW Jofre/Panama Al Brown
FlW Wilde/Poncho Villa/Pone Kingpetch