Greatest Fighters by Decade.

[Sugarj]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

One of the earliest boxing books I've ever read was called Boxiana by Pierce Egan, published in the 1800s. It was full of tales and fight reports about the likes of the Cribbs and Mendozas.

Now thats boxing history!

As for your list, I'd agree with many there. There is a heavyweight bias, but I'm not going to pretend that I wouldn't fall into a very similar list.

[SBleeder]

have boxing knowledge,i am not going to talk about fighters from the old days that is based on heresay,fighters of the fifties and down are comical imagine fighters fronm the 1800s

Guys who could go 20+ rounds with bare knuckles... yeah, real comical.

Troll.

[TheTartanLegend]

What's your criteria? You do have a lot of heavyweights...

For instance, Dempsey was certainly a bigger celebrity than a guy like Harry Greb, but I'd rank Greb higher than Dempsey in terms of ability and resume. I'd put Henry Armstrong in the 1930s over Joe Louis, again, if we're talking about ability and not celebrity. Ditto for Pernell Whitaker as figher of the 80s over Leonard.

Sure, Greb and Armstrong were outstanding fighters with accomplished records but were they pioneers like Dempsey and Louis? Their names were synonymous with boxing itself.

[Obama]

1920s - Benny Leonard
1910s - Sam Langford
1900s - Joe Gans
1890s - George Dixon (runner up bob fitzsimmons)

[shelly12345]

I'd like to watch.

[BennyST]

I'd put Leonard 70s and Tyson 80s

Leonard didn't do **** in the seventies. He was young and his one big win in 79 was against Benitez. He was an eighties man most definitely. His star was born in the 80's.

[TheTartanLegend]

both interesting points.

[SCtrojansbaby]

The only decade that is undisputed is the 90s with Roy Jones Jr

[SCtrojansbaby]

70s is a tie with Ali and Duran
80s is Leonard
90s is Roy Jones
00s is a tie between Hopkins and Pacman

[sonnyboyx2]

Manny Pacquiao would be the obvious choice for 2000s with Muhammad Ali for the 1970s