Top 25 Boxers of the Last 50 Years

**Dan...** · 02-04-2009, 06:32 PM

To actually put together a reasonably well thought out list would be such a massive undertaking. There are just so many great fighters to consider.

**El Dominicano** · 02-04-2009, 06:39 PM

Originally posted by andrewcuff

There's a loads of threads polling who the best of all time, but many of these boxers fought before fights were regularly recorded. I'm not saying they weren't good, but I don't want to pass judgement on fighters that I've never watched. So I was wondering what people thought the Top 25 ATG list would be if 1960 was the starting date.

So this would be from 1959 and up. Even though your asking for 25 boxers...it isn't an easy list to make.

Ofcourse I'd throw in the obvious.

Duran
Hagler
Hearns
SRL
Aaron Pryor
Whitaker
Mayweather
B-Hop
Pacman
JCC
Alexis Arguello
RJJ

Who'd I miss?

I hear this guy is nice Alexis Arguello but I've yet to see any of his fights but since some say he is the best 130 pounder I'll throw him in.

**THE REED** · 02-04-2009, 06:40 PM

Originally posted by El Dominicano

So this would be from 1959 and up. Even though your asking for 25 boxers...it isn't an easy list to make.

Ofcourse I'd throw in the obvious.

Duran
Hagler
Hearns
SRL
Aaron Pryor
Whitaker
Mayweather
B-Hop
Pacman

Who'd I miss?

Who do you think

**El Dominicano** · 02-04-2009, 06:44 PM

Originally posted by reedickyaluss

Who do you think

Oh **** I miss Roy Yones

**wmute** · 02-04-2009, 06:47 PM

Originally posted by El Dominicano

So this would be from 1959 and up. Even though your asking for 25 boxers...it isn't an easy list to make.

Ofcourse I'd throw in the obvious.

Duran
Hagler
Hearns
SRL
Aaron Pryor
Whitaker
Mayweather
B-Hop
Pacman
JCC
Alexis Arguello
RJJ

Who'd I miss?

I hear this guy is nice Alexis Arguello but I've yet to see any of his fights but since some say he is the best 130 pounder I'll throw him in.

This looks like the last 30 years...

I would begin by adding Muhammad Ali, and if you have Hopkins, might as well have Toney.

**wmute** · 02-04-2009, 06:48 PM

Maybe Salvador Sanchez? Not sure, not sure about Hearns belonging in there either.

Later tonight I will start cranking my brain about 60s and 70s fighters.

**wmute** · 02-04-2009, 06:54 PM

A few candidates to make it in the list (mostly from outside US)

Eder Jofre
Carlos Monzon
Jose Napoles
Emile Griffith
Michael Spinks
Duilio Loi
Lennox Lewis

EDIT: it was too good of a question to wait, so this is a quick appendix

**andrewcuff** · 02-04-2009, 06:54 PM

Yeah I was wondering who would mention Muhammad Ali!

I'm not sure about order, but I was thinking:

Ali,
Foreman,
Monzon,
Leonard,
Hagler,
Duran,
Hearns,
Benitez,
Pryor,
Arguello,
Holmes,
Khaosai Galaxy,
Roy Jones Jr,
Whitaker,
Chavez,
Hopkins,
Holyfield,
Lewis,
Meldrick Taylor (maybe)

so far

**Joeyzagz** · 02-04-2009, 07:04 PM

I was trying to go by greatness at first but drew a blank after 3 so this list is in no particular order. And other than Ali, Liston and Frazier its really from 1979-2009

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Roberto Duran
3. Sugar Ray leonard
4. Marvin Hagler
5. Mike Tyson
6. Floyd mayweather
7. Joe Calzaghe
8. Roy Jones Jr
9. Felix Trinidad
10. Bernard Hopkins
11. Pernell Whitaker
12. Sonny Liston
13. George Foreman
14. Joe Frazier
15. Lennox Lewis
16. Juan Manuel Marquez
17. Manny Paquiao
18. Larry Holmes
19. Evander Holyfield
20. Ricardo Lopez
21. Naseem Hamed
22. Marco Antonio Barerra
23. Thomas Hearns
24. Oscar De Lahoya(based on ppv & business savy)
25. James Toney

Top 25 Boxers of the Last 50 Years