The Top 25 Featherweights of All-Time – Top Ten

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by Cliff Rold - For any new boxing fan, the time is not long before a fellow fan points out a magic number which grows more mythologized with time: eight. As in boxing’s original eight weight classes. The number represents in the mind of many a time when the sport was compressed into fields which couldn’t help but be talented, couldn’t help but draw crowds, because there were so few places on the scale to go. They were divisions marked by single champions ever challenged by a depth of contenders today’s seventeen weight classes rarely know. [details]

[totalstranga]

Hamed 5 spots above JMM. interesting

[dans]

CT representing here. Wille Pep baby. Maybe the best defensive fighter of all time.

[dans]

Hamed 5 spots above JMM. interesting

I believe this is done mathematically.

Am I correct Crold?

[crold1]

I believe this is done mathematically.

Am I correct Crold?

For the Jr. Divisions, it was on points. For these, I use the points to sort and then I start playing with it (explained at the bottom). On just points, Hamed is much higher (around 13 I think) but then you start to think about eras which were much different from each other.

[crold1]

Hamed 5 spots above JMM. interesting

He accomplished more AT Featherweight. Part of that was by ducking Marquez but he beat a lot of quality guys at 26.

[dans]

For the Jr. Divisions, it was on points. For these, I use the points to sort and then I start playing with it (explained at the bottom). On just points, Hamed is much higher (around 13 I think) but then you start to think about eras which were much different from each other.

Interesting. Where was JMM points wise. 25 does seems a little low for him.

[crold1]

Interesting. Where was JMM points wise. 25 does seems a little low for him.

Around 30. His Featherweight resume was okay but compared to others across the divisions history it was just ok. His status as a modern guy can distort what some amazing fighters got done here. I squeezed him in because I thought the most prominent actual Feather of the Fab Four belonged and he and Barrera scored about even.

[dans]

Around 30. His Featherweight resume was okay but compared to others across the divisions history it was just ok. His status as a modern guy can distort what some amazing fighters got done here. I squeezed him in because I thought the most prominent actual Feather of the Fab Four belonged and he and Barrera scored about even.

Fair enough. Important thing is that the Whisp is #1, that can never be disputed.

[crold1]

Yeah, I struggled more with Attell at 2 than Pep at 1. Lightweight will be tougher. Gans, Duran, Williams, Pea, and Duran all have STRONG cases for 1.