The Top 25 Light Heavyweights of All-Time – Top Ten

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By Cliff Rold - The Eight, Pt. 5

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]

[edgarg]

Georges Carpentier should be on the list somewhere.

Also Young Corbett 3rd was, as far as I can recall, only a small welterweight, Zab Judah size; Billy Conn was big enough to fight Joe Louis.

Harold Johnson, Maxie Rosenbloom,and Gene Tunney should be, respectively, higher on the list.

Still it's a tough job to sift through so many top notch fighters.

[JAB5239]

Good list Cliff. Nice to see you did your research before just giving an opinion.

[crold1]

Georges Carpentier should be on the list somewhere.

Also Young Corbett 3rd was, as far as I can recall, only a small welterweight, Zab Judah size; Billy Conn was big enough to fight Joe Louis.

Harold Johnson, Maxie Rosenbloom,and Gene Tunney should be, respectively, higher on the list.

Still it's a tough job to sift through so many top notch fighters.

Yeah, but Conn was still only a 20-year old Middle when he fought Corbett. He would grow a bit before Louis.

[nachorjj]

Roy Jones is the 1

[TheGreatA]

Corbett III was a pretty good middleweight. He beat Mickey Walker, Gus Lesnevich and Fred Apostoli at 160.

As you can see he wasn't exactly bloated at the weight:

[BennyST]

Good stuff mate.

But, Roy Jones is the greatest LHW ever! He beat Glen Kelly with a behind the back punch!

[norway]

Agree with you all !! There is only one that should be on top and maybee take up the second and third place too. ROY JONES JR. Any so called expert saying anything else does not know what he is talking about and is hung up by the old ****** talks of the old days!!!!

[GOD-FR33]

Good posting overall.

W8 a minute here. What about my boy EVANDER HOLYFIELD????? Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't he capture all three belts @ L.W., C.W., and H.W.???? I know he made a stop @ L.W. to say the least. I don't know anyone on this list that beats him. And as far as ROY goes, he's clearly the most PHYSICALLY GIFTED LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT EVER, but he wasn't in the top 10 when it came down to it. He would have gotten knocked out so many times by most of the guys on this list....SORRY R.J.J. FANS. LoL.

[Dave Rado]

Agree with you all !! There is only one that should be on top and maybee take up the second and third place too. ROY JONES JR. Any so called expert saying anything else does not know what he is talking about and is hung up by the old ****** talks of the old days!!!!

Exactly how many Hall of Fame Light Heavyweights did he beat again?