Why is Ray Leonard not considered the GOAT?

[LeG00N]

Harry Greb is the GOAT

[raskat]

Ray waited til Hagler was old and beatable. But hey, Ray is in my top5 ATG. not everybody can be the "Greatest".

[BattlingNelson]

I honestly feel and have always felt that Floyd beats Ray Leonard pretty decisively.

That's it. I'm changing my sig.

[Boxingtech718v2]

Ray waited til Hagler was old and beatable. But hey, Ray is in my top5 ATG. not everybody can be the "Greatest".

WTF isn't Ray older?

[hugh grant]

I always think of SRL as similar to RJJ. Incredible attributes, but when they lost the attributes they had nothing to fall back on.

SRL seemed to suddently go from great to average overnight. RJJ is similar but he did come back down from heavyweight and that seemed to be his downfall.

[zcm]

Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
—Sugar Ray Leonard

[IronDanHamza]

Continue on with so on. That's about where the list ends of fighters ahead of Ray. Henry Armstrong also but Ray is in the top 10 of all time.

No, it's not.

[IronDanHamza]

Joe Gans

Ruberto Duran

Jack Johnson

Harry Greb

Jack Dempsey

Maybe Rocky Marciano

And maybe Jimmy Wilde

No way, no way, an no way.

[Johnwoo8686]

I always think of SRL as similar to RJJ. Incredible attributes, but when they lost the attributes they had nothing to fall back on.

SRL seemed to suddently go from great to average overnight. RJJ is similar but he did come back down from heavyweight and that seemed to be his downfall.

Thats what I see happening to Pacquiao if he keeps fighting. And is it me or is every fight Pacquiao takes where his opponent does his slightest to win turning into a tough fight? He looked ****** up after Clottey, Margarito, and Marquez. Those fights are going to take a toll sooner or later. Pacquiao is the Muhammed Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roy Jones of this generation. A tremendous athlete with so so boxing skill.

Back to the original topic: Leonard is nowhere near the number 1 spot. He might be top 20 at best.

[IronDanHamza]

Ray Leonard is a great fighter, one of the greatest fighters of the last 30 years. Despite not being the greatest fighter of his era.

But the reason he isn't he isn't the greatest of all time is because his resume simply doesn't allow it.

He probably has the strongest 4 signature wins of all time, arguably. But, he has a lack of depth beyond that. As opposed to other past greats.

I'd have him around the Top 20 mark.