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All-Time Greatest Boxers (Agree or Disagree):
1.Muhammad Ali 56W-5L-0D
2.Sugar Ray Leonard 36W-3L-1D
3.Floyd “Money” Mayweather 49W-0L-0D
4.Joe Louis 66W-3L-0D
5.Roy Jones Jr 62W-8L-0D
Why they are on my list:
•Muhammad Ali fight with Foreman when everyone else was running scared and the battles with Frazier garnish him the #1 spot. Youngest Heavy Champion ever at-the-time and rebounded to win the title after his suspension. Ali defeated 4x Hall-of-Fame boxers.
•Sugar Ray Leonard suffered only 1x loss during the prime of his carrier and defeated 3x Hall of Famers. Sugar never failed to show up and deliver in his biggest fights (Hearns, Hagler, Duran). The only negative on Sugar is the medical and retirement gaps during the 1980s.
•Floyd Mayweather defeated 6x Hall-of-Famers and defeated 3x other boxers that were undefeated at the time.
•Joe Louis suffered only 1x defeat in his prime and avenged that loss with a 1st round knockout. Louis dominated the Heavy-weight division from 1936-1950 before suffering his 2nd loss (which only came after a 2-year retirement)
•Roy Jones Jr: Ignoring the old Roy Jones Jr of today (that needs to retire); Roy Jones Jr from 1992-2004 Won Titles from Middle Weight thru Heavy Weight (only skipping the Cruiser Weight Division) and was spectacular in the process. He defeated 2 Hall-of-Famers and 9x fighters that were undefeated at the time they fought. Roy had a 10-year span where he never lost a scored round.
Fighters that didn’t make my list:
•Sugar Ray Robinson would probably be #6 on my list. His 19-Losses forced me to knock him down several slots
•Julio Cesar Chavez: Too many of his fights were against weak opposition to pad his record
•Mike Tyson: I loved Mike Tyson and all of his Knockouts but he only defeated 1x Hall-of-Famer. He also lost to some “No-Name” fighters; I know it was late in his career but you can’t lose to people named Kevin McBride and Danny Williams
•Oscar Dela Hoya was in some of the greatest and biggest fights to be made but only won two of them (old Chavez and Gatti). He lost to Hopkins, Mayweather, Trinidad, and Mosley twice (he should have lost to Pernell Whitaker).
1.Muhammad Ali 56W-5L-0D
2.Sugar Ray Leonard 36W-3L-1D
3.Floyd “Money” Mayweather 49W-0L-0D
4.Joe Louis 66W-3L-0D
5.Roy Jones Jr 62W-8L-0D
Why they are on my list:
•Muhammad Ali fight with Foreman when everyone else was running scared and the battles with Frazier garnish him the #1 spot. Youngest Heavy Champion ever at-the-time and rebounded to win the title after his suspension. Ali defeated 4x Hall-of-Fame boxers.
•Sugar Ray Leonard suffered only 1x loss during the prime of his carrier and defeated 3x Hall of Famers. Sugar never failed to show up and deliver in his biggest fights (Hearns, Hagler, Duran). The only negative on Sugar is the medical and retirement gaps during the 1980s.
•Floyd Mayweather defeated 6x Hall-of-Famers and defeated 3x other boxers that were undefeated at the time.
•Joe Louis suffered only 1x defeat in his prime and avenged that loss with a 1st round knockout. Louis dominated the Heavy-weight division from 1936-1950 before suffering his 2nd loss (which only came after a 2-year retirement)
•Roy Jones Jr: Ignoring the old Roy Jones Jr of today (that needs to retire); Roy Jones Jr from 1992-2004 Won Titles from Middle Weight thru Heavy Weight (only skipping the Cruiser Weight Division) and was spectacular in the process. He defeated 2 Hall-of-Famers and 9x fighters that were undefeated at the time they fought. Roy had a 10-year span where he never lost a scored round.
Fighters that didn’t make my list:
•Sugar Ray Robinson would probably be #6 on my list. His 19-Losses forced me to knock him down several slots
•Julio Cesar Chavez: Too many of his fights were against weak opposition to pad his record
•Mike Tyson: I loved Mike Tyson and all of his Knockouts but he only defeated 1x Hall-of-Famer. He also lost to some “No-Name” fighters; I know it was late in his career but you can’t lose to people named Kevin McBride and Danny Williams
•Oscar Dela Hoya was in some of the greatest and biggest fights to be made but only won two of them (old Chavez and Gatti). He lost to Hopkins, Mayweather, Trinidad, and Mosley twice (he should have lost to Pernell Whitaker).
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