GOATs by Division by Country, State, Region -- Boxing "Starting Line-ups"

[USMCer]

What are your All-Time "Starting Line-ups" (greatest Boxer in each weight class) for your State or Country... or for the historically great Boxing Countries or Regions (the U.S. East Coast, Mexico, The UK, Puerto Rico), etc?


Old Eight Divisions

MEXICO
HW - Andy Ruiz Jr (USA)^ or N/A
LHW - Alvaro Yaqui Lopez
MW - Saul Canelo Alvarez
WW - Oscar De La Hoya (USA)^ or Antonio Margarito
LW - Julio Cesar Chavez (known more for sLW and sFW)
FW - Juan Manuel Marquez
BW - Rafael Marquez (Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera were sBW)
FLW - Miguel Canto

^representing Boxers with country's heritage

All Divisions

HW -
CRW -
LHW -
sMW -
MW -
sWW -
WW -
sLW -
LW -
sFW -
FW -
sBW -
BW -
sFLW -
FLW -
lFLW -
STW -

BoxRec for reference (here)

[The D3vil]

For the US, I'd say

HW - Ali
CW - Holyfield
LHW - Archie Moore
SMW - Roy Jones, Jr.
MW - Marvin Hagler
SWW - Tommy Hearns
WW - Sugar Ray Robinson
SLW - Aaron Pryor
LW - Benny Leonard
SFW - Floyd Mayweather
FW - Henry Armstrong
SBW - Tracy Harris Patterson????
BW - Johnny Tapia??
SuperFly - Johnny Tapia
Fly - Mark Johnson
LightFly - Michael Carbajal.

I aint gonna lie, I struggled with those lower weights, man.

Under 126, I was strainin' like a mug

[USMCer]

California

HW - Andy Ruiz Jr or Sam McVea (b.Texas, r.CA.age?)
CRW - Jerry Quarry* or Eddie Machen*
LHW - Andre Ward (mainly at sMW)
sMW - Andre Ward
MW - Fred Apostoli
sWW - Oscar De La Hoya (mainly at WW & LW) or Shane Mosely (mainly at WW & LW), or Fernando Vargas
WW - Young Corbertt III (b.Italy, r.CA.age4) or, Shane Mosely, or Oscar De La Hoya
sLW - Timothy Bradley
LW - Shane Mosely or Oscar De La Hoya
sFW - Bobby Chacon or Tony Lopez
FW - Mikey Garcia (also sFW, LW)
sBW - Abner Mares (also BW, FW) (b.Mexico, r.CA.age7)
BW - Manuel Ortiz, or Richie Sandoval
sFLW - Jose Navarro
FLW - Fidel LaBarba (b.NY, r.CA.age5)
lFLW - Joey Olivo or Giovani Segura (b.Mexico, r.CA.???)


*fought at less than 199lbs when HW was >190lbs

[USMCer]

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[Lomasexual]

HW – Joe Bugner (honourable mention to Kali Meehan)
CRW – Danny Green
LHW – Paul Briggs (honourable mention to Jeff Harding and Tony Mundine)
sMW – Anthony Mundine (honourable mention to Sakio Bika)
MW – Les Darcy (honourable mention to Danny Geale and Sam Soliman)
sWW - Rocky Mattioli
WW – Jeff Horn
sLW – Kostya Tszyu
LW – Barry Michael (honourable mention to Michael Katsidis)
sFW – Lester Ellis
FW – Johnny Famechon
sBW – Jeff Fenech
BW – Lionel Rose
sFLW – Vic Darchinyan
FLW – Hussy Hussein
lFLW - ???
STW - ???