Of note, the parameters of this study exclude Alis final loss to a rated Trevor Berbick. A thrilling boxer-puncher with exceptional physical strength and stamina, Griffith was No. 3. Missing Quality: On the way to Nunn, Toney defeated a Merqui Sosa who would later be ranked at super middleweight and light heavyweight. Larry Holmes (69-6, 44 KO) Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to Jack Johnson. The points scale shifted for those years. Reggie Johnson SD 12 (10) 160 10/91, Charles Williams KO 12 (4+) 175 11/94, Montell Griffin L 12 (10) 175 06/95, Evander Holyfield TKO 9 (5+) Hvy 01/04, First Ring Ranking: #10 Light Heavyweight (November 1998), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Cruiserweight (December 2012), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 9-6-1, 1 No Contest (4 KO), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (2004, 05-06). Ali was Rings 1963 (as Cassius Clay), 1966 (retroactively), 1972 (with Carlos Monzon), 1974, 1975 and 1978 Fighter of the Year.He was in Rings The 10 best heavyweights in the world right now Rummy's Corner The study tried to respect the varying standards The Ring has used to rank fighters over the last century. WebThe International Boxing Research Organization rates Foreman as the eighth greatest heavyweight of all time. One of boxings great, ageless wonders, the Old Mongoose tackled contenders from middleweight to heavyweight for 17 years before finally getting a crack at a world title. This has been a pleasure to put together. George Costner was not ranked in a Ring top 10 when Robinson first beat him, neither was Artie Levine or Carl Bobo Olson the first two times the future middleweight champ lost to Robinson, but all three would become fixtures of the ratings. 92 and 93 on this very special list of greats. Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", Louis' In other words, Angott was The Rings No. The Brooklyn bantamweight spent more than a decade in or near the top ten after winning bronze at the 1932 Olympics. Pep, who went pro in 1940, fought in an era when matches were scheduled far more often than today. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Fights in italics denote results using rankings taken from KO Magazine. A move to middleweight started with a loss to Sumbu Kalambay, McCallums first, but McCallum rebounded to win the vacant WBA belt against Herol Graham. An illustration of Willie Pep adorns the July 1949 issue of The Ring. Basilio also had a win that didnt count toward him versus then-10th ranked welterweight Don Jordan in 1961. He also hosts TV and radio sports talk shows. Missing Quality: Peps dominance at featherweight included recognizable names who werent far removed from contention when Pep defeated them. 31 Ezzard Charles. 2023 RING TV LIVE. The Cincinnati Cobra competed with the elite from middleweight to heavyweight for the better part of a decade without a title shot. Charles had won the NBAs recognition as champion in June 1949 following his first win over Walcott. Missing Quality: Charles is lauded by many, including biographer William Dettloff while writing for The Ring, as the greatest light heavyweight of all time. Bivins was unrated on the eve of his 1951 fight with Louis but would continue to fall in and out of the top 10 into 1953. Basilios defeats in the second Fullmer fight, and versus Pender, came after Basilios final Ring ranking and didnt work against him here. It references the cover story to the February 2022 issue of The Ring, which celebrated the magazines 100 years of publication. A native of Panama, Duran is considered to be the best lightweight fighter in modern boxing history. He came out ahead 2-1 in a fateful rivalry with Paret, narrowly edged Luis Rodriguez 3-1 over four fights and pounded past Denny Moyer in two of their three contests. Missing Quality: Between wins over Diego Corrales and Jesus Chavez in a stellar 2001 campaign, Mayweather defeated Carlos Hernandez, who was unranked by The Ring at the time. Along with his five world title wins, Griffith also posted wins over No. Top 10 Lightweights of All Time!Check out the best bookmakers for betting on Boxing! As noted in the introduction piece in the anniversary issue, a study of this size will inevitably miss something along the way, but every effort was made to ensure complete and accurate results for this top 100. The solution was to include all results from 1924 in evaluating 1925 and then applying six-month increments with spare exception near mid-year dates until the debut of monthly rankings; i.e. "Willie Pep" was the stage name ofGuglielmo Papaleo, an American boxer and two-time world featherweight champion. Hall of famers James Toney (right) and Mike McCallum are Nos. T o celebrate its centenary, boxing magazine The Ring has ranked the Davis was not ranked in the August issue and the result of the fight was reported in the September issue, so it was not recorded as a ranked win. Genius is a word easily abused, but not when it comes to Peps best years at featherweight. Romero was ranked intermittently at light heavyweight from 1937-38 and for most of 1943. Gus Lesnevich, Ring Magazines 1947 Fighter of the Year. Draw 6 (10) 122 02/02, Marco Antonio Barrera TKO 11* (C) 126 03/04, Juan Manuel Marquez D 12 (1) 126 09/04, Erik Morales L12 (2+) 130 Vol. Louis was 10-1 against Ring-ranked opposition before defeating James Braddock for the crown. Was anything from 30 to 40 out of the question? A 1938 win over Lou Brouillard missed credit by a single issue. Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather, Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao Bivins just missed being another contender on the ledger for Louis here. Combining sanctioning body and lineal and/or Ring championships, Pacquiao is the only fighter with title claims in eight weight classes. Twelve of those 23 wins came against men The Ring recognized in their division as champion, No. Scoring results key: Most of the fighters listed in the Scoring Results section were in The Rings ratings at the time the examined ranked fighters of this feature faced them. From a 12-year-old amateur to the greatest heavyweight of all time and an icon for change, Muhammad Ali conquered many worlds. WebHeavyweight Ring career: 1947-56 Record: 49-0 (43 KOs) Career notes: Only Duran retired with a record of 103-16 with 70 knockouts. James Toney downs 1996 Olympic champ Vassily Jirov to win the IBF cruiserweight title in 2003, the year he earned his second Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year award. Tarver was inconsistent from there, but managed impressive performances to recapture the Ring crown after losing it to Glen Johnson and won another IBF belt later against Clinton Woods. Missing Quality: Canzoneri came close to being the first fighter with titles in four weight classes. Pacquiao entered the rankings winning his first major title at age 19 with a come-from-behind knockout of Chatchai Sasakul. His 1935 win over Sixto Escobar earned Salica the NBAs bantamweight crown and Salica regained the honors in 1940 with a win over Georgie Pace. Sakio Bika was unranked prior to a loss to Calzaghe in 2006 but Bika would be ranked continuously for a long stretch between 2007 and 2014. Armstrong retired in 1946 with a record of 151-21-9 with 101 knockouts. 2 fights and surely would have filled a vacancy had The Ring resumed recognizing champions again before either fight. The biggest question for Louis might be how many more title defenses he would have had without service in World War II. There is no specific heavyweight ceiling so the formula divides the weight limit of the smaller fighters division against the actual weight of the heavyweight. A force from bantamweight to lightweight with big wins against welterweights to go with it, Canzoneri spent more than a decade in the rankings. Scoring for total points and peak points relied on a base 11-point scale (i.e. The inexhaustible Welshman tied the record for defenses of a title at super middleweight with Germanys Sven Ottke. He turned pro that same year, winning his first 19 matches and capturing the world heavyweight title in 1964. Over the next several days, RingTV.com will present Rolds list in its entirety, beginning with Nos. Those were treated as that months rankings and, if needed, were reordered as champion and top 10 to maintain consistency. Mayweathers most impressive run may have come in his first weight class with five wins over ranked opposition in title fights at junior lightweight. After the loss to Frazier, Ali would fight 14 times, going 8-1 in that run against ranked opposition (seven heavyweights and light heavyweight champion Bob Foster) before upsetting George Foreman to regain the title. He also avenged pre-war losses to Jimmy Bivins and Lloyd Marshall multiple times apiece while winning all three battles with Archie Moore. 1 contenders. The 18-year-old Canzoneris 1927 draw with Bud Taylor was for the vacant NBA bantamweight title, though The Ring recognized no one as champion between Charley Rosenberg earlier in the year and Panama Al Brown in 1931. Basilio defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in a battle of champions to move up and capture the middleweight crown but fell short in two attempts at Gene Fullmer to regain the NBA title and closed his career with a loss to Rings middleweight champion Paul Pender. A 1960 Olympic gold medalist at light heavyweight and the only fighter to capture the Ring (and lineal) heavyweight title three times, Ali entered the ratings less than two years into his career and defeated four top-10 contenders to earn his shot at Sonny Liston. The result for readers is still a list of 100 fighters, featuring the same names (minus two), in a slightly different order than found in the print issue of the magazine. Fighters were then given a ranking in each scoring category: overall total, peak score (the highest point their points for wins and losses reached), and ranked wins. In an era when segregation was still legal, Louis' athleticism made him one of the few African-American celebrities of his time. A loss to the champion was a one-point deduction sliding to 11 for a loss to the No. Harry Greb (June 6, 1894Oct. 1 contender spot at middleweight in the October-December 1942 issues before assuming the No. Given the method used to process the findings of the study, ranking fighters in three categories based on their official in-ring results, every change can have a butterfly effect. The entirely subjective nature of any list comparing fighters across different weight categories and different eras is bound to be fodder for debate. Canzoneris record is loaded with multi-fight rivalries, including a four-way round robin with Jimmy McLarnin, Barney Ross and Billy Petrolle. Robinson exited the ratings during his period of service during World War II, returned to the ratings ranked second in the January 1945 issue and then resumed as leading contender until defeating Tommy Bell for the vacant crown. A win over the champion of ones weight class, in a title or non-title fight, was worth 11 points, a No. Losses worked in reverse. When Azumah Nelson defeated Jeff Fenech in their 1992 rematch, they were The Rings top two contenders in the class. He was a Ring-rated fighter from bantamweight to lightweight. He was 3-0 against ranked junior middleweights, including handing Canelo Alvarez his first and to date only loss. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Boxing icon Muhammad Ali has brushed aside fierce competition to be voted the best boxer of all time by fans. The 'Greatest' is widely celebrated for his legendary achievements inside the squared Josh Taylor is the undisputed light welterweight champion, currently the only undisputed champion. BornCassius Marcellus Clay Jr.,Muhammad Ali began boxing at the age of 12 and won a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics. Canzoneri never competed for the junior lightweight crown but defeated reigning champion Benny Bass in a non-title fight and defeated Kid Chocolate in defense of the lightweight crown. Michigans Lights Out won titles in three weight classes and lost a heavyweight belt to a PED test while vacillating between moments of brilliance and inconsistency often attributed to conditioning. Across his years in the Ring rankings, Ali would face all six of the other men The Ring recognized as heavyweight champion during those years, defeating five, along with five No. (Photo: Ring/Getty Images). Kane and LaMotta were each missing a result. History could have played differently for both with just a few rounds of difference. Stuhley was unranked before either contest but had been ranked at middleweight earlier in 1936 and occasionally since 1932. 1 in title and non-title affairs. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. For the 1925 rankings, and the period when Ring didnt recognize single champions from 1989 to 2001, only 10 fighters per weight class were ranked. results from January-June 1925 used the 1925 annual and the rest of the year used 1926s. Armstrong defeated Al Bummy Davis on June 15, 1944. Hernandez would go on to be ranked, and win a belt, in the 130-pound class in the years after that fight. In a 111-fight career, nearly half of Griffiths opponents could be found ranked in the pages of Ring Magazine. For instance, champions havent automatically secured the top spot in every era of Ring rankings. Griffith was Rings 1964 Fighter of the Year. McCallum was ranked number one at middleweight prior to the Toney rematch and again at light heavyweight prior to losing the WBC title to Fabrice Tiozzo. Joe Calzaghe won Ring Magazine championships at super middleweight and light heavyweight. However, for a lengthy period of time the February, and later March, issue of the magazine would only feature the annual ratings for the year. Michael Spinks (737.4 points; 31-1-0) Considered to be one of the best light heavyweights of all time, Michael Spinks (known as Jinx) held world championships in both the light heavyweight class (he was the undisputed champ from 1983 to 1985) and the lineal heavyweight class (from 1985 to 1988). At number one, Muhammad Ali is the greatest boxer of all time, and Missing Quality: Richie Woodhall fell out of the top ten just a few months before a loss to Calzaghe in 2000 but had been a titlist in the class just two fights prior. After a standout amateur career, he turned pro in 1934. WebHe is a two-time heavyweight world champion, and also held the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring heavyweight titles in 1989. Often regarded as the greatest fighter of all time, Robinsons results highlight just how dominant he was in his prime. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Group three was derived from fighters who scored in the top 75 of any of the three scoring categories or whose final scoring average was higher than what would otherwise be the bottom ten of the top 100 (70-100). There are, after all, several active fighters on the list. The exception was fighters moving up to face heavyweights. Andrew Eisele is a boxing writer who has covered the sport for Time, Inc. Torres entered ranked sixth at light heavyweight when he unseated Willie Pastrano. Atilio Sabatino TKO 5 (5) 160 06/40], Eddie Booker TKO by 8 (UR) 160 03/44, Lloyd Marshall TKO 10 (2) 175 08/45], Jimmy Bivins KO by 6 (2+) Hvy 10/45, Holman Williams L 10 (1-) 160 12/45, Holman Williams TKO 11 (1-) 160 01/46, Ezzard Charles KO by 8 (1) 175 03/48, Oakland Billy Smith UD 10 (2) 175 06/48, Leonard Morrow KO by 1 (UR) 175 07/48, Charley Williams KO 7 (7) 175 02/49, Harold Johnson UD 10 (10) 175 06/49, Clinton Bacon DQ by 6 (UR) 175 07/49, Clarence Henry UD 10 (5+) Hvy 08/52, Harold Johnson TKO 14 (1) 175 09/54, Rocky Marciano KO by 9 (C) Hvy 11/55, Yolande Pompey TKO 10 (1) 175 07/56, Floyd Patterson KO by 5* (2) Hvy 01/57, Alejandro Lavorante TKO 10 (6+) Hvy 05/62, Willie Pastrano D 10 (UR) Hvy 07/62, Muhammad Ali TKO by 4 (7) Hvy 12/62, First Ring Ranking: #1 Flyweight (April 1999), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Welterweight (December 2021), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 23-7-2 (11 KOs, 2 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Featherweight (2003-05), Jr. Lightweight (2008), Jr. Welterweight (2009-10), Manny Pacquiao was Rings 2006, 2008 and 2009 Fighter of the Year. A minus symbol - next to an opponents ranking denotes the opponent was ranked below the weight class of the fighter being examined in that issue. Alis last win would come in avenging a stunning upset loss to Leon Spinks, retiring as champion before an ill-fated comeback. Writing in the July 1931 issue of The Ring, editor Nat Fleischers position came down to the scales, specifically that Berg could not lose his junior-welter crown when compelled to enter the ring at the lightweight limit., Ignacio Fernandez W 10 (2-) 126 07/29, Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (8+) 140 11/29], Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (4+) 140 04/30, Harry Dublinsky SD 10 (7) 135 07/32], Harry Dublinsky L 10 (3+) 147 10/34, Harry Dublinsky W 10 (1+) 147 11/34, Jimmy McLarnin UD 10 (1+) 147 06/36, First Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (March 1962), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Heavyweight (November 1980), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 32-4 (20 KOs, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1964-70, 74-78, 78). He turned pro in 1911, still a teen. How tough? Robinson turned professional in October 1940 and rose to No. The 1926 and subsequent annual rankings prior to the introduction of monthly rankings included more than 10 fighters so the first 11 were all factored in. That included his most legendary win, the first-round knockout of Max Schmeling in their rematch. His success continued well after he moved up the scale. Toneys cruiserweight run culminated with a number one ranking after defeating Vasily Jirov for the IBF belt. 1 contender was worth 10, etc. Mayweathers junior lightweight run came during the era where The Ring didnt render championships. To be the best, you have to beat the best. Everyone who finished in the top 100 of preliminary research for those three categories was moved into a final pool of what came out to 150 fighters. Who is the greatest boxing athlete of all time?Muhammad Ali Throughout his entire career, he only lost one fight by knockout. Julio Cesar Chavez professional record of 107-6-2 with 88 knockouts.Floyd Mayweather 43-0 professional record, with 26 knockouts.Sugar Ray Robinson 175-19-6 record, with 109 knockouts.Mike Tyson 44 of his 50 victories were by knockout. The result in the Tiberi fight resulted in calls for a Congressional investigation and could have affected Toneys placement as a loss to an unranked opponent. Missing Quality: The welterweight top 10 of the early 1940s was tough to crack. Louis is one of a group of seven fighters identified with between 30 and 39 wins against ranked opponents in the study. Their rankings in each category were then averaged into a final score. The solution was to include all results from 1924 in evaluating 1925 and then applying six-month increments with spare exception near mid-year dates until the debut of monthly rankings; i.e. Muhammad Ali graces the cover of the December 1972 issue of The Ring. 2 bantamweight in the world and was ranked the top contender at junior lightweight from the March to August 1929 issues. Ali returned to fighting in 1971 and won the heavyweight title twice more before retiring in 1981 with a record of 56-5 and 37 knockouts. The final average score was used to order the fighters in each group for those who made the top 100. Louis knocked out seven of them. Tarver never lost to a fighter ranked outside the top five of their weight class. 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