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1 contender for only an issue before snagging his first title from Benny Paret. Griffiths 1962 win over Ted Wright crowned the first junior middleweight titlist (at least in Austria, where the bout took place, and other parts of Europe), though the WBA wouldnt recognize the title on a global scale until soon after when Moyer defeated Joey Giambra. How tough? Calzaghe captured every major sanctioning body belt (if not all at the same time), and earned recognition as champion from The Ring over the course of a decade. The entirely subjective nature of any list comparing fighters across different weight categories and different eras is bound to be fodder for debate. Photo: The Ring archive. Fights in italics denote results using rankings taken from KO Magazine. This is a project intended to be kept up for as long as Ring continues to issue rankings and there is thought to publishing all of the findings of the study, in an expanded format, later on. Pacquiao couldnt solve the riddle of Mayweather in the richest fight of all time, but several multi-fight rivalries magnified the greatness of Pacquiao. 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. Along with Ring Magazine titles at featherweight, junior lightweight and junior welterweight, Pacquiao also achieved No. Duran retired with a record of 103-16 with 70 knockouts. Over time, these results will continue to change. Willie Pastrano TKO 9* (C) 175 05/65, First Ring Ranking: #4 Light Heavyweight (January 1933), Last Ring Ranking: World Light Heavyweight Champion (January 1940), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 16-9-4 (4 KO, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (1935-39). Lulu Constantino UD 10 (6+) 135 09/44], Jimmy McAllister D 10 (UR) 126 01/46, Humberto Sierra UD 10 (8) 126 09/47, Humberto Sierra TKO 10 (1) 126 04/48, Sandy Saddler KO by 4* (1) 126 12/48, Sandy Saddler RTD by 8* (1) 126 10/50, Corky Gonzales UD 10 (10) 126 10/51, Sandy Saddler RTD by 9 (C) 126 11/51, Tommy Collins TKO by 6 (10) 126 08/52, Hogan Bassey TKO by 9 (C) 126 11/58, First Ring Ranking: #10 Jr. Lightweight (July 1998), Last Ring Ranking: Welterweight Champion (December 2015), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 23-0 (8 KOs), Ring Magazine Championships: Lightweight (2002-04), Welterweight (2006-08, 13-15), Jr. Middleweight (2013-15). 1 contender at heavyweight from the July 1955-January 1957 issues, though boxings highest honor eluded him. Missing Quality: Lesnevich posted wins in 1936 and 37 over Young Stuhley. However, in editing the remainder of the study, the Armstrong knockout of Davis was also found in the results of the August 1944 issue. He won the world welterweight title in 1946 and held it for five years, then captured the world middleweight title in 1957. The junior middleweight division today is a 60-year stalwart of the game, but in the 1960s it was a new concept with which Griffith lightly flirted. Calzaghe rose to number one for the first time in the September 1999 issue and fell no lower than fourth until holding the number one spot from the November 2003 issue until being crowned champion after his win over Jeff Lacy. 2-ranked bantamweight defeated the No. After a standout amateur career, he turned pro in 1934. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Web1. Leonard learned how to fight on the streets of New York City, where he grew up in the Jewish enclave on the Lower East Side. Career Record: 31-6-1 (22 KO) First Ring Ranking: #10 Light Heavyweight Moore made the most of his opportunity and would be recognized by The Ring as champion for the next decade. In a 111-fight career, nearly half of Griffiths opponents could be found ranked in the pages of Ring Magazine. Seven months later, Pep defeated him by wide decision. To be the best, you have to beat the best. He remained active in boxing, refereeing frequently until dying of a heart attack while officiating at a match in 1947. It would be more fair if his place was debated more like versions of Van Halen. The exception was fighters moving up to face heavyweights. 10 contender. A missing win in the initial tabulation for former lightweight champion Ken Buchanan was also identified and incorporated, pushing Buchanan into the top 100. The loss to Schmeling would be Louis only defeat from his 1934 debut until a loss to Ezzard Charles in 1950 after a brief retirement. While the nickname Bum of the Month Club lingers on, a deeper look reveals those bums to be an assortment of the best heavyweights in the world for a generation. Missing Quality: Peps dominance at featherweight included recognizable names who werent far removed from contention when Pep defeated them. Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time As selected by The Of note, the parameters of this study exclude Alis final loss to a rated Trevor Berbick. Thanks for signing up! That effort has continued since initial publication, revising and updating the findings for new results since November 2021 and seeking to correct any omissions or errors found since the study was first submitted. The inexhaustible Welshman tied the record for defenses of a title at super middleweight with Germanys Sven Ottke. As an additional clarification based on a question from a reader, the totals assigned to the Record vs. Ring-rated opponents correspond to the scoring results section for each fighter. Missing Quality: Charles is lauded by many, including biographer William Dettloff while writing for The Ring, as the greatest light heavyweight of all time. Lesnevich also posted a win in 1937 over Atilio Sabatino; Sabatino would go on to be ranked for chunks of time at middleweight between 1938 and 1940. One of her most memorable fights was when she had the greatest knockout in female boxing history after she sent Vanda Ward to the ground, unconscious, with one punch. Robinson was recognized as the welterweight champion until the March 1951 issue while also holding the No. Missing Quality: Prior to entering the top ten, Lewis posted a win over tenth ranked Yale Okun in April 1932 but didnt earn a ranking for the win. 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. Toney was ranked seventh when he shocked Michael Nunn for the IBF belt less than three years into his career. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Carmen Basilio, between rounds of his fight-of-the-year rematch with Sugar Ray Robinson, is the epitome of the blood-and-guts warrior. For instance, champions havent automatically secured the top spot in every era of Ring rankings. Of the 25 fighters identified with between 20 and 29 wins against ranked foes, Mayweather finished the highest. 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. 3. Win total ties were broken based on peak score. An additional win was identified for Henry Armstrong, forcing a flipping of position between Armstrong and Pernell Whitaker. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. For instance, if a No. 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. 24, 1988), Muhammad Ali (Jan. 17, 1942June 3, 2016), Joe Louis (May 13, 1914April 12, 1981), Getty Images/Hulton Archive / Stringer, Willie Pep (Sept. 19, 1922Nov. The rankings of the August 1944 issue of The Ring carried an as of date of June 10. 1-ranked fighter became the 11-point win, deduction for an unranked loss was eleven points, and unranked draws were a 5.5-point deduction. An asterisk * is used to note a Ring championship title change or a vacancy being filled. 2023 RING TV LIVE. Were here! WebTop 10 greatest pound-for-pound fighters of all time according to Ring Magazine the This one came down to fine print. 34 Marcel Cerdan. Missing Quality: Torres was matched tough on his way up, going to a draw with unranked future welterweight champion Benny Paret and suffering his only knockout loss to unranked veteran Florentino Fernandez in 1963. 1 contender was worth 10, etc. 32 Packey McFarland. Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight champion for the inaugural rankings in 1925 and was rated fourth. Prior to championships at featherweight and lightweight, Canzoneri was rated the No. 100-91, counting down by sets of 10 to the top 10 rated fighters. 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. Two issues later, Robinsons defeat of former welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic resulted in Robinson being ranked the No. Thats really earning a shot at the champ. Sammy Angott handed him his first defeat in a lightweight contest in March 1943. Often regarded as the greatest fighter of all time, Robinsons results highlight just how dominant he was in his prime. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! 2-ranked featherweight, 126 was divided by 118 and then multiplied by standard win/loss points, making the win worth 9.61 points to the bantamweight and the loss a deduction of 3.2 points for the featherweight. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. 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). Robinson turned professional in October 1940 and rose to No. Tarver posted a win and draw against Johnathon Banks and Steve Cunningham to close his career. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. That included his most legendary win, the first-round knockout of Max Schmeling in their rematch. Oh my god! 1 vs. No. Floyd Mayweather Jr. on the cover of the April 1999 issue of The Ring. Remarkably, after more than three years of political exclusion from the game, Ali skipped tune-ups and defeated two prominent contenders to set up his first of three fights with Joe Frazier. 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. 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. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Twelve of those 23 wins came against men The Ring recognized in their division as champion, No. That same year, he won the world featherweight title. The second Wilson win came shortly after that. Wilsons final Ring ranking, ninth at featherweight, came in the February 1946 issue. Alis last win would come in avenging a stunning upset loss to Leon Spinks, retiring as champion before an ill-fated comeback. Kane and LaMotta were each missing a result. Stuhley was unranked before either contest but had been ranked at middleweight earlier in 1936 and occasionally since 1932. Andrew Eisele is a boxing writer who has covered the sport for Time, Inc. 33 Ted (Kid) Lewis. 1-ranked heavyweight Nino Valdez to set up an ill-fated shot at Rocky Marciano. Over the next several days, RingTV.com will present Rolds list in its entirety, beginning with Nos. All rights reserved. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. In nine fights against the Mexican trio of Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao was an impressive 6-2-1 and rebounded from a devastating knockout loss to Marquez in the last of those fights to add seven more wins over ranked opponents before what appears to be his farewell loss to Yordenis Ugas. 27 Abe Attell. (Getty Images). 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. From that win over Genaro Hernandez to his farewell against mixed martial artist Conor McGregor, Mayweather would face 23 men found in the Ring rankings across 33 fights. Toney achieved and held a number three ranking at heavyweight for two different stretches, forfeiting the WBA belt he initially won against John Ruiz and getting a draw in a challenge of WBC titlist Hasim Rahman. 2 contenders, and bested No. Moore suffered defeats to Teddy Yarosz and Shorty Hogue as well before breaking through at middleweight with a win over Ron Richards. When Robinson handed 42-0 future welterweight champion Marty Servo his first loss in September 1941, Servo had yet to crack Rings top 10. Milton McCrory TKO 10 (7) 154 KO 08/87, Career Record: 77-10-3, 2 No Contest (47 KO), First Ring Ranking: #7 Middleweight (May 1991), Last Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (September 2007), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 10-6-2, 1 No Contest (5 KO), Ring Magazine Championships: None (See Missing Quality). List of the 10 greatest heavyweight boxers of all time: Has 8. Moore moved in and out of the middleweight top 10 from 1940 to 1944, reaching the No. So, LaMotta was The Rings No. 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. 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. Across the years he was part of the Ring rankings, Robinson would post 14 wins over reigning champions or men ranked as the No. The exception was fighters moving up to face heavyweights. Canzoneris record is loaded with multi-fight rivalries, including a four-way round robin with Jimmy McLarnin, Barney Ross and Billy Petrolle. Missing Quality: On the way to Nunn, Toney defeated a Merqui Sosa who would later be ranked at super middleweight and light heavyweight. 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. McCallum is in the conversation for the greatest Jr. middleweight in the divisions history. A loss to the champion was a one-point deduction sliding to 11 for a loss to the No. 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. Benitez would earn a number one ranking at Jr. middleweight after stopping Maurice Hope for the WBC belt, Benitezs last championship. Had The Ring continued to recognize champions in 1991, Toneys win over Nunn would have made him The Ring middleweight champion dating to their recognition of Sumbu Kalambay. Just as the men who ranked from #20 to #11 were beyond mere hall of famers, each individual in the top 10 is a bonafide all-time great the man the world knows as THE GREATEEST and the Sweet Scientist that The Greatest and most boxing historians called the G.O.A.T are among the near-mythical legends and modern icons in this group. 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. Web13 Jack Johnson. 1 in title and non-title affairs. A 1939 win over Tony Olivera had already earned Salica recognition in New York and The Ring added to his accolades following the Lou Transparenti win in 1941. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. A loss to the champion was a one-point deduction sliding to 11 for a loss to the No. Losses and draws to unranked fighters are part of that total and it doesnt reflect results against ranked opponents outside the scope of the study. The following year, he bulked up to fight for and win the world welterweight title, then slimmed down and captured the world lightweight belt. Click here to purchase a copy of the Collectors Issue from the Ring Shop. WebThere were many undisputed champions before the number of sanctioning bodies increased to four, but there have only been five boxers to hold all four titles simultaneously. Sugar Ray Robinson graces the cover of the December 1949 cover of The Ring. George Foreman Scoring a pair of second-round TKOs of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton are a sample size of how terrifying Foreman was in 1 contender was worth 10, etc. Benitez then captured the welterweight crown from Carlos Palomino before losing in his first defense to Sugar Ray Leonard. Charles also posted an early career win over Teddy Yarosz just one month after Yarosz exited the Ring rankings for the last time. Replace Marvin Hagler with Benitez and one still has a four-man, nine-fight series which included a near flawless masterpiece of skill in Benitezs lopsided decision over Duran. Greb, whose face had taken a beating over the years, died later that year during cosmetic surgery.

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