1 contender was worth 10, etc. 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. The Ring ranked him as Duran retired with a record of 103-16 with 70 knockouts. 8. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. 1 vs. No. In 2005, Joe Louis was named the greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. Griffith could be defeated, but his ability to consistently rebound from losses was remarkable. 1 ranking at flyweight in the era when The Ring did not recognize singular champions. Join our newsletter to get info about latest events and deals! The points scale shifted for those years. 1 contender spot from the April 1949 issue until earning recognition from The Ring as heavyweight champion in the December 1950 issue following a win over an unranked and recently unretired Joe Louis. 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. However there is no denying that the current crop a field that includes a champion and the top 10 contenders). Antonio Cervantes SD 15* (C) 140 04/76, Tony Petronelli TKO 3 (9) 140 12/76, Guerrero Chavez TKO 15 (10+) 147 09/77, Carlos Palomino SD 15* (C+) 147 03/79, Ray Leonard TKO by 15* (1) 147 01/80, Tony Chiaverini TKO 8 (3+) 154 09/80, Davey Moore TKO by 2 (10) 154 08/84, Matthew Hilton KO by 9 (10-) 154 04/86, First Ring Ranking: #10 Bantamweight (July 1934), Last Ring Ranking: #3 Bantamweight (February 1945), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 21-16-11 (5 KO, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Bantamweight (1941-42). On The Ring magazines list of all-time heavyweights, Dempsey holds the 10 th position and 7 th position among the Top 100 greatest punchers. Prior to championships at featherweight and lightweight, Canzoneri was rated the No. Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao were the Fighters of the Decade for the 2000s and the 2010s. Where does Joe Rogan rank among the greatest boxers of all time?.. Canzoneri was the No. A consistent factor at welterweight and middleweight from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, Griffith won five world championships against a bevy of tough competition. 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. Basilio also had a win that didnt count toward him versus then-10th ranked welterweight Don Jordan in 1961. 15 Vitali Klitschko. He entered the heavyweight ratings at No. The NBA recognized the title change when Canzoneri stopped Jackie Kid Berg in three in 1931 with both Bergs junior welterweight crown and Canzoneris lightweight crown billed as at stake. Mayweathers most impressive run may have come in his first weight class with five wins over ranked opposition in title fights at junior lightweight. Group one: anyone who finished in the top 100 of all three scoring categories or whose scoring average was higher than those who did. Charles was The Rings leading light heavyweight contender for all but two issues from August 1946 to October 1948 without ever receiving a title shot. Digging into pro boxing in 1998, Ann boasts one of the most successful So, LaMotta was The Rings No. 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. 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. After a standout amateur career, he turned pro in 1934. He was a damn good boxer and a great man thanks for your time in the ring. From February 1946 to losing the heavyweight title to Jersey Joe Walcott in July 1951, Charles went 39-1 overall with a 20-1 mark against opponents ranked at light heavyweight and heavyweight. 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. 1 contender spot at middleweight just once, in the March 1943 issue. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. 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. Andrew Eisele is a boxing writer who has covered the sport for Time, Inc. Randall Yonker had previously been ranked at both super middleweight and light heavyweight but was unranked when McCallum defeated him in 1994. Armstrong retired in 1946 with a record of 151-21-9 with 101 knockouts. Rankings from 1925-1928 had no monthly movement. Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight champion for the inaugural rankings in 1925 and was rated fourth. He topped Tim Bradley in two of their three fights. T o celebrate its centenary, boxing magazine The Ring has ranked the Robinson is one of only three fighters in the study identified with 40 or more victories over Ring champions or ranked contenders. Indian Quintana UD 10 (7) 118 02/35, Jack Sharkey Jr. D 8 (UR+) 126 08/36, Jackie Callura D 10 (UR+) 126 05/40, Lou Transparenti L 10 (9) 118 04/41, Lou Transparenti UD 15* (5) 118 06/41, David Kui Kong Young L 10 (4) -118 12/41, Manuel Ortiz TKO by 11 (C) 118 04/43, First Ring Ranking: #8 Welterweight (June 1953), Last Ring Ranking: #8 Middleweight (June 1960), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 9-4-3 (4 KO, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Welterweight (1955-56, 56-57), Middleweight (1957-58). Of note, the parameters of this study exclude Alis final loss to a rated Trevor Berbick. Joe Calzaghe won Ring Magazine championships at super middleweight and light heavyweight. From his entry into the Ring rankings until the Saddler loss, Peps record against champions and contenders from bantamweight to lightweight was 22-1-1, included wins over one of the dominant bantamweight champions ever in Manuel Ortiz and future lightweight champion Paddy DeMarco. Group two was anyone else who finished in the top 100 for peak score and ranked wins but not overall points (65-69). 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. Moore suffered defeats to Teddy Yarosz and Shorty Hogue as well before breaking through at middleweight with a win over Ron Richards. 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 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. Robinson would stay ranked No. Robinson was Rings 1942 and 1951 Fighter of the Year. Readers will note no such credit from The Ring. 22, 1926), Getty Images/The Stanley Weston Archive / Contributor, Benny Leonard (April 7, 1896April 18, 1947), Oscar De La Hoya Career Record, Fight-by-Fight, Meet the 15 Best MMA Fighters of All Time, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Fight-by-Fight Career Record, Bernard Hopkins Fight-By-Fight Career Record, Ring Magazine Top 100 Punchers Of All Time. Pep spent only six months in the top 10, two of them as No. For now, thank you again for taking the time to read and thank you to the editors at The Ring for their support of this project. Who are the rest of the best? The study tried to respect the varying standards The Ring has used to rank fighters over the last century. Conversely, some scoring luck in Alis second reign against Jimmy Young and Ken Norton contributed to his placement here. Wilsons final Ring ranking, ninth at featherweight, came in the February 1946 issue. 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. 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). The stretch to Marciano was one of Moores most impressive. 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. Robinson retired 25 years later with a record of 175-19 and 110 knockouts.. Moores record entering his challenge of Maxim was 133-19-8. 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. Along with his five world title wins, Griffith also posted wins over No. 1 contenders. [California Jackie Wilson MD 10 (3) 147, Henry Armstrong UD 10 (3) 147 10/43, Vic Dellicurti UD 10 (10+) 160 01/45, Georgie Abrams SD 10 (3+) 160 07/47, Bernard Docusen UD 15 (1) 147 08/48, Steve Belloise RTD 7 (2+) 160 10/49, Robert Villemain UD 15 (3) 160 07/50, Robert Villemain TKO 9 (5) 160 02/51, Joey Maxim RTD by 13 (C+) 175 08/52, Rocky Castellani SD 10 (2) 160 09/55, Carmen Basilio L 15* (C-) 147 10/57, Carmen Basilio SD 15* (C) 160 04/58. WebTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (50-41) #50 Torres entered ranked sixth at light heavyweight when he unseated Willie Pastrano. A plus symbol + next to an opponents ranking means he was ranked in the weight class above the fighter being examined. 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. Benitez then captured the welterweight crown from Carlos Palomino before losing in his first defense to Sugar Ray Leonard. 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 He remained active in boxing, refereeing frequently until dying of a heart attack while officiating at a match in 1947. 29 Bob Fitzsimmons. Hernandez would go on to be ranked, and win a belt, in the 130-pound class in the years after that fight. Mayweather was 8-0 against ranked welterweights, including a feud-settling decision over his most prominent contemporary in Manny Pacquiao to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO belts. 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. He won the world welterweight title in 1946 and held it for five years, then captured the world middleweight title in 1957. He was 3-0 against ranked junior middleweights, including handing Canelo Alvarez his first and to date only loss. Bivins just missed being another contender on the ledger for Louis here. He turned pro after the Olympics and went on to win titles in the lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight divisions. WebNow looking through all 100 of the boxers Ring Magazine named and ranked would leave us, and you as the reader, here all day, so instead, wee decided to look into their top 30. Missing Quality: Canzoneri came close to being the first fighter with titles in four weight classes. The inexhaustible Welshman tied the record for defenses of a title at super middleweight with Germanys Sven Ottke. Missing Quality: Lesnevich posted wins in 1936 and 37 over Young Stuhley. 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. 10) By the time he retired in 1925, he had a record of 89-6-1 with 70 knockouts. Missing Quality: A little luck goes a long way, and Griffiths three wins over Rodriguez were all by split decision. Ali was arrested in 1966 for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army, a case that did not end until the U.S. Supreme Court exonerated him in 1971. 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). How tough? results from January-June 1925 used the 1925 annual and the rest of the year used 1926s. Moore had slipped from the middleweight top 10 after a knockout loss to Eddie Booker. Leonard retired with a record of 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts. Win total ties were broken based on peak score. Other new names will enter with the passage of time. An asterisk * is used to note a Ring championship title change or a vacancy being filled. Louis began facing contenders just a dozen fights into his career and kept facing them for the rest of it. 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. IV/05, Marco Antonio Barrera UD 12 (3) 130 01/08, Juan Manuel Marquez SD 12* (2) 130 06/08, Oscar De La Hoya RTD 8 (3+++) 154 02/09, Juan Manuel Marquez MD 12 (C) 135 01/12, Timothy Bradley L 12 (1-) 140 08/12, Juan Manuel Marquez KO by 6 (4-) 140 02/13, Timothy Bradley UD 12 (1) 147 06/14, Floyd Mayweather L 12 (C/C+) 147/154 07/15, Timothy Bradley UD 12 (4) 147 07/16, Lucas Matthysse TKO 7 (9) 147 09/18, First Ring Ranking: #2 Middleweight (March 1942), Last Ring Ranking: #10 Heavyweight (April 1956), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 36-16-1 (19 KOs, 5 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1950-51). A thrilling boxer-puncher with exceptional physical strength and stamina, Griffith was No. Basilios defeats in the second Fullmer fight, and versus Pender, came after Basilios final Ring ranking and didnt work against him here. 1 contender in the December 1935 issue and held it until the August 1936 issue before his loss to Max Schmeling. 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. 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. 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. 1 contender was worth 10, etc. 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. 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. When Robinson handed 42-0 future welterweight champion Marty Servo his first loss in September 1941, Servo had yet to crack Rings top 10. History could have played differently for both with just a few rounds of difference. Above welterweight, Nino Benvenuti won their series 2-1. McCallum is in the conversation for the greatest Jr. middleweight in the divisions history. Ali was Rings 1963 (as Cassius Clay), 1966 (retroactively), 1972 (with Carlos Monzon), 1974, 1975 and 1978 Fighter of the Year. 1 contender, before winning a title he would hold in his first reign for almost six years. Their rankings in each category were then averaged into a final score. After representing Jamaica at the 1976 Olympics, the Body Snatcher would win titles at Jr. middleweight, middleweight, and light heavyweight. so that Who is the WWE world heavyweight champion 2020? Pep won his first 62 fights with four wins against Ring-ranked opposition, including his featherweight title win over Chalky Wright, before his career was three years old. Among them Sugar Ray Robinsons draw versus Henry Brimm was omitted in the initial findings and is added here and the ranking for Henry Cooper prior to his rematch with Muhammad Ali is updated (it was off by one issue; credit to historian Henry Hascup). Historians recognize Canzoneri as a three-division champion. Benitez was unranked when he defeated Antonio Cervantes for his first title, spending his entire tenure in The Rings rankings at Jr. welterweight as champion. Join our newsletter to get info about latest events and deals! The No. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. 8. He would enter the top 10 of his signature weight class in the March 1945 issue and have several stints as the top contender in all but one issue from August 1945-July 1946; the June-August 1949 issues; and then for all but two issues from April 1950 to his victory over Maxim for the title as recognized in the February 1953 issue. As an interesting footnote, a fight that has gained fame over time came at a time when Moore was unranked: his defeat at the hands of Charley Burley. 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. 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. He was in Rings 1963, 1964, 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1978 Fights of the Year. Antonio Tarver. Draws against ranked opponents were worth half a win; draws against unranked opponents were a six-point deduction. 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. Lesnevich recaptured the top spot the issue before assuming the mantle left vacant in The Ring by Billy Conns move to heavyweight. WebHe is a two-time heavyweight world champion, and also held the unified WBA, WBC, Armstrong, born Henry Jackson Jr., turned pro in 1931. 30 Terry McGovern. Louis might have been unranked when Charles defeated him, but Louis would immediately return to the top 10 after the loss and added two more top 10 wins before his career was complete. Lesnevich retired after a losing crack at the NBA heavyweight title versus Ezzard Charles. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Benitez would earn a number one ranking at Jr. middleweight after stopping Maurice Hope for the WBC belt, Benitezs last championship. The Brooklyn bantamweight spent more than a decade in or near the top ten after winning bronze at the 1932 Olympics. Ali would defend the title successfully 10 times in his second reign, with seven wins against The Rings top 10. The entry of Lomachenko and Buchanan bumped Fidel LaBarba and Lou Brouillard out of the top 100. Alis last win would come in avenging a stunning upset loss to Leon Spinks, retiring as champion before an ill-fated comeback. 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. The FINAL TEN of Cliff Rolds unique evaluation of The Rings 97-year-old divisional ratings and the 100 fighters who faced the best of their respective weight classes and eras during their time in the Bible of Boxings rankings. 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