So, LaMotta was The Rings No. Note: With some fighters of the more-distant past, there is often disagreement about their final records. Saddler and Pep would face off one more time, Pep losing the series to his archrival 3-1 with all three losses inside the distance. McCallum is in the conversation for the greatest Jr. middleweight in the divisions history. Web26 Eder Jofre. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Moore had slipped from the middleweight top 10 after a knockout loss to Eddie Booker. However, there was only room to present the detailed accomplishments of the top 25 fighters rated according to Cliff Rolds criteria which was based on their records vs. fellow Ring-rated opposition dating back to 1925, when the magazine began posting divisional rankings. 1 contender in their division. Chatchai Sasakul KO 8 (2) 112 03/99, Medgoen Singsurat TKO by 3 (UR) 112 Holiday/99, Agapito Sanchez Tech. 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. 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. Armstrong, born Henry Jackson Jr., turned pro in 1931. The world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, Joe Louis is one of 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 technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Louis reached No. 2 and ultimately held the No. Moores first win over Jack Chase came when Chase was unranked, though Chases name comes up often from there. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. The No. Armstrong defeated Al Bummy Davis on June 15, 1944. Join our newsletter to get info about latest events and deals! Sammy Angott handed him his first defeat in a lightweight contest in March 1943. 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. 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. 1 contender spot at middleweight from the November 1949 issue until he won his first of five middleweight crowns in the storied St. Valentines Day Massacre versus Jake LaMotta. Were here! If the featherweight won, 118 would be divided by 126 with the win worth 8.42 points for the featherweight and the loss meaning a deduction of 2.81 points for the bantamweight. Basilios defeats in the second Fullmer fight, and versus Pender, came after Basilios final Ring ranking and didnt work against him here. 1 contender at lightweight for all but two issues from October 1929 to July 1930 following his title reign at featherweight. Moore moved in and out of the middleweight top 10 from 1940 to 1944, reaching the No. 2023 RING TV LIVE. However, in editing the remainder of the study, the Armstrong knockout of Davis was also found in the results of the August 1944 issue. 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). 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. 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. Thought was given to leaving the results as they were for this online edition but it wouldnt have followed the methodology employed and wouldnt have given readers the best findings possible as they are now. 7. To best display the range of data, they were then divided into four groups to settle on the final 100. Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather, Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao 10) 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. He turned pro after the Olympics and went on to win titles in the lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight divisions. An additional win was identified for Henry Armstrong, forcing a flipping of position between Armstrong and Pernell Whitaker. 1 contender at heavyweight from the July 1955-January 1957 issues, though boxings highest honor eluded him. The second Wilson win came shortly after that. Lewis would move up and down the rankings for a few years, as high as number one and never lower than seventh, and was ranked third when he unseated Bob Olin for the title. Basilio also beat Gaspar Ortega in 1961 between stretches in the top ten at welterweight for Ortega. 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. 50. Moore faced everyone in the famed murderers row of the 1930s and 40s, and while he didnt best them all, Moores remarkable durability allowed him to long outlast the field. There are, after all, several active fighters on the list. Alejandro Lavorante KO 5 (10) Hvy 09/62, Floyd Patterson TKO 12 (1) Hvy 12/65, Karl Mildenberger TKO 12 (3) Hvy 9/66, Cleveland Williams TKO 3 (3) Hvy 01/67, Oscar Bonavena TKO 15 (3) Hvy 02/71, Floyd Patterson RTD 7 (3) Hvy 11/72, Larry Holmes RTD by 10 (C) Hvy 10/80, First Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (February 1935), Last Ring Ranking: #6 Heavyweight (March 1952), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 31-3 (24 KOs, 2 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1937-49). He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame as well. 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. 1 contender, along with a win over reigning light heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis. Mayweathers junior lightweight run came during the era where The Ring didnt render championships. Click here to read the introduction to the rankings feature, Click here to purchase a copy of the Collectors Issue. WebTop 10 greatest pound-for-pound fighters of all time according to Ring Magazine the We have used BoxRec.com as our source. Of note, the parameters of this study exclude Alis final loss to a rated Trevor Berbick. Charles lost most of three years activity (between 1943-45) to service in World War II and left for the war with a professional mark of 30-4-1. 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. After a standout amateur career, he turned pro in 1934. 22, 1926) Known for his ability to deliver (and results from January-June 1925 used the 1925 annual and the rest of the year used 1926s. a champion and the top 10 contenders). 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. Fights in italics denote results using rankings taken from KO Magazine. Seventeen of Louis 25 defenses came against ranked heavyweights, seven of them Rings No. The Filipino icon cracked Ring Magazine top 10s in four different decades from the 1990s to the 2020s with wins over reigning champions or opponents ranked in the top two of every weight class he competed in from flyweight to welterweight. Leonard retired with a record of 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts. Charles also posted an early career win over Teddy Yarosz just one month after Yarosz exited the Ring rankings for the last time. Those were treated as that months rankings and, if needed, were reordered as champion and top 10 to maintain consistency. When he retired in 1966, he had a record of 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts. Joe Calzaghe won Ring Magazine championships at super middleweight and light heavyweight. 1 ranking at flyweight in the era when The Ring did not recognize singular champions. 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 Sugar Ray Robinson (May 3, 1921April 12, 1989), Henry Armstrong (Dec. 12, 1912Oct. Missing Quality: On the way to Nunn, Toney defeated a Merqui Sosa who would later be ranked at super middleweight and light heavyweight. Greb, whose face had taken a beating over the years, died later that year during cosmetic surgery. He topped Tim Bradley in two of their three fights. Some other small corrections have been made to results and summaries but they didnt change the final results. In 2002, the writers of Ring Magazine published a ranking of the 80 best fighters of the previous 80 years. 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. Montell Griffin UD 12 (4) 175 08/03, Bernard Hopkins L 12* (2) 160 09/06. Antonio Tarver. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Missing Quality: Lesnevich posted wins in 1936 and 37 over Young Stuhley. 1 vs. No. Lynch was credited with one too many. 32 Packey McFarland. Lesnevich recaptured the top spot the issue before assuming the mantle left vacant in The Ring by Billy Conns move to heavyweight. The big punching Ray turned pro in 1933 and would spend most of the second half of the 1940s as a heavyweight contender. 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 first two wins against Maxim came in 1942 when Maxim was unranked and often competing at heavyweight. 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. Readers will note no such credit from The Ring. Thats really earning a shot at the champ. Losses to unranked opponents drew a universal 12-point deduction. Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", Louis' He won the world lightweight title in 1916, going 15-0 during that run. These are the best of the best. Robinson turned professional in October 1940 and rose to No. Andrew Eisele is a boxing writer who has covered the sport for Time, Inc. A formula based on body weight percentage differences between divisions of ranked fighters, rather than scale weights of the fighters, was applied. Sugar Ray Robinson set the bar by which all other modern boxers are judged. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. 1-ranked heavyweight Nino Valdez to set up an ill-fated shot at Rocky Marciano. He remained active in boxing, refereeing frequently until dying of a heart attack while officiating at a match in 1947. 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 First Ring Ranking: #6 Light Heavyweight (November 1936), Last Ring Ranking: #2 Light Heavyweight (July 1949), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 17-13-3 (8 KO, 5 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (1941-48). 2-ranked bantamweight defeated the No. Pacquiao couldnt solve the riddle of Mayweather in the richest fight of all time, but several multi-fight rivalries magnified the greatness of Pacquiao. Kane and LaMotta were each missing a result. 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. Digging into pro boxing in 1998, Ann boasts one of the most successful careers, with a 24-1-1 record. (Photo: Ring/Getty Images). 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. WebTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (50-41) #50 Joe Louis. 1 contenders at welterweight (Harry Dublinsky, McLarnin). Ali was Rings 1963 (as Cassius Clay), 1966 (retroactively), 1972 (with Carlos Monzon), 1974, 1975 and 1978 Fighter of the Year. The inexhaustible Welshman tied the record for defenses of a title at super middleweight with Germanys Sven Ottke. Davis was ranked fifth at welterweight in the July 1944 issue but not at all in the following issue. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. 2 bantamweight in the world and was ranked the top contender at junior lightweight from the March to August 1929 issues. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! In 2002, he was named one of the 25 greatest fighters of the past 80 years by The Ring magazine. Terence Crawford advanced his standing with a win over a ranked Shawn Porter while Vasiliy Lomachenko entered the top 100 with his latest win over a ranked Richard Commey. 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. Mayweather was nearly untouchable in the class. A loss to the champion was a one-point deduction sliding to 11 for a loss to the No. McCallum won the vacant WBA belt versus Sean Mannion in 1984, rose to number one in Rings rankings in the September 1984 edition, and stayed there almost a year. The points scale shifted for those years. Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight champion for the inaugural rankings in 1925 and was rated fourth. 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