Top Boxers Of All Time Ring Magazine

Ring magazine s fourth greatest puncher of all time archie moore had a record reign as world light heavyweight champion holding the title for 10 consecutive years between 1952 and 1962.

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Having made his boxing debut in 1968 duran fought his last. In 2002 the writers of ring magazine published a ranking of the 80 best fighters of the previous 80 years. The entirely subjective nature of any list comparing fighters across different weight categories and different eras is bound to be fodder for debate. He was named the fifth greatest fighter of the last 80 years by the ring and the eighth greatest boxer of all time by bert sugar.

Meet ring magazine s top 10 fighteres. 1 on all 30 ballots he would have had a perfect score of 30. This list was no exception. In 2003 ring magazine published the ring magazine top 100 punchers of all time list the greatest big hitters pound for pound ever.

49 0 43 kos career notes. Here are the top 25 greatest boxers of all time. However it should be noted that the view of caplan who turned 80 last year is one that should be respected. Most publications have armstrong ranked in the top five greatest boxers of all time and many of them have him ranked as one of the top two or three.

If one of the fighters had been ranked no. 66 3 52 kos the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949 joe louis is one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He also achieved the ring magazine s fighter of the year twice. Espn named him as the greatest pound for pound boxers of the last 25 years.

The top 10 heavyweight boxers in the world right now have been ranked remembering floyd mayweather s brutal cheap shot that ko d victor ortiz david haye names his top 10 heavyweights of all time. This was our list of the top 10 greatest boxers of all time. This time a repeated refrain was i could do this again tomorrow and except for the top few guys on my list i might have a different order. Duran is one of only two boxers to have had a career spanning five decades along with jack johnson.

But in the end a consensus emerged.