If you did a top 100 list?
The most no 1 P4P boxers?
If you're looking at history, it's difficult to pin-point any particular weight class. It might be more accurate to pick a window, from a given weight to another given weight.
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Having said that, I think it's best to grade fighters of the last 80 to 100 years. Lets go back to 1910, 114 years. This takes us to the tail end of Jack Johnson's heavyweight reign.
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Given this, the best fighters of the past 100 or so years range between 145 and 165. Look at some names.
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Sugar Ray Robinson
Harry Greb
Henry Armstrong
Sam Langford
Mickey Walker
Roberto Duran
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Sure there are those above and below this division. Here are a few.
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Muhammad ALI
Joe Louis
Jack Dempsey
Rocky Marciano
Jack Johnson
Joe Gans
Willie Pep
Benny Leonard
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There are plenty of great fighters. Naturally, I can't name them all here. The point is that the majority of history's greatest fighters range between 145 and 165 lbs. That takes us between the welterweight and middleweight divisions.
There is no way to know.
If you did top 10 list than every weight division has its own top 10 and every weight division that's heavier has better boxers than the smaller divisions only because of size.
P4P it's also impossible to know because fighters hop around weight divisions.
Example; The International Boxing Research Organization top 5 p4p;
1. Sugar Ray Robinson [a welterweight & middleweight].
2. Harry Greb [a middleweight and lightheavyweight].
3. Henry Armstrong [a featherweight, lightweight and welterweight].
4. Muhammad Ali [a heavyweight]
5. Joe Louis [a heavyweight].
These lists tend to be bias in that they give heavyweights more importance than the smaller guys because popularity plays a part into peoples bias.
Minimumweight's like Ricardo Lopez and flyweights like Jimmy Wilde & Pancho Villa are given few praises because of their size while heavyweights are praised for doing less.
My top 10 are:
1. Muhammad Ali---heavyweight
2. Sugar Ray Robinson---welterweight and middleweight
3. Henry Armstrong---welterweight
4. Willie Pep----featherweight
5. Rocky Marciano---heavyweight
6. Joe Louis---heavyweight
7. Sugar Ray Leonard---welterweight
8. Harry Greb----middleweight
9. Roberto Duran---lightweight
10.Sam Langford---middleweight
It's a tie among welterweights, middleweights and heavyweights
I guess my top 100 and most p4p boxers list will also be a mixed bag composed mostly of welterweights, middleweights and heavyweights.
My p4p list:
Heavyweight: Muhammad Ali, Rock Marciano, Lennox lewis, Joe Louis.
Middleweight: Sugar ray robinson, Bernard Hopkins, RJJ.
Welterweight: Floyd mayweather Jr, Sugar ray Leonard, Thommas hearns.
Lightweight: Roberto Duran, Manny pacquiao.
Middleweights: SRR, Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzon, Bernard Hopkins, Ezzard Charles, Charley Burley, Holman Williams, Marcel Cerdan, Jake Lommota
Heavyweight. Any top 10 all-time greatest boxers would have at least 3 heavyweight shoo-ins in Ali, Louis, Marciano.
Welterweight, Robinson, Armstrong, Duran, Leonard, Hearns, Mayweather the list can go on and on
welter weight with out doubt ,robinson,armstrong,leonard
middleweight
If you did a top 10 list?
If you did a top 100 list?
The most no 1 P4P boxers?
