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 | My thoughts in the Ring Magazine's 100 greatest punchers of all time? | 1. Joe Louis
2. Sam Langford
3. Jimmy Wilde
4. Archie Moore
5. Sandy Saddler
6. Julian Jackson
7. Jack Dempsey
8. Bob Fitzsimmons
9. George Foreman
10. Earnie Shavers
11. Sugar Ray Robinson
12. Ruben Olivares
13. Wilfredo Gomez
14. Rocky Marciano
15. Sonny Liston
16. Mike Tyson
17. Bob Foster
18. Thomas Hearns
19. Khaosai Galaxy
20. Alexis Arguello
21. Carlos Zarate
22. Max Baer
23. Rocky Graziano
24. Matthew Saad Muhammad
25. Rocky Sekorski
26. Danny Lopez
27. Gerald McClellan
28. Roberto Duran
29. Rodrigo Valdez
30. Felix Trinidad
31. Pipino Cuevas
32. James J. Jeffries
33. Lennox Lewis
34. Bennie Briscoe
35. Marvin Hagler
36. Edwin Rosario
37. Tommy Ryan
38. John Mugabi
39. Joe Frazier
40. Carlos Monzon
41. Tony Zale
42. Michael Spinks
43. Joe Gans
44. Elmer Ray
45. George Godfrey
46. Naseem Hamed
47. Alfonso Zamora
48. David Tua
49. Cleveland Williams
50. Julio Cesar Chavez
51. Tiger Jack Fox
52. Joe Walcott
53. Gerry Cooney
54. Al Bummy Davis
55. Max Schmeling
56. Florentino Fernandez
57. Henry Armstrong
58. Bob Satterfield
59. Al Hostak
60. Jesus Pimentel
61. Eugene Hart
62. Lew Jenkins
63. Harry Wills
64. Tom Sharkey
65. Terry McGovern
66. Jersey Joe Walcott
67. Kostya Tszyu
68. Leotis Martin
69. Buddy Baer
70. Donovan Ruddock
71. Jose Luis Ramirez
72. Tommy Gomez
73. Jose Napoles
74. Kid McCoy
75. Antonio Esparragoza
76. Ricardo Moreno
77. Evander Holyfield
78. Ike Williams
79. Luis Firpo
80. Ricardo Lopez
81. Humberto Gonzalez
82. Bobby Chacon
83. Jock McAvoy
84. Eduardo Lausse
85. Eder Jofre
86. Charley Burley
87. Mike McCallum
88. Salvador Sanchez
89. Roy Jones Jr.
90. Rodolfo Gato Gonzalez
91. Nigel Benn
92. Bob Murphy
93. Paul Berlenbach
94. Battling Torres
95. Chalky Wright
96. George Chaney
97. Andy Ganigan
98. Fred Fulton
99. Ingemar Johansson
100. Charley White
Khaosai Galaxy should not be above Arguello and Zarate or even Danny Lopez. Edwin Rosario should trade places with James J. Jeffries and Joe Frazier should trade places with Lennox Lewis.
I would trade Jack Dempsey's place for Bob Foster's. I woul switch Wilfredo Gomez and Ruben Olivares around, trade Rocky Marciano for Tommy Hearns. Andi Ganigan should trade places with Jose Luis Ramirez.
I can't decide who to trade these guys with so I will just move them up or down.
Guys who sould be rated higher:
Jose Napoles
Eugene Hart
Micheal Spinks
Alfonso Zamora
Razor Ruddock
Ike Williams
Rodrigo Valdez
Guys who should be rated lower:
Bennie Briscoe
Max Schmeling
Kostya Tszyu
Jersey Joe Walcott
Luis Firpo
Antonio Esparragoza
I would also trade Salvador Sanchez for Floyd Patterson.
What are your thoughts on my picks and changes and what would you change personally about the list?
Naseem Hamed should not be near as high as he is rated.
Juan Domingo Roldan should be on this list also.
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 | Just an observation but didn't Ali KO the members of the Ring Magazine Top 100 greatest punchers list: Archie Moore, Cleveland Williams, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Bob Foster? If he was the greatest (or even one of the top few) of all time I think Muhammad Ali should have made the list somewhere, after all he KOed a half dozen people who did make the list.
That said, the Ring Mag. Top 100 is an opinion, and I would have switched Saddler and Ray Robinson's spots, ranking Ray higher. I also would have ranked Hearns, Duran and McClellan higher, there is no way you can claim Matthew Saad Muhammad was a better puncher than Duran. The 90-100 list are all questionable, as well as a couple others, but opinions are just that. Holyfield most certainly should have been rated higher than names like Satterfield, Jenkins, Martin and McGovern, I think based on his success at heavyweight Evander was superior to quite a few named above him, and no offense intended to Elmer Ray or George Godfrey fans, but I question their position as well.
Eder Jofre and Salvador Sanchez should have been rated higher than Naz, and I would have rated Tyson a lot lower than Ring did, I would have put Joe Frazier ahead of both Mike and Lennox.
I would have liked to see a couple of more modern fighters replace some of the old timers, Manny Pacquiao comes to mind as one who should have been included. Great question, I think we all have our own list of the top 100, and none of them would be the same. | |
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| Where is Wladimir and Vitali??
They do not even deserve to be included in the 100 greatest punchers of all time??
I am socked ,the bias seem to be bigger than i originally thought! | |
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| I don't agree with the rankings if they are supposed to be in order of their record at knocking people out.
And a few are in that should be out and a few were omitted that could be in. | |
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| I don't know where to start with this one and you do make some good points of guys who should be higher and lower on the list especially Zamora who was a knockout specialist to say the least. One of my big questions is just how did the experts find a way to leave one of the hardest punchers of them all p4p in Stanley Ketchel? I think Duran particularly the lightweight version, should be ranked higher and so should Wilfredo Gomez and Carlos Zarate. This would be my personal top 10. and thanks for the question:
1. Stanley Ketchel
2. Jimmy Wilde
3. Carlos Zarate
4. Wilfredo Gomez
5. Archie Moore
6. Bob Fitzsimmons
7. George Foreman
8. Julian Jackson
9. Rocky Marciano
10. Joe Louis | |
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