Greatest Fighters by Decade.

[TheTartanLegend]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

[Spartacus Sully]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

id go with sayers over morrissey

[check hook]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

pretty damn good!

[JDezi4]

I'd put Leonard 70s and Tyson 80s

[SBleeder]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

What's your criteria? You do have a lot of heavyweights...

For instance, Dempsey was certainly a bigger celebrity than a guy like Harry Greb, but I'd rank Greb higher than Dempsey in terms of ability and resume. I'd put Henry Armstrong in the 1930s over Joe Louis, again, if we're talking about ability and not celebrity. Ditto for Pernell Whitaker as figher of the 80s over Leonard.

[1SILVA]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

Well done. It's hard to argue with most of your choices.

[BigStereotype]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

Pretty good! Couple of changes I'd make, but that's to be expected - Ray Robinson in the 40's and 50's and Pacquiao over Mayweather, but good list.

[mrboxer]

I probably could've gone all the way back to Jack Broughton based on english bare knuckle champions. Tell me how i did..

1790s- Daniel Mendoza
1800s- Jem Belcher
1810s- Tom Cribb
1820s- Tom Hickman
1830s- Jem Ward
1840s- Tom Hyer
1850s- John Morrissey
1860s- John C. Heenan
1870s- Jem Mace
1880s- John L. Sullivan
1890s- Jim Jeffries
1900s- Jack Johnson
1910s- Jimmy Wilde
1920s- Jack Dempsey
1930s- Joe Louis
1940s- Ray Robinson
1950s- Rocky Marciano
1960s- Muhammad Ali
1970s- Roberto Duran
1980s- Ray Leonard
1990s- Roy Jones Jr
2000s- Floyd Mayweather Jr

the only fighter i would agree with you is ali,the group from the 1870s and down i have never heard of them,and duran the best of the 70s you must be kidding,ali was the best of the 70s

[SBleeder]

the only fighter i would agree with you is ali,the group from the 1870s and down i have never heard of them

Perhaps that's a result of lack of boxing knowledge.

[mrboxer]

Perhaps that's a result of lack of boxing knowledge.

have boxing knowledge,i am not going to talk about fighters from the old days that is based on heresay,fighters of the fifties and down are comical imagine fighters fronm the 1800s