He only lost once; and that was to all-time-top 5'er Harry Greb. True, Greb was a natural middle and Tunney was a natural 175'r; but he was the prototype for a Billy Conn/Muhammad Ali mobile boxer puncher.
And, his upset over the seemingly invincible Jack Dempsey really showcased his skill set, especially considering the wide margins of victory.
Its so hard to make one of these lists, just because their is so many great fighters that you could make a case for especially 8-20..
Mine in a kinda sorta order at least in the beginning
1. SRR
2. Ali
3. Armstrong
4. Louis
5. bennny leonard
6. SRL
7. langford
8. greb
9. Pep
10. pernell
11. duran
12. walker
13. ike williams
14. chavez
15. jack johnson
Cant really decide on 16-20,,,, very hard to nail it down,,,,, but i think the guys i mentioned are locks for me at least,,, once you get past them,, it gets really hard to decide amongst guys,,
and i probably left someone obvious off the list,,, sorry this was just off the top of my head,,,
I normally only do top 10's, mainly because I'm lazy. But given that I have extra time on my hands today, I'll list the top 20, with one caveat: I'll only rank my top 10.
So did i,,, i would put him in my top 20,,, and ezzard charles and archie moore have to get some consideration,,, but that leaves me with 2 open spots,,,,
This stuff is so hard to do
Its so hard to make one of these lists, just because their is so many great fighters that you could make a case for especially 8-20..
Mine in a kinda sorta order at least in the beginning
1. SRR
2. Ali
3. Armstrong
4. Louis
5. bennny leonard
6. SRL
7. langford
8. greb
9. Pep
10. pernell
11. duran
12. walker
13. ike williams
14. chavez
15. jack johnson
Cant really decide on 16-20,,,, very hard to nail it down,,,,, but i think the guys i mentioned are locks for me at least,,, once you get past them,, it gets really hard to decide amongst guys,,
and i probably left someone obvious off the list,,, sorry this was just off the top of my head,,,
How can you leave out Ezzard Charles? Chavez and Johnson are not better than Charles.
I have never done this so in no real order and I might end up over or under a few and only listing fighters I have seen footage of
Ali
SRR
Duran
louis
pep
SRL
Sweet Pea
Hagler
charles
moore
most of the greats I have not seen footage of and I am reluctant to put most modern fighters on the list because I would be shunned for putting them on and leaving these greats off I have never seen but SRL Hagler and Pernell Whitaker I would have on here regardless of how many other greats I had seen they belong and thus they are there
Sal Sanchez
Azumah Nelson
Vincente Saldivar
Hilario Zapata
JCC
berto Roman
Finito Lopez
are among the ones with my limited knowledge of the greats would make the list and would possibly be offset by more deserving fighters had I seen them fight still only seventeen and in no order I guess I did not add much but there you go
I'm not a fan of making list like these, but i'll try to drop one. I'll just order a few of them, otherwise i'll be here all day,
1 .Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Joe Louis
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Sam Langford
that's as far as i can go on numbers
Harry Greb
Ezzard Charles
Roberto Duran
Archie Moore
Sugar Ray Leonard
Julio Cesar Chavez
Henry Armstrong
Carlos Monzon
Michael Spinks
Pernell Whitaker
Benny Leonard
George Foreman
Marvin Hagler
Roy Jones Jr.
Willie Pep
Mickey Walker
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