What would be your top 10 welterweights of all time ?

[Dempsey19]

Mine Would be-

1. SRR
2. Hearns
3. SRL
4. Duran
5. Mayweather
6. Armstrong
7. Walcott
8. Gavilan
9. Pacquaio
10. Trinidad

[SheenLantern]

Leonard

Hearns

Mayweather

Pacquiao

Duran

Whitaker

De La Hoya

Mosley

Benitez

Trinidad

[Blue54]

1 SRR
2 Floyd Mayweather
3 Sugar Ray Leonard
4 Henry Armstrong
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Jose Napoles
7 Kid Gavilian
8 Emile Griffith
9 Barney Ross
10 Manny Pacquiao

Honerable mentions
Mickey Walker
Carmen Basilio
Barbados Joe Wallcott
Jimmy mclarnin
Jack Britton

[turnedup]

1 SRR
2 Floyd Mayweather
3 Sugar Ray Leonard
4 Henry Armstrong
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Jose Napoles
7 Kid Gavilian
8 Emile Griffith
9 Barney Ross
10 Manny Pacquiao

Honerable mentions
Mickey Walker
Carmen Basilio
Barbados Joe Wallcott
Jimmy mclarnin
Jack Britton

People sleep on Emile Griffith...happy to see someone mention him. You gotta know your fight game even mention him. Rest In Power EG

[Zaryu]

Honestly, I don't know enough (historically speaking) about it to come up with my own list. However, I like the names being mentioned.

For me a quick top 3 would be:

SRR
SRL
Hearns

[chrisJS]

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Jose Napoles
5. Kid Gavilan
6. Jack Britton
7. Joe Walcott
8. Mickey Walker
9. Emile Griffith
10. Luis Rodriguez

Honorable mentions (relative order) Tommy Hearns, Barney Ross, Jimmy McLarnin, Tommy Ryan, Ted Lewis, Felix Trinidad, Pernell Whitaker, Floyd Mayweather

[QueensburyRules]

- -Welts may be by eye test the most competitive of all divisions, so this a hard task.

No prob with Robby número uno, but many below him could potentially beat him.

Mind yer Ps and Qs, and in Valhalla you'll be able to see this tourney, but for now for me, more cogitation beckons.

[Rusty Tromboni]

Robinson
Leonard
Britton
Walker
Hearns
Gavilan
Napoles
Griffith
Mayweather
Ross


Something like that...


1) I have trouble granking Britton. He could be the best for all we know. I doubt that based on reports that he struggled w/ benny Leonard. But really w/o footage of him, we don't know how good he was. he has the best time on top, though, of anyone short of Robinson.

2) Ranking Walker and Hearns was tough as they clearly had nights where they were super dangerous fighters, but this really wasn't their best division; they matured into much better Middleweights. Other fighters had much longer and more consistent tenure.

[Rusty Tromboni]

1 SRR
2 Floyd Mayweather
3 Sugar Ray Leonard
4 Henry Armstrong
5 Thomas Hearns
6 Jose Napoles
7 Kid Gavilian
8 Emile Griffith
9 Barney Ross
10 Manny Pacquiao

Honerable mentions
Mickey Walker
Carmen Basilio
Barbados Joe Wallcott
Jimmy mclarnin
Jack Britton

LOL, God no.

No way Mayweather was the best Ww. I agree, in generations past he would have been a Ww. Pre-1975, people would've balked at the idea of Mayweather fighting anywhere south of Welterweight.

But he did nothing at Ww that warrants inclusion among the division's absolute best. I kinda throw him a bone because I think he fairs very, very well H2H against a lot of fighters. But he was so coddled even in his own era, it's hard to see him adjusting to the rules and conditions of generations past.

And Armstrong isn't even top 15, let alone top 10.

[Rusty Tromboni]

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Henry Armstrong
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Jose Napoles
5. Kid Gavilan
6. Jack Britton
7. Joe Walcott
8. Mickey Walker
9. Emile Griffith
10. Luis Rodriguez

Honorable mentions (relative order) Tommy Hearns, Barney Ross, Jimmy McLarnin, Tommy Ryan, Ted Lewis, Felix Trinidad, Pernell Whitaker, Floyd Mayweather

henry Armstrong number 2!?!?!?

Whodid he beat to even make the top 10? A horribly faded Ross is the only name of merit on his record. Duran has a faaaar superior Ww legacy.