Ring Magazine: The Greatest 20 Light-Heavyweights of All-Time

[Thread Stealer]

Per this 2002 issue. No active fighters, so Roy Jones is not listed.

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Archie Moore
3. Michael Spinks
4. Tommy Loughran
5. Bob Foster
6. Jimmy Bivins
7. Harold Johnson
8. Maxie Rosenbloom
9. Billy Conn
10. Matthew Saad Muhammad
11. Victor Galindez
12. Jack Dillon
13. Battling Levinsky
14. Joey Maxim
15. Dwight Muhammad Qawi
16. John Henry Lewis
17. Bob Fitzsimmons
18. Gene Tunney
19. Virgil Hill
20. Marvin Johnson

Honorable Mentions:

Pete Bereinbach
George Carpentier
Jack Delaney
Gus Lesnevich
Lloyd Marshall
Henry Maske
Freddie Mills
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Battling Siki
Prince Charles Williams

[Flabulous]

I'd put Jones in at 3rd.

[jrosales13]

I'd put Jones in at 3rd.

Really now?

[Wild Blue Yonda]

I know the history of the division is mighty deep, but Tunney at #18? Really!?

He is my vote for the best of the lot. I cannot see him outside the top-10, in all fairness.

Unrelated. One fella active at the time of issue, who has since retired, is Michael Moorer. He might sneak into the back-end of some peoples' top-20, though looking at the honourable mentions there, I doubt it.

[JAB5239]

I know the history of the division is mighty deep, but Tunney at #18? Really!?

He is my vote for the best of the lot. I cannot see him outside the top-10, in all fairness.

That was the first thing I noticed to and wondered of it was a fan poll. No Harry Greb? Saad Muhammad at 10? Strange list.

[mikeyh1015]

Wow.... Rjjr #1

[sonnyboyx2]

Gene Tunney 18 ?.... cannot possibly be correct

[Kid McCoy]

That was the first thing I noticed to and wondered of it was a fan poll. No Harry Greb? Saad Muhammad at 10? Strange list.

And Mills? Williams? Greb beat five men on that list (Loughran, Rosenbloom, Tunney, Dillon and Levinsky) and three others (Delaney, Carpentier, Siki) wouldn't face him. That's a better 175lb resume than many of those listed. At least they got #1 right.

[bklynboy]

I know the history of the division is mighty deep, but Tunney at #18? Really!?

He is my vote for the best of the lot. I cannot see him outside the top-10, in all fairness.

Unrelated. One fella active at the time of issue, who has since retired, is Michael Moorer. He might sneak into the back-end of some peoples' top-20, though looking at the honourable mentions there, I doubt it.

I can't see Tunney being out of the TOP 5. He's the only Light Heavy that ever made a real mark on the heavyweight division. I think the following are absolutely in the TOP 5. The only question is who else get's included.

Gene Tunney (in chronological order)
Archie Moore
Ezzard Charles
Michael Spinks

[NChristo]

Quite an odd list.