The biggest box-office attraction of his time, Mayweather won major titles in five weight classes, partially unifying welterweight and junior middleweight, without a defeat over nearly 20 years as a pro. This has been a pleasure to put together. 10) 2 contenders, and bested No. Web26 Eder Jofre. Oh my god! If the featherweight won, 118 would be divided by 126 with the win worth 8.42 points for the featherweight and the loss meaning a deduction of 2.81 points for the bantamweight. Of the 25 fighters identified with between 20 and 29 wins against ranked foes, Mayweather finished the highest. T o celebrate its centenary, boxing magazine The Ring has ranked the Cecilia Braekhaus. Alis last win would come in avenging a stunning upset loss to Leon Spinks, retiring as champion before an ill-fated comeback. Mayweather was 8-0 against ranked welterweights, including a feud-settling decision over his most prominent contemporary in Manny Pacquiao to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO belts. Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather, Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao Genaro Hernandez RTD 8 (1) 130 Holiday 1998, Gregorio Vargas UD 12 (10) 130 06/00, Diego Corrales TKO 10 (1) 130 05/01, Jose Luis Castillo UD 12* (1) 135 08/02, Jose Luis Castillo UD 12 (1) 135 02/03, DeMarcus Corley UD 12 (5+) 140 09/04, Carlos Baldomir UD 12* (C) 147 02/07, Oscar De La Hoya SD 12 (5+) 154 07/07, Juan Manuel Marquez UD 12 (C) 135 11/09, Robert Guerrero UD 12* (3) 147 07/13, Canelo Alvarez MD 12* (C) 154 11/13, Career Record: 85-24-2, 1 No Contest (23 KOs, 2 KOBY), First Ring Ranking: #10 Welterweight (May 1960), Last Ring Ranking: #8 Middleweight (April 1976), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 36-19-2 (6 KOs, 2 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Welterweight (1961, 62-63, 63-66), Middleweight (1966-67, 67-68). 1-contender rankings at junior featherweight and welterweight along with a No. Sasakul was the man who beat the man dating back to Miguel Canto. Louis knocked out seven of them. 1-ranked fighter became the 11-point win, deduction for an unranked loss was eleven points, and unranked draws were a 5.5-point deduction. In other words, Angott was The Rings No. ROCKY MARCIANO In a career that lasted 8 years from 1947 to 1955, Marciano left quite a mark on boxing history. Armstrong retired in 1946 with a record of 151-21-9 with 101 knockouts. After representing Jamaica at the 1976 Olympics, the Body Snatcher would win titles at Jr. middleweight, middleweight, and light heavyweight. WebTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (50-41) #50 During that five-year period, he was stripped of his boxing titles and banned from fighting. Mayweather was Rings 1998 and 2007 Fighter of the Year. 1 contender for only an issue before snagging his first title from Benny Paret. Tarver was inconsistent from there, but managed impressive performances to recapture the Ring crown after losing it to Glen Johnson and won another IBF belt later against Clinton Woods. The most formidable challenger in the war years may have been Jimmy Bivins. Group three was derived from fighters who scored in the top 75 of any of the three scoring categories or whose final scoring average was higher than what would otherwise be the bottom ten of the top 100 (70-100). A win over the champion of ones weight class, in a title or non-title fight, was worth 11 points, a No. The following year, he bulked up to fight for and win the world welterweight title, then slimmed down and captured the world lightweight belt. (1-64). Griffiths 1962 win over Ted Wright crowned the first junior middleweight titlist (at least in Austria, where the bout took place, and other parts of Europe), though the WBA wouldnt recognize the title on a global scale until soon after when Moyer defeated Joey Giambra. The first two wins against Maxim came in 1942 when Maxim was unranked and often competing at heavyweight. Over time, these results will continue to change. Lesnevich also posted a win in 1937 over Atilio Sabatino; Sabatino would go on to be ranked for chunks of time at middleweight between 1938 and 1940. a champion and the top 10 contenders). Photo: The Ring archive. The Brooklyn bantamweight spent more than a decade in or near the top ten after winning bronze at the 1932 Olympics. With Berbick, Ali can be said to have faced ranked opponents in 37 of 61 fights, a staggering 61 percent of his total professional starts. Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", Louis' However, for a lengthy period of time the February, and later March, issue of the magazine would only feature the annual ratings for the year. 7. Robinson retired 25 years later with a record of 175-19 and 110 knockouts.. 1 contender spot at middleweight in the October-December 1942 issues before assuming the No. Pep, who went pro in 1940, fought in an era when matches were scheduled far more often than today. Griffith was Rings 1964 Fighter of the Year. New Yorks Upstate Onion Farmer won three world titles as arguably the most exciting fighter of his time, competing in five consecutive Ring Magazine fights of the year from 1955-59. 1 contender was worth 10, etc. Click here to read the introduction to the rankings feature, Click here to purchase a copy of the Collectors Issue. Mayweathers most impressive run may have come in his first weight class with five wins over ranked opposition in title fights at junior lightweight. Charley Retzlaff KO 1 (4) Hvy 03/36, Max Schmeling KO by 12 (2) Hvy 08/36, John Henry Lewis KO 1 (C-) 175 03/39, Johnny Paycheck TKO 2 (5) Hvy 05/40, Jersey Joe Walcott SD 15 (1) Hvy 01/48, Jersey Joe Walcott KO 11 (1) Hvy 08/48, Rocky Marciano TKO by 8 (3) Hvy 12/51, Career Record: 174-19-6, 2 No Contests (109 KOs, 1 KOBY), First Ring Ranking: #7 Lightweight (May 1941), Last Ring Ranking: #8 Middleweight (July 1962), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 41-10-3 (17 KOs, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Welterweight (1946-51), Middleweight (1951, 51-52, 55-57, 57, 58-60). All rights reserved. Scoring for total points and peak points relied on a base 11-point scale (i.e. He would never be unknown by anyone again. He would remain recognized as Rings champion until his retirement following the only knockout loss of his career to heavyweight champion Joe Louis. Thought was given to leaving the results as they were for this online edition but it wouldnt have followed the methodology employed and wouldnt have given readers the best findings possible as they are now. Charles never faced Mills, but against the other three his record was 9-0. 1 contender, before winning a title he would hold in his first reign for almost six years. Note: With some fighters of the more-distant past, there is often disagreement about their final records. Fighters were then given a ranking in each scoring category: overall total, peak score (the highest point their points for wins and losses reached), and ranked wins. Moores first win over Jack Chase came when Chase was unranked, though Chases name comes up often from there. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. George Foreman Scoring a pair of second-round TKOs of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton are a sample size of how terrifying Foreman was in 1 contender at heavyweight from the July 1955-January 1957 issues, though boxings highest honor eluded him. Pep was Rings 1945 Fighter of the Year. Emile Griffith. During his career, went 66-3 with 52 knockouts. Kocsis had been ranked previously at flyweight and bantamweight, the latter as late as 1932. Over the next several days, RingTV.com will present Rolds list in its entirety, beginning with Nos. Everyone who finished in the top 100 of preliminary research for those three categories was moved into a final pool of what came out to 150 fighters. Benitez would be ranked number one or two at Jr. middleweight well into 1984. 34 Marcel Cerdan. Lesnevich battled out of New Jersey, staying in the light heavyweight rankings for all but two issues from his debut in the top ten until exiting for the heavyweight ranks in 1949. The stretch to Marciano was one of Moores most impressive. George Costner was not ranked in a Ring top 10 when Robinson first beat him, neither was Artie Levine or Carl Bobo Olson the first two times the future middleweight champ lost to Robinson, but all three would become fixtures of the ratings. Calzaghe rose to number one for the first time in the September 1999 issue and fell no lower than fourth until holding the number one spot from the November 2003 issue until being crowned champion after his win over Jeff Lacy. 50. 2023 RING TV LIVE. Duran retired with a record of 103-16 with 70 knockouts. Tyson even made a comeback in 2021 and had an exhibition fight against Roy Jones Junior. Losses to unranked opponents drew a universal 12-point deduction. He also won a gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. A 1963 win over ranked welterweight Ralph Dupas was outside the study scope. Missing Quality: Between wins over Diego Corrales and Jesus Chavez in a stellar 2001 campaign, Mayweather defeated Carlos Hernandez, who was unranked by The Ring at the time. Moore suffered defeats to Teddy Yarosz and Shorty Hogue as well before breaking through at middleweight with a win over Ron Richards. During his career, he fought 241 bouts, a remarkably high number by modern standards. Returning to the ring in 1955, Robinson was never quite as consistent again but still added critical victories against Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio to further cement his legend. He stood as number one contender after his first loss to Dick Tiger but slipped from the post after the rematch and fought only twice more in his career. Moore had slipped from the middleweight top 10 after a knockout loss to Eddie Booker. Basilios defeats in the second Fullmer fight, and versus Pender, came after Basilios final Ring ranking and didnt work against him here. 1 contender to champion Freddie Red Cochrane. The Yonker fight was for an interim WBC belt and set up McCallums shot at Jeff Harding to win the title outright. WebThe International Boxing Research Organization rates Foreman as the eighth greatest heavyweight of all time. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Louis might have been unranked when Charles defeated him, but Louis would immediately return to the top 10 after the loss and added two more top 10 wins before his career was complete. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. A native of Panama, Duran is considered to be the best lightweight fighter in modern boxing history. To be the best, you have to beat the best. First Ring Ranking: #6 Light Heavyweight (November 1936), Last Ring Ranking: #2 Light Heavyweight (July 1949), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 17-13-3 (8 KO, 5 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Light Heavyweight (1941-48). For now, thank you again for taking the time to read and thank you to the editors at The Ring for their support of this project. Fights in italics denote results using rankings taken from KO Magazine. Who is the greatest boxing athlete of all time?Muhammad Ali Throughout his entire career, he only lost one fight by knockout. Julio Cesar Chavez professional record of 107-6-2 with 88 knockouts.Floyd Mayweather 43-0 professional record, with 26 knockouts.Sugar Ray Robinson 175-19-6 record, with 109 knockouts.Mike Tyson 44 of his 50 victories were by knockout. 1 contender spot at middleweight from the November 1949 issue until he won his first of five middleweight crowns in the storied St. Valentines Day Massacre versus Jake LaMotta. His back-to-back middleweight title wars with Carmen Basilio won Rings 1957 and 1958 Fight-of-the-Year award. Everyone who finished in the top 100 of preliminary research for those three categories was moved into a final pool of what came out to 150 fighters. Saddler ended a 73-fight unbeaten streak. We have used BoxRec.com as our source. He entered the heavyweight ratings at No. Griffiths career was marked by several multi-fight rivalries. Along with his five world title wins, Griffith also posted wins over No. Basilio was ranked fourth when he unsuccessfully challenged Kid Gavilan for the welterweight title. Missing Quality: Louis could easily have been historys first two-time heavyweight king. 32 Packey McFarland. Peter Manfredo TKO 3 (10) 168 07/07, Bernard Hopkins SD 12* (C+) 175 07/08, First Ring Ranking: World Jr. Welterweight Champion (May 1976), Last Ring Ranking: #8 Middleweight (April 1986), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 12-5-1 (5 KO, 3 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Jr. Welterweight (1976-79), Welterweight (1979), Wilfredo Benitez on the April 1982 cover of The Ring Magazine. One of boxings great, ageless wonders, the Old Mongoose tackled contenders from middleweight to heavyweight for 17 years before finally getting a crack at a world title. Were here! Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight champion for the inaugural rankings in 1925 and was rated fourth. Photo: The Ring Magazine/ Getty Images. Harry Greb (June 6, 1894Oct. Charles had won the NBAs recognition as champion in June 1949 following his first win over Walcott. Twelve of those 23 wins came against men The Ring recognized in their division as champion, No. At the time of his first retirement in 1952, Robinsons career record stood at 132-3-2 with no losses versus welterweights, unbeaten streaks of 40 and then 91 contests, and a record against champions and ranked opposition from lightweight to light heavyweight of 35-3-2. In three straight fights, Moore knocked out longtime rival and leading contender Harold Johnson, jumped up to decision Valdez at heavyweight and then returned to light heavyweight to knock out reigning middleweight champion Bobo Olson. Wins and losses to opponents in higher and lower divisions were included. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, Joe Louis is one of Thanks for signing up! 1 contender in their division. Bivins just missed being another contender on the ledger for Louis here. Joe Louis; Sam Langford; Jimmy Wilde; Archie Moore; Sandy Saddler; Stanley Ketchel; Jack Dempsey; Bob Fitzsimmons; George Foreman; Earnie Shavers; Sugar Ray Robinson; Ruben Olivares; Wilfredo Gomez; Rocky Marciano; Sonny Liston; Mike Tyson; Bob Following the loss, he was ranked first or second in every issue until defeating DeMarco for his first of two welterweight crowns. Benitez was unranked when he defeated Antonio Cervantes for his first title, spending his entire tenure in The Rings rankings at Jr. welterweight as champion. The final average score was used to order the fighters in each group for those who made the top 100. Basilio also had a win that didnt count toward him versus then-10th ranked welterweight Don Jordan in 1961. Group one: anyone who finished in the top 100 of all three scoring categories or whose scoring average was higher than those who did. McCallum won the vacant WBA belt versus Sean Mannion in 1984, rose to number one in Rings rankings in the September 1984 edition, and stayed there almost a year. It references the cover story to the February 2022 issue of The Ring, which celebrated the magazines 100 years of publication. Given the method used to process the findings of the study, ranking fighters in three categories based on their official in-ring results, every change can have a butterfly effect. That effort has continued since initial publication, revising and updating the findings for new results since November 2021 and seeking to correct any omissions or errors found since the study was first submitted. Davis was not ranked in the August issue and the result of the fight was reported in the September issue, so it was not recorded as a ranked win. 8. A 1956 silver medalist at light middleweight for the United States, Torres fought most of his first six years at middleweight, peaking at a number six ranking. He was 3-0 against ranked junior middleweights, including handing Canelo Alvarez his first and to date only loss. McCallum was ranked number one at middleweight prior to the Toney rematch and again at light heavyweight prior to losing the WBC title to Fabrice Tiozzo. McCallum was forced to vacate prior to a planned unification with IBF titlist James Toney. As an interesting footnote, a fight that has gained fame over time came at a time when Moore was unranked: his defeat at the hands of Charley Burley. Max Baer, Max Schmeling, James J. Braddock and Jersey Joe Walcott all felt Louis wrath. Wilsons final Ring ranking, ninth at featherweight, came in the February 1946 issue. Digging into pro boxing in 1998, Ann boasts one of the most successful careers, with a 24-1-1 record. In a pro career that began in 1968 and lasted until 2001, he won titles in four different divisions: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight, and middleweight. Missing Quality: Mannion was unranked when McCallum defeated him and never achieved a ranking in The Ring. Missing Quality: Basilio took a hard road to contention, picking up some losses along the way including decision defeats to a ranked Chuck Davey and Bill Graham. Eight of the nine title defenses in Alis first reign, including a rematch knockout of Liston, stoppage of former two-time champion Floyd Patterson and reunification win against WBA titlist Ernie Terrell, were against Ring-ranked contenders. Writing in the July 1931 issue of The Ring, editor Nat Fleischers position came down to the scales, specifically that Berg could not lose his junior-welter crown when compelled to enter the ring at the lightweight limit., Ignacio Fernandez W 10 (2-) 126 07/29, Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (8+) 140 11/29], Stanislaus Loayza UD 10 (4+) 140 04/30, Harry Dublinsky SD 10 (7) 135 07/32], Harry Dublinsky L 10 (3+) 147 10/34, Harry Dublinsky W 10 (1+) 147 11/34, Jimmy McLarnin UD 10 (1+) 147 06/36, First Ring Ranking: #9 Heavyweight (March 1962), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Heavyweight (November 1980), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 32-4 (20 KOs, 1 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Heavyweight (1964-70, 74-78, 78). Draw 6 (10) 122 02/02, Marco Antonio Barrera TKO 11* (C) 126 03/04, Juan Manuel Marquez D 12 (1) 126 09/04, Erik Morales L12 (2+) 130 Vol. 28 Jack Britton. WebHe is a two-time heavyweight world champion, and also held the unified WBA, WBC, If the featherweight won, 118 would be divided by 126 with the win worth 8.42 points for the featherweight and the loss meaning a deduction of 2.81 points for the bantamweight. Along with Ring Magazine titles at featherweight, junior lightweight and junior welterweight, Pacquiao also achieved No. Pacquiao couldnt solve the riddle of Mayweather in the richest fight of all time, but several multi-fight rivalries magnified the greatness of Pacquiao. The solution was to include all results from 1924 in evaluating 1925 and then applying six-month increments with spare exception near mid-year dates until the debut of monthly rankings; i.e. In 2005, Joe Louis was named the greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. A loss to the champion was a one-point deduction sliding to 11 for a loss to the No. Missing Quality: A bout with Lateef Kayode result was initially a draw but changed to a No Contest when Tarver tested positive for a banned substance. 1-ranked heavyweight Nino Valdez to set up an ill-fated shot at Rocky Marciano. A 1938 win over Lou Brouillard missed credit by a single issue. From February 1946 to losing the heavyweight title to Jersey Joe Walcott in July 1951, Charles went 39-1 overall with a 20-1 mark against opponents ranked at light heavyweight and heavyweight. Saddler and Pep would face off one more time, Pep losing the series to his archrival 3-1 with all three losses inside the distance. Anton Christoforidis TKO 3 (2+) 175 02/42, Charley Burley UD 10 (3-) 147 07/42, Charley Burley UD 10 (4-) 147 08/42, Booker Beckwith KO 9 (3+) 175 09/42, Jimmy Bivins L 10 (1/4+) 175/Hvy 02/43, Lloyd Marshall TKO by 8 (4) 175 05/43, Oakland Billy Smith UD 10 (9) 175 11/46, Fitzie Fitzpatrick TKO 4 (9+) Hvy 01/48, Jersey Joe Walcott UD 15 (2) Hvy 08/49, Jersey Joe Walcott UD 15 (6) Hvy 04/51, Joey Maxim UD 15 (C-/3) 175/Hvy 07/51, Jersey Joe Walcott KO by 7* (2) Hvy 08/51, Jersey Joe Walcott L 15 (C) Hvy 07/52, Tommy Harrison TKO 9 (5-) 175 03/53, Rocky Marciano KO by 8 (C) Hvy 10/54, John Holman TKO by 9 (UR) Hvy 06/55, Young Jack Johnson TKO by 6 (UR) Hvy 02/56, First Ring Ranking: #9 Featherweight (August 1942), Last Ring Ranking: #10 Featherweight (February 1959), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 29-10-1 (7 KOs, 6 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Featherweight (1942-48, 49-50). Missing Quality: Richie Woodhall fell out of the top ten just a few months before a loss to Calzaghe in 2000 but had been a titlist in the class just two fights prior. 100-91, counting down by sets of 10 to the top 10 rated fighters. Those were treated as that months rankings and, if needed, were reordered as champion and top 10 to maintain consistency. Louis reached No. (Getty Images). An illustrated portrait of Ezzard Charles graces the December 1950 issue of The Ring. And the final part of this series (originally published in the February 2022 issue of The Ring) makes its RingTV.com debut on the 100th birthday of the venerable boxing magazine. Digging into pro boxing in 1998, Ann boasts one of the most successful For the 1925 rankings, and the period when Ring didnt recognize single champions from 1989 to 2001, only 10 fighters per weight class were ranked. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. In nine fights against the Mexican trio of Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao was an impressive 6-2-1 and rebounded from a devastating knockout loss to Marquez in the last of those fights to add seven more wins over ranked opponents before what appears to be his farewell loss to Yordenis Ugas. Twenty-seven of those wins came against ranked opposition after Moore entered the rankings for the first time. The first example from the Sugar Ray Robinson section: Opponents name and fight result (Ring ranking at the time of the bout) weight class cover date. Some other small corrections have been made to results and summaries but they didnt change the final results. The second Wilson win came shortly after that. Of his 40 wins against ranked opposition, 11 were against reigning champions or fighters ranked No. Rankings from 1925-1928 had no monthly movement. He was a Ring-rated fighter from bantamweight to lightweight. 1 contender spot at middleweight just once, in the March 1943 issue. His 1935 win over Sixto Escobar earned Salica the NBAs bantamweight crown and Salica regained the honors in 1940 with a win over Georgie Pace. He came out ahead 2-1 in a fateful rivalry with Paret, narrowly edged Luis Rodriguez 3-1 over four fights and pounded past Denny Moyer in two of their three contests. Kane and LaMotta were each missing a result. Mario Veit was unranked prior to two title challenges of Calzaghe but would crack the top ten briefly in 2007. The first African-American light heavyweight king, Lewis rose to number one for the first time with a non-title victory of Maxie Rosenbloom, avenging a loss in the first of their five fights. Above welterweight, Nino Benvenuti won their series 2-1. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Emile Griffith graces the cover of the March 1965 issue of The Ring. 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