ESPN top 50 Boxers

[sternroolz]

ESPN top 50 Boxers

I want to comment but I really don't know where to start. This list is really, really bad.

[Assani Fisher]

link not working for me

[Homer]

linky

[Homer]

Tyson = 50
Mayweather = 48

I stopped right there. Am I insane in thinking that's way, way ofF?

[rafiki]

Tyson 50 and Roy Jones Jr 46 ?

Damn I clearly know nothing about boxing, lol

[duracell]

I'm not going to claim to know a thing about boxing. I also haven't watched most of these guys fight, as I'm fairly young.

That said, I have no idea how Joe Frazier is that far down the list. I will admit, I get much of my boxing information from my father (who fought professionally for a few fights) who was a big Joe Frazier fan.

[SuperUberBob]

They got LaMotta way too high on that list. I wonder if his exposure through Raging Bull gave him an edge.

Marciano should be easily in the top 10, not 14th.

And I am very happy to see Tyson only ranked 50th. I was afraid he'd end up cracking the top ten. IMO, he doesn't even deserve to be on the list. Though his position in boxing history is highly debatable.

Jersey Joe Walcott is missing from this list as well. I feel that it is highly unlikely that he'd be in the top 10. But he should definitely be somewhere in the middle of that list.

So, by process of elimination, who's in the top 10?

The obvious are:

Muhammad Ali
Sugar Ray Robinson
Joe Louis
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Sonny Liston

Who else? Other names not yet on the list that are possibilities:

Lennox Lewis
Jersey Joe Walcott
Willie Pep
Floyd Patterson
Rocky Graziano
Max Baer
Max Schmeling
Jess Willard
John Sullivan

[Assani Fisher]

so we have to wait til tomorrom for the top 10?

[Ralph Wiggum]

lol, ESPN is jopke.

[sternroolz]

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Marciano should be easily in the top 10, not 14th.


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Absolutely. This one really stuck out.

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So, by process of elimination, who's in the top 10?

The obvious are:

Muhammad Ali
Sugar Ray Robinson
Joe Louis
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Sonny Liston

Who else? Other names not yet on the list that are possibilities:

Lennox Lewis
Jersey Joe Walcott
Willie Pep
Floyd Patterson
Rocky Graziano
Max Baer
Max Schmeling
Jess Willard
John Sullivan


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Except for Sullivan, any of those other guys in the top ten is a travesty I think.

I have no idea how monsters like Hagler, Hearns, Holmes, and Frazier are ranked so low. Hearns vs Hagler was like one of the greatest fights ever. The only time you see guys go at each other like that is in the movies.