Past greats on pound-for-pound lists usually cite welterweight and middleweight champion “Sugar” Ray Robinson as their best fighter. His record of 174 wins, 19 losses, and 6 draws, with 109 stops doesn't tell the whole story. Because, like many great boxers, they “stayed in too long.”
Robinson was better at welterweight than middleweight. Starting at welterweight, he won his first 41 bouts before losing to future middleweight champion Jake “Bronx Bull” LaMotta in October 1942, 30-5-2. Three weeks after his first loss, he won against LaMotta. Their third meeting. LaMotta weighed about 16 pounds.
Robinson won the vacant welterweight title in December 1946 by defeating Tommy Bell 39-10-3 at Madison Square Garden.
He then defeated boxers like Kid Gavilan with a record of 53 wins, 6 losses, and 2 draws. He then defeated Steve Bellows 90-10-3. In a rematch of their previous tie, he defeated Jose Basola 77-14-6 in the Penn State middleweight title fight.
Robinson was 129-1-2 when he lost 40-2-1 to Randy Turpin in London, but lost to him two months later at Madison Square Garden in New York. When he lost to Paul Pender, his 35-5-2 record, you knew it was all over for him.
Second on the list is Henry “Murder Hank” Armstrong, who has a record of 149 wins, 21 losses, and 10 draws, winning the featherweight, welterweight, and lightweight divisions.
In the featherweight division, he defeated Petey Salon 107-22-13. Bernie Ross, welterweight, 74 wins, 3 losses, 3 draws. In the lightweight division, he defeated Lou Umbers with a score of 75 wins, 5 losses, and 7 draws.
No. 3 Muhammad “The Greatest” Ali, 56-5, 37 stops, is a three-time world heavyweight champion and former Olympic gold medalist.
4th place Joe “Brown Bomber” Lewis, 66-3, 52 stops. He had a record of 25 defenses as a heavyweight.
5th place Willie “Will O The Wisp” Pep, 229 wins, 11 losses, 1 draw, former world featherweight champion.
The sixth middleweight champion, Harry “Pittsburgh Windmill” Greb, is 108-9-3 with 49 stops. The only light heavyweight to win was future heavyweight champion Gene “The Fighting Marine” Tunney, who won 65 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw. Gleb also fought with one eye.
In seventh place is five-division world champion “Sugar” Ray Leonard with 36 wins, 3 losses, and 1 draw (25 losses). He defeated Thomas “Hitman” Hearns, Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran, “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, and Wilfred Benitez.
In 8th place is three-division champion Julio “JC” Cesar Chavez with a record of 107 wins, 6 losses, and 85 stops. He was 89-0-1 in his first loss to Frankie “The Surgeon” Randall.He avenged that loss in his next fight.
In ninth place is six-division world champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, who has 62 wins, 8 losses, and 2 draws, and has 39 stops. He defeated Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya and tied with Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whittaker, “Sugar” Shane Mosley, Tim Bradley Jr., Eric Morales, Ricky Hatton, and Miguel Cotto.
In 10th place is Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., 50-0 (27 stops). He had wins over Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, “Sugar” Shane Mosley, Ricky Hatton, and Miguel Cotto.
The current leading pound-for-pound boxer is “The Monster” Naoya Inoue, a five-division world champion and super bantamweight champion with a record of 26 wins and 0 losses (23 stops). Defeats Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire, Jason “Mayhem” Moloney, and Emmanuel Rodriguez.
In second place is three-division world champion and welterweight champion Terrence “Bud” Crawford, who has a record of 40-0 with 31 stops. He defeated Yuriorkis Gamboa, Ricky Burns, Thomas Dulorme, Shawn Porter, Kell Brook, and Amir Khan.
In third place is Saul “Canelo” Alvarez with 60 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws (39 losses). He has wins over Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, Jermell “Iron Man” Charlo, Julio “JC” Cesar Chavez, Miguel Cotto, Amir Khan, and Liam Smith.
In fourth place is Tyson “Gypsy King” Fury, 34-0-1 (24 stops). He has wins over Derek “War” Chisora and Dillian Whyte, and two wins over Deontay Wilder.
In fifth place is Oleksandr Usyk, 21-0 with 14 stoppages. He is the unified cruiser champion with two wins over Daniel “Dynamite” Dubois and two wins over Anthony “AJ” Joshua, Derek “War” Chisora, Marko Huck, Mairis Briedis, Murat Gassiev and Tony Bellew. Ta.
In sixth place is WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, who is 20-0 with 20 stoppages. He has wins over Callum Smith, Anthony Yarde, Joe Smith Jr. and Marcus Browne.
In seventh place is WBA and IBO light heavyweight champion Dmitriy Bivol, 22-0 (11 stops). He has wins over Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and Jean Pascal.
In 8th place is WBO Super Featherweight Champion Emmanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete, 38-1-1 (31 stops). He has wins over Oscar Valdez, Jowette Gonzalez and Isaac Dogboye.
In ninth place is IBF welterweight champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis, 31-0, 1 NC, 28 stops. He has wins over Sergei Lipinets, Tomas Dulorme, Kusio Clayton, Karen Chukajian and Roiman Villa.
In 10th place was David Benavidez with a record of 28-0 with 24 stops. He has wins over Caleb Plant, David Lemieux, and Ronald Ellis.
