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Boxing - Critical Appraisal
Best Pound-for-Pound Boxers of All Time (GiveMeSport)
This list features the best pound-for-pound boxers of all time according to Give Me Sport.
RANK | BOXER | WEIGHT CLASS | YEARS |
1 | Muhammad Ali | Heavyweight | 1960–1981 |
2 | Sugar Ray Robinson | Welterweight / Middleweight | 1940–1965 |
3 | Floyd Mayweather Jr. | Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight | 1996–2017 |
4 | Joe Louis | Heavyweight | 1934–1951 |
5 | Manny Pacquiao | Flyweight / Lightweight / Welterweight | 1995–2021 |
6 | Henry Armstrong | Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight | 1931–1945 |
7 | Roberto Duran | Lightweight / Welterweight / Middleweight | 1968–2001 |
8 | Sugar Ray Leonard | Welterweight / Middleweight | 1977–1997 |
9 | Oleksandr Usyk | Cruiserweight / Heavyweight | 2013–present |
10 | Mike Tyson | Heavyweight | 1985–2005 |
11 | Pernell Whitaker | Lightweight / Welterweight | 1984–2001 |
12 | Archie Moore | Light Heavyweight | 1935–1963 |
13 | Julio Cesar Chavez | Lightweight / Light Welterweight | 1980–2005 |
14 | Rocky Marciano | Heavyweight | 1947–1955 |
15 | Bernard Hopkins | Middleweight / Light Heavyweight | 1988–2016 |
16 | Evander Holyfield | Cruiserweight / Heavyweight | 1984–2011 |
17 | Roy Jones Jr. | Middleweight / Light Heavyweight | 1989–2018 |
18 | Lennox Lewis | Heavyweight | 1989–2003 |
19 | Marvin Hagler | Middleweight | 1973–1987 |
20 | Tony Canzoneri | Lightweight / Welterweight | 1925–1939 |
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