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Boxing - Critical Appraisal
Best Pound-for-Pound Boxers of All Time (Yardbarker)
This list features the best pound-for-pound boxers of all time according to Yardbarker.
RANK | BOXER | WEIGHT CLASS | YEARS |
1 | Sugar Ray Robinson | Welterweight / Middleweight | 1940–1965 |
2 | Muhammad Ali | Heavyweight | 1960–1981 |
3 | Henry Armstrong | Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight | 1930–1945 |
4 | Harry Greb | Middleweight | 1913–1926 |
5 | Willie Pep | Featherweight | 1940–1966 |
6 | Roberto Duran | Lightweight / Welterweight / Middleweight | 1968–2001 |
7 | Joe Louis | Heavyweight | 1934–1951 |
8 | Benny Leonard | Lightweight | 1911–1932 |
9 | Sugar Ray Leonard | Welterweight / Light Middleweight / Middleweight | 1977–1997 |
10 | Marvin Hagler | Middleweight | 1973–1987 |
11 | Jack Johnson | Heavyweight | 1897–1938 |
12 | Sam Langford | Lightweight / Middleweight / Heavyweight | 1902–1926 |
13 | Manny Pacquiao | Flyweight / Bantamweight / Lightweight / Welterweight | 1995–2021 |
14 | Ezzard Charles | Heavyweight | 1940–1959 |
15 | Archie Moore | Light Heavyweight | 1935–1963 |
16 | Pernell Whitaker | Lightweight / Light Welterweight / Welterweight | 1984–2001 |
17 | Floyd Mayweather Jr. | Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Light Welterweight / Welterweight / Light Middleweight | 1996–2017 |
18 | Joe Gans | Lightweight | 1891–1908 |
19 | Barney Ross | Lightweight / Welterweight / Light Welterweight | 1922–1938 |
20 | Gene Tunney | Heavyweight | 1915–1930 |
21 | Jack Dempsey | Heavyweight | 1914–1927 |
22 | Julio Cesar Chavez | Lightweight / Light Welterweight / Welterweight | 1980–2005 |
23 | George Foreman | Heavyweight | 1969–1997 |
24 | Rocky Marciano | Heavyweight | 1947–1955 |
25 | Sandy Saddler | Featherweight | 1943–1956 |
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