Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years
In 2002, Ring Magazine published a list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years in boxing, as voted by the magazine's writers.
Various criteria were used for the voting: what percentage of fights by each boxer resulted as knockout wins, how many knockouts and knockout streaks each boxer had, what important rivals he knocked out during his career, and who he couldn't knock out.
List of boxing's all time best fighters, as deemed by Ring's writers:
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Henry Armstrong
- Muhammad Ali
- Joe Louis
- Roberto Duran
- Willie Pep
- Harry Greb
- Benny Leonard
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- Pernell Whitaker
- Carlos Monzon
- Rocky Marciano
- Ezzard Charles
- Archie Moore
- Sandy Saddler
- Jack Dempsey
- Marvin Hagler
- Julio César Chávez
- Eder Jofre
- Alexis Arguello
- Barney Ross
- Evander Holyfield
- Ike Williams
- Salvador Sanchez
- George Foreman
- Kid Gavilan
- Larry Holmes
- Mickey Walker
- Ruben Olivares
- Gene Tunney
- [...] Tiger
- Fighting Harada
- Emile Griffith
- Tony Canzoneri
- Aaron Pryor
- Pascual Perez
- Miguel Canto
- Manuel Ortiz
- Charley Burley
- Carmen Basilio
- Michael Spinks
- Joe Frazier
- Khaosai Galaxy
- Roy Jones, Jr.
- Tiger Flowers
- Panama Al Brown
- Kid Chocolate
- Joe Brown
- Tommy Loughran
- Bernard Hopkins
- Felix Trinidad
- Jake LaMotta
- Lennox Lewis
- Wilfredo Gómez
- Bob Foster
- Jose Napoles
- Billy Conn
- Jimmy McLarnin
- Pancho Villa
- Carlos Ortiz
- Bob Montgomery
- Freddie Miller
- Benny Lynch
- Beau Jack
- Azumah Nelson
- Eusebio Pedroza
- Thomas Hearns
- Wilfred Benitez
- Antonio Cervantes
- Ricardo Lopez
- Sonny Liston
- Mike Tyson
- Vicente Saldivar
- Gene Fullmer
- Oscar de la Hoya
- Carlos Zarate
- Marcel Cerdan
- Flash Elorde
- Mike McCallum
- Harold Johnson