Though the fighter lost to the first two of those opponents, he bested Duran to defend his WBC junior middleweight title.

Hearns was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in In January , Walker became the lightest man to ever challenge for the light heavyweight title.

At the time, he weighed less than pounds. He often faced stiff competition, beating fighters like Jack Britton and Tiger Flowers.

The boxer made nine title defenses throughout his career, despite only holding two belts. Many boxing historians and publications have placed him among their best middleweights of all-time.

He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a first-class member in Moore won the bout and became a champion.

He fought an additional 52 bouts after becoming champion and lost just four of them. As of , Moore remains the oldest world champion in history at 48 years, 59 days old when he last held the belt.

After he retired from boxing, Moore spent a brief stint as a trainer. A tall, skinny featherweight, Sandy Saddler was one of the most feared punchers in boxing history.

Saddler won the featherweight world championship twice. He also held the super featherweight title. Throughout his year career, the boxer scored knockouts.

Saddler was only knocked out once, in his second professional fight. The boxer may be best known for his four fights with the legendary Willie Pep, of which he won three.

Saddler reclaimed his final championship from Pep in and held onto the title until He retired a champion in January due to vision problems that stemmed from a car crash.

Saddler is also known for being an uncle to the famed DJ Grandmaster Flash. Mexican boxer Ruben Olivares is widely considered as the greatest bantamweight champion of all-time.

He holds the record for the most wins in unified title fights in bantamweight history, with six. Participating in more than fights and knocking out 79 opponents, Olivares was a dominant fighter for his time.

One of the smallest yet most destructive fighters ever, Jimmy Wilde was the first world flyweight champion in the history of boxing. Wilde holds the longest unbeaten streak in the history of boxing, having won consecutive matches.

A three-time world welterweight boxing champion, Jack Britton is not just one of the best boxers of his era, but one of the best of all-time.

He holds the world record for the number of title matches fought in a career with 37, 18 of which ended in no decisions.

After a year career, Britton was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a first-class member. Considered by many to be the greatest lightweight boxer of all-time, Joe Gans was the first black man to ever win the lightweight title.

The boxer was a trailblazer whose success guided the path for many African-American fighters. Gans held the lightweight title for a six-year stretch between and , dominating his competition over the course of that stretch.

He once fought three times in a single night. Gene Tunney Heavyweight. Joe Frazier Heavyweight. Roy Jones Jr. Super middleweight, Middleweight.

Sugar Ray Leonard Super middleweight, Welterweight. Harry Greb Middleweight. John L. During his year professional career, he won world titles in five weight divisions, the lineal championship in three weight divisions and the undisputed welterweight title.

Hagler was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in After Jack Johnson, Roberto Duran is the second boxer to have achieved a professional career spanning five decades.

The Associated Press voted him as the best lightweight of the 20th century , and boxing historian Bert Sugar ranked him the 17th greatest boxer of all time.

When he defeated Mike Tyson in to reclaim the WBA title, Holyfield became the first boxer since Muhammad Ali to win a world heavyweight title three times he later won a fourth.

A multiple world champion in three weight divisions super featherweight, lightweight and light welterweight , Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez competed professionally from to He holds the record for the most successful defenses of world titles 27 and enjoyed an unbroken run of 87 wins before his first professional loss to Frankie Randall in Oscar De La Hoya started boxing at the tender age of 5 and went on to become one of the most popular boxers in the world.

After he retired in , De La Hoya focused on his business, Golden Boy Promotions, which has since promoted some of the greatest fighters of all time, including Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

Archie Moore, a. He also holds the record for the most knockouts by any boxer The secret to his success?

In , when he defeated Oscar De La Hoya for the WBO title, Hopkins became the first male boxer to simultaneously hold world titles by all four major boxing sanctioning bodies.

When he won the light heavyweight title in at the age of 46, he became the oldest boxer in history to win a world championship , breaking the record set by George Foreman in at age During that time he defended his title 25 times to become the longest-reigning world heavyweight champion of boxing of all time.

He volunteered to enlist as a private in the army in and reached the rank of sergeant before his release in In , he became the first boxer to be honored by the U.

Postal Service, when a Joe Louis cent commemorative stamp was issued. His record was affected by a four-year career break caused by his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War , but his comeback was impressive.

He twice reclaimed his heavyweight championship and continued to be an ambassador for peace. He was the welterweight champion for five consecutive years to and a five-time middleweight champion between and Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

Before Argentine playboy Carlos Monzon was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing his girlfriend Alicia Muniz in , he held the undisputed middleweight championship for seven years.

In , after a home visit, Monzon died in a car crash. Today, Pacquiao also serves as a senator in the Philippines. With a total of 2, points, Mayweather is over points ahead of second-place Pacquiao on the list.

According to Forbes , Mayweather was the highest-earning athlete in the world in , , and Michael Spinks Terence Crawford Joey Maxim Max Schmeling Kostya Tszyu Nicolino Locche Emile Griffith Sam Langford Eder Jofre Shane Mosley Joe Frazier Willie Pep Gene Fullmer You gotta have a remarkable storyline outside of the ring too that inspires people.

He should replace James Toney because that dude is just a tin can. He is the one and only 8 Divison World Champion in different weight class in boxing Hostory.

Floyd Mayweather is the Best Runner in the ring of all time. He is not entertaining fighter. Without sportmanship. This list is verry funny Many Clown Cowerd Mayweather no 1?

Mohammad Ali RIP is the greatest boxer of all times in any devision as flyweight to heavyweight by far far distance from Maywether or Marciano or Joe loies , Forman , frazier , Paciao , Suger ray robinson , Mike tyson , Lennex luies , Holyfield , Shoger ray leonerd , Jack johnson , Dempsey , Duran , Holms , and all of legends and the new ones whome are joks like AJ, Fury.

He changed all boxing rulls and everything, he split history of boxing too before and after Ali. Ali is the only 3 time lineal champion of heavyweight.

He is the GOD of boxing. Even by this fact he got the parckinson disease before thrilla in manilla and he fight those giants like Frazier3 , Norton3 and … and therd lineal champion by a very sick body,.

BoxRec, while should be lauded for maintaining detailed logs of fights and fighters, absolutely sucks at rating those fighters.

If their current ranking of heavyweights is to be believed, then: 1. Wlad Klitschko is ranked higher than Lewis, Tyson, and Holyfield 3.

Oleksandr Usyk ranks higher than Max Schmelling 5. No heavyweight in this current era is a proven all time great. Simply because of the lack of quality in the division.

Klitchko would not have been a champion during the the Ali-Foreman era. He never fought Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield or any of the contenders during the 90s.

Which was the last era of really good heavyweight fighters. Wilder is a joke.