Best Boxers Of All Time

Who is the best boxer of all time, even though there have been many claims to the contrary? There is always an ongoing debate over who ranks first among the finest of a generation of boxers. Boxing might be the hardest sport to judge in terms of greatness because its rules change over time. Therefore, the discussion about the best boxers of all time grows even more heated.

Some people who make such an ambitious list might concentrate on media fame or net worth, while others might choose to base their ranks on world records and numbers. It is challenging to choose the top names to include in a ranking when there have been so many legendary fighters throughout history. We have tried our best to highlight the best boxers in this post.

Top 10 Best Boxers of All Time

1. Muhammad Ali

• Born: January 17, 1942
• Died: June 3, 2016 (aged 74)
• Brands used: Cleto Reyes

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 61
• Weight(s): Heavyweight
• Wins: 56
• Losses: 5
• Wins by KO: 37

Muhammad Ali is synonymous with boxing. He has been an inspiration for a generation of top boxers including the likes of Mike Tyson (Iron Mike). Ali became the U.S Heavyweight champion at the age of 22 and won 56 fights in his professional boxing career. He was the first boxer to win the heavyweight belt three times, and he also won an Olympic gold medal. He was a heavyweight boxing champion who wowed millions of people around the world with his elegant style, speed, and strength in the ring, as well as his charming bragging and easygoing personality outside of it.

He was an inspiration to many, he was controversial, he was unapologetic about who he was and above all, one of the best boxers the world has ever seen.

2. Mike Tyson

• Born: June 30, 1966
• Age: 56
• Brands used: Eeuwig

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 58
• Weight (s): Heavyweight
• Wins: 50
• Losses: 6
• Wins by KO: 44
• No contests: 2

Michael Gerald Tyson, or Mike Tyson, was a heavyweight champion at the age of 20. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Mike Tyson became one of boxing’s most intimidating champions in the middle of the 1980s. He was known as “Iron Mike” because of how quickly and mercilessly he beat his opponents.
In his first professional fight in 1985, when he was only 18, he knocked out his opponent in the first round. This set the stage for what would become a path of destruction.
The knockout artist went on to win his first 22 fights, all but one by way of KO, thanks to his amazing defensive skills and lightning-quick fists. It is fair to say “Iron Mike” was the best boxer of his generation and one of the best boxers of all time!

3. Sugar Ray Robinson

• Born: May 3, 1921
• Died: April 12, 1989 (aged 67)
• Brands used: Eeuwig

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 201
• Weight(s): Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight, Light heavyweight
• Wins: 174
• Losses: 19
• Wins by KO: 109
• Draws: 6
• No contests: 2

Sugar Ray Robinson, whose actual name was Walker Smith, Jr., was an American professional boxer who won the world championship six times. He competed from 1946 to 1951 as a welterweight (145 pounds) and five times between 1951 and 1960 as a middleweight (165 pounds).
Many experts believe that he was the greatest fighter in history. He competed first under his original name and then as Sugar Ray Robinson, using the certificate of another boxer who had the same name in order to qualify for a fight.
He went on to win 89 boxing fights without suffering a single loss. In the years 1939 and 1940, Sugar Ray Robinson won Golden Gloves championships in the lightweight and featherweight divisions. His win-loss ratio automatically qualifies his to be considered among the greatest and best boxers of all time.

4. Rocky Marciano

• Born: September 1, 1923
• Died: August 31, 1969 (aged 45)
• Brands used: Eeuwig

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 49
• Weight (s): Heavyweight
• Wins: 49
• Losses: 0
• Wins by KO: 43
• Draws: 0
• No contests: 0

American professional boxer Rocco Francis Marchegiano, or Rocky Marciano, held the title of heavyweight champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Only Marciano has held the heavyweight belt for his whole career without ever losing it or being tied. Rocky Marciano is thought to be the best heavyweight boxer ever because he has defended his title six times.
He never lost a fight, and in the world boxing championship, he beat his opponent. He rarely lost his fights via knockout, and his blows were very powerful. In the ring, he used pressure to his advantage, charging at the opponent quickly and landing powerful blows. At 49 wins, 0 losses and having successfully defending his title 6 times , Rocky Marciano is revered by some as one of the best boxers of all time.

5. Joe Louis

• Born: May 13, 1914
• Died: April 12, 1981 (aged 66)
• Brands used: Eeuwig

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 69
• Weight (s): Heavyweight
• Wins: 66
• Losses: 3
• Wins by KO: 52

Known as the “Brown Bomber,” Joe Louis held the title of heavyweight world champion for nearly 12 years, from 1937 to 1949. Louis, an American-African boxer, is best known for his legendary fights with German boxer Max Schmeling. Max Schmeling beat Louis in 1936, but when they fought again in 1938, the press made it sound like it was a fight between American democratic ideology and Nazi ideology. Louis became a national hero after knocking Schmeling out in the opening round. Legends are sometimes made during one boxing match, and this was one such match that elevated Joe to be considered one of the best boxers of all time.
During his reign, which was the longest in the history of any weight class, he successfully defended his title 25 times and knocked out 21 opponents. This was more than any other champion had ever achieved.
His service in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945 prevented him from defending his title many more times. He had a reputation for being a very efficient and precise knockout puncher.

6. Floyd Mayweather Sr.

• Born: October 19, 1952
• Age: 70
• Brands used: Grant

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 35
• Weight (s): Welterweight
• Wins: 28
• Losses: 6
• Wins by KO: 18
• Draws: 1

Welterweight contender Floyd Mayweather Sr. started his career in 1970. Mayweather, who is best known for his complicated defensive strategies, had a lot of success as a prizefighter.
In November 1974, he defeated Ron Pettigrew in four rounds for his first victory. Mayweather later went on to enter Randolph Air Force Base in 1977. He beat Miguel Barreto to win the United States Championship Tournament.
Mayweather quickly gained a reputation as a boxer who would fight any opponent, including the legendary Ray Leonard in 1978 at the Rhode Island Civic Center.
For Mayweather, the change from combatant to trainer came naturally. Many believe that the defensive maneuver, the “shoulder roll,” in which a boxer employs his shoulder facing forward as a barrier against any incoming blows, is one of Mayweather’s most significant contributions to the boxing sport. His not famous son Floyd Mayweather Jr. is also considered one of the best boxers of his generation but Floyd Mayweather Sr. is in a league of his own and one of the best boxers of all time.

7. Carlos Monzon

• Born: 7 August 1942
• Died: 8 January 1995 (aged 52)
• Brands used: Corti

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 100
• Weight (s): Middleweight
• Wins: 87
• Losses: 3
• Wins by KO: 59
• Draws: 9
• No contests: 1

Carlos Monzon, an Argentine professional boxer who held the world middleweight (165-pound) title from 1970 to 1977, was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. In Argentina, Monzon started boxing professionally in 1963. When he traveled to Rome and defeated Italian Nino Benvenuti in the 12th round on November 7, 1970, he had already won the Argentine and South American middleweight championships.
Monzon mostly fought in Europe before he retired in 1977. He beat 11 opponents and successfully defended his title 14 times. He had 87 wins, with 59 of those victories coming by way of knockout; 3 losses (all on judges’ decisions early in his career); 9 ties; and 3 no-contests.

8. Bernard Hopkins

• Born: January 15, 1965
• Age: 57
• Brands used: Cleto Reyes

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 67
• Weight(s): Middleweight, Light heavyweight
• Wins: 55
• Losses: 8
• Wins by KO: 32
• Draws: 2
• No contests: 2

Bernard Hopkins, a former boxer from the United States who competed from 1988 to 2016, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was dubbed “The Executioner” and is most known for his 10-year, 20-title-defense tenure as the world middleweight champion. He is also a former World Light Heavyweight Champion and the first fighter to ever win belts from all four major boxing governing bodies, including the Ring Magazine title, in the same bout.
Bernard became a professional boxer and fought Clinton Mitchell at light heavyweight in Atlantic City in October 1988, but he lost.
He returned to the ring as a middleweight after a 16-month break, defeating Greg Paige in Philadelphia in February 1990 by unanimous decision over four rounds.
Bernard Hopkins won 20 fights between February 1990 and September 1992, 11 of which came in the opening round and 15 of which were knockouts.

9. Archie Moore

• Born: December 13, 1913
• Died: December 9, 1998 (aged 84)
• Brands Used: Seyer

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 220
• Weight(s): Middleweight, Light heavyweight, Heavyweight
• Wins: 186
• Losses: 23
• Wins by KO: 132
• Draws: 10
• No contests: 1

Archie Moore, whose real name is Archibald Lee Wright, was an American boxer who held the title of light-heavyweight world champion between 1952 and 1962. Although he defeated Joey Maxim in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 9, 1998, he was stripped of the world champion title because he failed to face the 175-pound challenger, Harold Johnson, who was a top contender. He began boxing professionally in 1938, and he competed in twelve fights in San Diego, with one exception. In his eight fights in 1939, Moore went 5-2 overall with one “no contest.”
During that time, he lost an 8-round fight with no winner to Teddy Yarosz, who would later be inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 1940, Moore went to Australia. He fought in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Tasmania. There, he won all seven of his fights, including six by knockout. He knocked out Pancho Ramirez in five rounds after returning to the country, but he was defeated by Shorty Hogue in a six-round decision. To be considered one of the best boxers of all time after a 100+ years shows what a great boxer Archie was.

10.  Oscar De La Hoya

• Born: February 4, 1973
• Age: 49
• Brands used: Cleto Reyes

Boxing record:

• Total fights: 45
• Weight(s): Super featherweight, Lightweight, Light welterweight, Welterweight, Light middleweight, Middleweight
• Wins: 39
• Losses: 6
• Wins by KO: 30

The American boxer Oscar De La Hoya earned a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, earning him the moniker “The Golden Boy.” In his career, Oscar De La Hoya competed in six different weight classes and won 10 world championships. Oscar De La Hoya won gold in the 125-pound weight division in the 1990 Goodwill Games and the U.S. amateur boxing competition. He entered the Goodwill Games tournament that year as the youngest fighter at 17 years old. He again won the American amateur boxing championship the following year, but this time in the 132-pound division.
After the Olympics, De La Hoya began his professional career. His final career record consisted of 39 wins and 6 losses. His victories included 30 knockouts. He founded Golden Boy Promotions, a boxing marketing company, in 2002.
The company also manages the Oscar De La Hoya Foundation, a charity that aids low-income families in his former East Los Angeles area. Oscar De La Hoya also worked in the fashion and music sectors.

Summary

One of the most eagerly anticipated sports in the world is boxing. To perform at your greatest level, you must be very physically fit and strong. There have been many outstanding boxers throughout history.
Who are the best boxers in the world? is a contentious issue. When looking at the boxing odds, there are a number of things to consider, including a boxer’s awards and accomplishments.
It’s very difficult to determine who the greatest boxer was because there have been outstanding boxers at every age, each with a unique set of talents. Furthermore, heavyweights receive a significant amount of attention when it comes to the greatest of all-time boxer rankings, possibly due to the weight class’s prominence.
When you add up all the boxers’ skills, it’s hard to say who is the best of all time. However, there are some fighters who have made important contributions inside and outside the ring that make them the best of all time.

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