results from January-June 1925 used the 1925 annual and the rest of the year used 1926s. Louis began facing contenders just a dozen fights into his career and kept facing them for the rest of it. Group two was anyone else who finished in the top 100 for peak score and ranked wins but not overall points (65-69). When Robinson handed 42-0 future welterweight champion Marty Servo his first loss in September 1941, Servo had yet to crack Rings top 10. Photo / THE RING archives. Romero was ranked intermittently at light heavyweight from 1937-38 and for most of 1943. Saddler and Pep would face off one more time, Pep losing the series to his archrival 3-1 with all three losses inside the distance. Thought was given to leaving the results as they were for this online edition but it wouldnt have followed the methodology employed and wouldnt have given readers the best findings possible as they are now. A win over the champion of ones weight class, in a title or non-title fight, was worth 11 points, a No. The solution was to include all results from 1924 in evaluating 1925 and then applying six-month increments with spare exception near mid-year dates until the debut of monthly rankings; i.e. Photo: The Ring Magazine/ Getty Images. Losses worked in reverse. Mayweathers wins over Angel Manfredy and Diego Corrales were also No. Saddler ended a 73-fight unbeaten streak. 14 Roy Jones Jr. Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American former professional boxer, boxing commentator, boxing trainer, rapper, and actor who holds dual American and Russian citizenship. Career Record: 85-24-2, 1 No Contest (23 KOs, 2 KOBY) First Ring Ranking: 2-ranked bantamweight defeated the No. Whitaker retired in 2001 with a record of 40-4-1-1 with 17 knockouts. Charles had won the NBAs recognition as champion in June 1949 following his first win over Walcott. Missing Quality: Mannion was unranked when McCallum defeated him and never achieved a ranking in The Ring. Seventeen of Louis 25 defenses came against ranked heavyweights, seven of them Rings No. Rankings from 1925-1928 had no monthly movement. James Toney downs 1996 Olympic champ Vassily Jirov to win the IBF cruiserweight title in 2003, the year he earned his second Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year award. In three straight fights, Moore knocked out longtime rival and leading contender Harold Johnson, jumped up to decision Valdez at heavyweight and then returned to light heavyweight to knock out reigning middleweight champion Bobo Olson. WebTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (50-41) #50 Michael Spinks (737.4 points; 31-1-0) Considered to be one of the best light heavyweights of all time, Michael Spinks (known as Jinx) held world championships in both the light heavyweight class (he was the undisputed champ from 1983 to 1985) and the lineal heavyweight class (from 1985 to 1988). Former champion Joey Archibald received his final Ring ranking, at No. By the time Pep lost again versus Sandy Saddler in October 1948, overcoming injuries suffered in a January 1947 plane crash along the way, Pep had run his record to 134-1-1. Pep was Rings 1945 Fighter of the Year. 50. Gus Lesnevich, Ring Magazines 1947 Fighter of the Year. As an amateur, he made a name for himself by going 86-0 before turning pro in 1940. It took over five years to climb to number one in the February 1940 issue, a spot he held for almost a year before sliding as low as four. His back-to-back middleweight title wars with Carmen Basilio won Rings 1957 and 1958 Fight-of-the-Year award. Six of the nine fights in the Benitez version took place before Duran-Hagler added the Marvelous one to the mix. Griffith could be defeated, but his ability to consistently rebound from losses was remarkable. He would remain recognized as Rings champion until his retirement following the only knockout loss of his career to heavyweight champion Joe Louis. The final average score was used to order the fighters in each group for those who made the top 100. Puerto Ricos El Radar was a prodigious talent, capturing the Jr. welterweight crown at just seventeen years old before engaging in a four-way rivalry with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran at welterweight and Jr. middleweight. Peter Manfredo TKO 3 (10) 168 07/07, Bernard Hopkins SD 12* (C+) 175 07/08, First Ring Ranking: World Jr. Welterweight Champion (May 1976), Last Ring Ranking: #8 Middleweight (April 1986), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 12-5-1 (5 KO, 3 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Jr. Welterweight (1976-79), Welterweight (1979), Wilfredo Benitez on the April 1982 cover of The Ring Magazine. A 1995 world amateur champion and 1996 Olympian, the Magic Man rebounded from his first loss to Eric Harding with wins over ranked opponents in four of his next five starts. Pep won his first 62 fights with four wins against Ring-ranked opposition, including his featherweight title win over Chalky Wright, before his career was three years old. Thanks for signing up! 1-ranked heavyweight Nino Valdez to set up an ill-fated shot at Rocky Marciano. The rankings of the August 1944 issue of The Ring carried an as of date of June 10. Some other small corrections have been made to results and summaries but they didnt change the final results. Atilio Sabatino TKO 5 (5) 160 06/40], Eddie Booker TKO by 8 (UR) 160 03/44, Lloyd Marshall TKO 10 (2) 175 08/45], Jimmy Bivins KO by 6 (2+) Hvy 10/45, Holman Williams L 10 (1-) 160 12/45, Holman Williams TKO 11 (1-) 160 01/46, Ezzard Charles KO by 8 (1) 175 03/48, Oakland Billy Smith UD 10 (2) 175 06/48, Leonard Morrow KO by 1 (UR) 175 07/48, Charley Williams KO 7 (7) 175 02/49, Harold Johnson UD 10 (10) 175 06/49, Clinton Bacon DQ by 6 (UR) 175 07/49, Clarence Henry UD 10 (5+) Hvy 08/52, Harold Johnson TKO 14 (1) 175 09/54, Rocky Marciano KO by 9 (C) Hvy 11/55, Yolande Pompey TKO 10 (1) 175 07/56, Floyd Patterson KO by 5* (2) Hvy 01/57, Alejandro Lavorante TKO 10 (6+) Hvy 05/62, Willie Pastrano D 10 (UR) Hvy 07/62, Muhammad Ali TKO by 4 (7) Hvy 12/62, First Ring Ranking: #1 Flyweight (April 1999), Last Ring Ranking: #5 Welterweight (December 2021), Record vs. Ring-rated Opponents: 23-7-2 (11 KOs, 2 KOBY), Ring Magazine Championships: Featherweight (2003-05), Jr. Lightweight (2008), Jr. Welterweight (2009-10), Manny Pacquiao was Rings 2006, 2008 and 2009 Fighter of the Year. 3. The Cincinnati Cobra competed with the elite from middleweight to heavyweight for the better part of a decade without a title shot. After the loss to Frazier, Ali would fight 14 times, going 8-1 in that run against ranked opposition (seven heavyweights and light heavyweight champion Bob Foster) before upsetting George Foreman to regain the title. Replace Marvin Hagler with Benitez and one still has a four-man, nine-fight series which included a near flawless masterpiece of skill in Benitezs lopsided decision over Duran. Missing Quality: Alis lost years between 1967 and 1970 will always leave room to wonder if he might have been able to surpass Louis division record of 25 consecutive title defenses. 1 vs. No. Missing Quality: Richie Woodhall fell out of the top ten just a few months before a loss to Calzaghe in 2000 but had been a titlist in the class just two fights prior. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Of his 40 wins against ranked opposition, 11 were against reigning champions or fighters ranked No. A native of Panama, Duran is considered to be the best lightweight fighter in modern boxing history. Joe Louis; Sam Langford; Jimmy Wilde; Archie Moore; Sandy Saddler; Stanley Ketchel; Jack Dempsey; Bob Fitzsimmons; George Foreman; Earnie Shavers; Sugar Ray Robinson; Ruben Olivares; Wilfredo Gomez; Rocky Marciano; Sonny Liston; Mike Tyson; Bob 1 contender at lightweight for all but two issues from October 1929 to July 1930 following his title reign at featherweight. And the final part of this series (originally published in the February 2022 issue of The Ring) makes its RingTV.com debut on the 100th birthday of the venerable boxing magazine. Pacquiao couldnt solve the riddle of Mayweather in the richest fight of all time, but several multi-fight rivalries magnified the greatness of Pacquiao. Robinson turned professional in October 1940 and rose to No. Corrections to the initial findings of Peter Kane, Benny Lynch, and Jake LaMotta changed the position of each. The exception was fighters moving up to face heavyweights. Twenty-seven of those wins came against ranked opposition after Moore entered the rankings for the first time. Missing Quality: Peps dominance at featherweight included recognizable names who werent far removed from contention when Pep defeated them. Left-handed Pernell Whitaker made a name for himself by winning gold medals at the 1983Pan American Games and 1984 Summer Olympics. Lesnevich recaptured the top spot the issue before assuming the mantle left vacant in The Ring by Billy Conns move to heavyweight. However, in editing the remainder of the study, the Armstrong knockout of Davis was also found in the results of the August 1944 issue. That included his most legendary win, the first-round knockout of Max Schmeling in their rematch. Historians recognize Canzoneri as a three-division champion. Cecilia Braekhaus. The big punching Ray turned pro in 1933 and would spend most of the second half of the 1940s as a heavyweight contender. Griffith was Rings 1964 Fighter of the Year. Sometimes, fighters were separated by fractions of points in the total or peak points categories so single wins and losses were impactful in the scoring. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Every time Canelo Alvarez, Naoya Inoue, or Roman Gonzalez pick up a big win or loss, they will move up or down accordingly. 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