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Rankings & Lists

50 Greatest Boxers of All Time

The 50 greatest boxers in history ranked across all weight classes.

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🥊Boxing

The 50 greatest boxers in history ranked across all weight classes.

1
MA

American·Boxing

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali became the first boxer to win the heavyweight championship on three separate occasions across a storied career.

56-5-0 · 3 world titles

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SR

American·Boxing

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson won six world titles across two divisions and compiled a legendary 91-fight unbeaten streak.

174-19-6 · 6 world titles

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3
JL

American·Boxing

Joe Louis

Joe Louis was an American heavyweight champion who held his title for nearly 12 years and set the record for most consecutive successful hea

66-3-0 · 1 world titles

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4
JF

American·Boxing

Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier was an American boxer and 1964 Olympic gold medalist who became undisputed heavyweight champion and was the first man to beat Mu

32-4-1 · 1 world titles

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5
RM

American·Boxing

Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano was an American heavyweight champion who retired in 1956 with a perfect 49-0 record.

49-0-0 · 1 world titles

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SR

American·Boxing

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard is an Olympic gold medalist who became the first five-division world champion and beat Durán, Hearns, and Hagler.

36-3-1 · 5 world titles

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RD

Panamanian·Boxing

Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán is a Panamanian boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, winning titles in four weight divisions.

103-16-0 · 4 world titles

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MH

American·Boxing

Marvin Hagler

Marvin Hagler held the undisputed middleweight championship for nearly seven years, making twelve successful title defenses, almost all by k

62-3-2 · 1 world titles

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TH

American·Boxing

Thomas Hearns

Thomas Hearns is a Detroit-based American boxer known for his punching power who won world titles across five weight classes.

61-5-1 · 5 world titles

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FM

American·Boxing

Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is an American former professional boxer who retired with an undefeated 50-0 record.

50-0-0 · 15 world titles

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MP

Filipino·Boxing

Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao is a Filipino boxer and former senator who became the only eight-division world champion in boxing history.

62-8-3 · 8 world titles

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MT

American·Boxing

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion ever at age 20 and unified the WBC, WBA and IBF titles by 1987.

50-6-0 · 3 world titles

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GF

American·Boxing

George Foreman

George Foreman was an American boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion who became, at 45, the oldest man ever to win the heavyweight t

76-5-0 · 2 world titles

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LH

American·Boxing

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes was a dominant American heavyweight who held the WBC and inaugural IBF titles for seven years and successfully defended his cha

69-6-0 · 3 world titles

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AM

American·Boxing

Archie Moore

Archie Moore held the light heavyweight title for nearly a decade and holds the all-time record of 132 career knockouts.

186-23-10 · 1 world titles

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LL

British/Canadian·Boxing

Lennox Lewis

Lennox Lewis was a British-Canadian heavyweight who became a three-time world champion and undisputed heavyweight champion, retiring undefea

41-2-1 · 3 world titles

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JJ

American·Boxing

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, holding the title from 1908 to 1915.

68-11-10 · 1 world titles

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JD

American·Boxing

Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey was an American world heavyweight champion (1919-1926) renowned for his aggressive style and status as a cultural icon of 1920s

68-6-10 · 1 world titles

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HA

American·Boxing

Henry Armstrong

Henry Armstrong uniquely held featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight world titles at the same time in 1938.

151-22-10 · 3 world titles

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CM

Argentine·Boxing

Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón dominated the middleweight division for most of the 1970s and made a record 14 successful title defenses.

87-3-9 · 1 world titles

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JC

Mexican·Boxing

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a Mexican three-weight world champion who holds the all-time record for most combined world-title defences.

107-6-2 · 3 world titles

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SL

American·Boxing

Sonny Liston

Sonny Liston was a dominant American heavyweight who won and briefly defended the world title before two controversial losses to Muhammad Al

50-4-0 · 1 world titles

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EH

American·Boxing

Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is an American boxer who is the only four-time world heavyweight champion and a former undisputed cruiserweight champion.

44-10-2 · 5 world titles

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GT

American·Boxing

Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney was an American world heavyweight champion (1926-1928) who retired undefeated after twice beating Jack Dempsey.

80-1-3 · 1 world titles

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JJ

American·Boxing

Jersey Joe Walcott

Jersey Joe Walcott won the world title on his fifth attempt at age 37 before losing it to Rocky Marciano.

51-18-2 · 1 world titles

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AA

Nicaraguan·Boxing

Alexis Argüello

Alexis Argüello won world titles in three weight classes and later became a national political figure in Nicaragua.

82-8-0 · 3 world titles

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KN

American·Boxing

Ken Norton

Ken Norton was an American heavyweight boxer who was awarded the WBC world heavyweight title in 1978 and broke Muhammad Ali's jaw during the

42-7-1 · 1 world titles

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FP

American·Boxing

Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson was an American boxer and 1952 Olympic gold medalist who became the youngest heavyweight champion and the first to regain th

55-8-1 · 2 world titles

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OD

American·Boxing

Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya won eleven world titles across six weight classes, including lineal championships in three of them.

39-6-0 · 11 world titles

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PW

American·Boxing

Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker was a southpaw regarded as one of history's greatest defensive fighters and a four-weight world champion.

40-4-1 · 4 world titles

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BH

American·Boxing

Bernard Hopkins

Bernard 'The Executioner' Hopkins set the record for successful middleweight title defences and became the oldest man to win a world title a

55-8-2 · 6 world titles

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RJ

American·Boxing

Roy Jones Jr

Roy Jones Jr. became the first fighter in over 100 years to win a heavyweight title after starting his career at middleweight.

66-10-0 · 6 world titles

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OU

Ukrainian·Boxing

Oleksandr Usyk

Oleksandr Usyk became the first male three-time undisputed champion of boxing's four-belt era, at both cruiserweight and heavyweight.

25-0-0 · 3 world titles

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JC

Welsh·Boxing

Joe Calzaghe

Joe Calzaghe is a Welsh former professional boxer who retired undefeated after unifying three of the four major super middleweight titles.

46-0-0 · 2 world titles

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RB

American·Boxing

Riddick Bowe

Riddick Bowe defeated Evander Holyfield in 1992 to become undisputed champion and later added the WBO title in 1995.

43-1-0 · 2 world titles

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CÁ

Mexican·Boxing

Canelo Álvarez

Canelo Álvarez is a Mexican boxer who has won world titles in four weight classes and became the first undisputed super middleweight champio

63-3-2 · 39 KOs

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PN

British/Yemeni·Boxing

Prince Naseem Hamed

Naseem Hamed is a British boxer of Yemeni heritage who dominated the featherweight division through the late 1990s.

36-1-0 · 3 world titles

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RH

British·Boxing

Ricky Hatton

Ricky Hatton was a British boxer who became a unified light-welterweight and welterweight world champion known for his massive fanbase.

45-3-0 · 4 world titles

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39
MC

Puerto Rican·Boxing

Miguel Cotto

Miguel Cotto is one of Puerto Rico's greatest boxing icons, a four-division world champion known for his punching power and toughness.

41-6-0 · 4 world titles

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MA

Mexican·Boxing

Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera is a Mexican boxer who won world titles in three weight divisions and is best remembered for his classic trilogy again

67-7-0 · 3 world titles

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JM

Mexican·Boxing

Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel Márquez is a Mexican four-weight world champion best remembered for his historic four-fight rivalry with Manny Pacquiao.

56-7-1 · 4 world titles

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EM

Mexican·Boxing

Erik Morales

Erik 'El Terrible' Morales is a Mexican boxer remembered for his classic trilogy against Marco Antonio Barrera.

52-9-0 · 4 world titles

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43
MT

American·Boxing

Meldrick Taylor

Meldrick Taylor is an American two-division world champion and Olympic gold medalist best remembered for a controversial late stoppage loss

38-8-1 · 2 world titles

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WG

Puerto Rican·Boxing

Wilfredo Gómez

Wilfredo Gómez is a Puerto Rican three-weight world champion renowned for an unmatched streak of 17 consecutive knockout title defenses.

44-3-1 · 3 world titles

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NI

Japanese·Boxing

Naoya Inoue

Naoya Inoue is a four-division undisputed world champion known for exceptional knockout power relative to his weight.

33-0-0 · 4 world titles

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AJ

British·Boxing

Anthony Joshua

Anthony Joshua is a British heavyweight who won Olympic gold in 2012 and twice held the unified IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles.

30-4-0 · 2 world titles

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TF

British·Boxing

Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury is a British heavyweight who ended Wladimir Klitschko's long reign in 2015 and later won the WBC title, becoming a two-time world

36-2-1 · 2 world titles

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DW

American·Boxing

Deontay Wilder

Deontay Wilder is an American heavyweight known for his exceptional knockout power who held the WBC world title for five years.

45-4-1 · 1 world titles

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GD

American·Boxing

Gervonta Davis

Gervonta 'Tank' Davis is an undefeated American boxer who has held world titles in three weight classes.

30-0-1 · 4 world titles

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HH

American·Boxing

Holly Holm

Holly Holm is an American boxer, mixed martial artist, and multiple-time world champion who held titles in three boxing weight divisions bef

34-4-3 · 14 world titles

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