50 Greatest Boxers of All Time
The 50 greatest boxers in history ranked across all weight classes.
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The 50 greatest boxers in history ranked across all weight classes.
Muhammad Ali
The Greatest — three-time world heavyweight champion, Olympic gold medallist and the most celebrated athlete of the 20th century.
56-5 (37 KOs)
Sugar Ray Robinson
The greatest boxer of all time by the consensus of boxing historians — the pound-for-pound pinnacle.
148
Joe Louis
The Brown Bomber — 25 consecutive heavyweight title defences across 11 years, the most in boxing history.
63
Sugar Ray Leonard
Five-weight world champion — boxing's most marketable champion of the 1980s.
32
Roberto Durán
Four-division world champion from Panama — one of boxing's toughest and most feared fighters across five decades.
103-16 (70 KOs)
Floyd Mayweather
50-0 — the undefeated professional record and the most commercially successful boxing career in history.
50-0
Manny Pacquiao
The only boxer in history to win world titles in eight different weight divisions — from flyweight to super welterweight across a career spa
62-8-2 (39 KOs)
Mike Tyson
The youngest heavyweight champion in history at 20 years and 145 days — the most feared boxer of his era.
50-6 (44 KOs)
Rocky Marciano
The only heavyweight champion in history to retire undefeated — a perfect 49-0 record including 43 knockouts.
49-0 (43 KOs)
George Foreman
Two-time world heavyweight champion who returned to boxing at 45 and became the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
76-5 (68 KOs)
Joe Frazier
Olympic gold medallist and world heavyweight champion who defeated Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century.
32-4-1 (27 KOs)
Marvin Hagler
Undisputed middleweight champion and one of the most fearsome fighters in boxing history — changed his name to "Marvelous" as a mark of defi
62-3-2 (52 KOs)
Thomas Hearns
The Hitman — five-division world champion whose right hand was considered the most powerful single punch in boxing history.
61-5-1 (48 KOs)
Evander Holyfield
The Real Deal — four-time heavyweight champion and the man who bit off part of his ear.
32
Lennox Lewis
The last undisputed heavyweight champion — Olympic gold and unbeatable in two championship reigns.
41-2-1
Julio César Chávez
The Mexican warrior — 87 consecutive wins without a loss, the most celebrated career in Mexican boxing.
99
Oscar De La Hoya
The Golden Boy — six-weight world champion and the most commercially successful Hispanic boxer of his era.
33
Pernell Whitaker
Supremely gifted American southpaw nicknamed 'Sweet Pea' who is widely regarded as the finest defensive boxer of his era, winning world titl
52-4 · 5 world titles
Bernard Hopkins
The Executioner — Bernard Hopkins holds the record for the most consecutive middleweight title defences in boxing history at 20, achieved fr
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Roy Jones Jr
The most athletically gifted boxer of the 1990s — light heavyweight champion who moved up to heavyweight to claim the title.
66-10
Larry Holmes
48-0 as champion — the most underrated dominant heavyweight of modern boxing.
63
Jack Johnson
Pioneering African-American heavyweight champion whose ring brilliance, courage and refusal to serve in World War I made him a complex and c
66-8-4
Jack Dempsey
Ferocious American heavyweight champion of the 1920s whose savage punching power, relentless aggression and defining matches with Gene Tunne
66-13-6
Katie Taylor
Ireland's greatest ever boxer — Olympic gold medallist, undisputed lightweight world champion and the fighter who made women's boxing a main
Olympic Gold 2012
Oleksandr Usyk
Undisputed heavyweight champion — the first to hold all four belts since Lennox Lewis, defeating both Joshua and Fury.
22-0 (14 KOs)
Claressa Shields
The greatest female boxer of all time and the only boxer — male or female — to hold all four major world titles simultaneously in two weight
Olympic Gold 2012, 2016
Nicola Adams
Britain's most celebrated female boxer and a pioneer of historic significance — the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal in histo
Olympic Gold 2012, 2016 (first women's Olympic boxing gold ever)
Vasyl Lomachenko
Ukrainian technical wizard widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, whose lightning reflexes, defensive mastery and c
40-4-1 · 3 world titles
Anthony Joshua
Two-time world heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medallist who unified the heavyweight titles in 2019.
IBF/WBA/WBO Heavyweight Champion 2x
Wladimir Klitschko
Ukraine's dominant heavyweight champion who held world titles for ten consecutive years and unified the belts multiple times.
64-5
Floyd Patterson
The first heavyweight champion to regain the world title — Floyd Patterson lost to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then knocked him out in the
World Heavyweight Champion 2x
Lucia Rijker
Considered the greatest female boxer of all time by many in the sport — 17-0 with 14 knockouts, Dutch kickboxing world champion before trans
17-0 (14 KOs)
Juan Manuel Márquez
Four world titles and one of boxing's greatest rivalries — Márquez's knockout of Pacquiao in his fourth fight is the most dramatic punch of
56-7-1 (40 KOs)
Holly Holm
The most accomplished combat sports crossover athlete — 33-2-3 professional boxing record with world titles before transitioning to MMA and
33-3-3 (9 KOs)
Cecilia Brækhus
The most dominant female boxer of the modern era — the first woman in boxing history to hold all four major world titles simultaneously, rul
36-2 (9 KOs)
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
50-0 — the most financially successful boxer in history and the unbeaten defensive genius who many consider the finest technical boxer ever.
50-0 (27 KOs)
Chantelle Cameron
Britain's most versatile female world champion — unified super lightweight world champion who stepped up to welterweight to defeat Katie Tay
Undisputed Super Lightweight World Champion
Canelo Álvarez
Four-weight world champion and Mexico's most celebrated modern athlete — the face of the boxing revival.
61-2-2
Seniesa Estrada
The fastest knockout artist in women's boxing history — recorded a 7-second TKO, the fastest in any professional boxing division, and holds
WBO/WBA/IBF/WBC Minimumweight Champion
Nonito Donaire
Filipino four-division world champion nicknamed the 'Filipino Flash' whose extraordinary hand speed and combination punching have earned him
62-8 · 4 world titles
Aaron Pryor
The Hawk — pound-for-pound best of the early 1980s, his two fights with Alexis Argüello are the finest boxing matches of that decade.
WBA/IBF Junior Welterweight Champion
Amir Khan
British light-welterweight Olympic gold medallist and world champion whose hand speed, fluid movement and big-fight performances made him a
45-5 · 2 world titles
Kazuto Ioka
Japanese four-division champion and one of Asia's most decorated fighters, whose technical excellence and longevity across more than a decad
52-2 · 4 world titles
Roman González
Nicaraguan boxing legend and former world champion at four weight classes, whose exceptional skills and thrilling exchanges with Carlos Cuad
60-4 · 4 world titles
Junto Nakatani
Undefeated Japanese junior bantamweight champion whose surgical precision, high punch output and clinical finishing have seen him demolish o
18-0 · 3 world titles
Shane Mosley
American three-division world champion nicknamed 'Sugar Shane' whose combination of hand speed, power and athleticism produced victories ove
48-8-1 · 3 world titles
Andre Ward
Undefeated American super-middleweight and light-heavyweight champion widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer of his era, who reti
32-0 · 3 world titles
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Cuban two-time Olympic gold medallist and two-time super-bantamweight champion whose defensive perfection, angles and ring intelligence have
22-1 · 2 world titles
Marco Antonio Barrera
Mexican super-bantamweight and featherweight legend who participated in one of boxing's greatest trilogies with Erik Morales, combining Mexi
74-5 · 4 world titles
Naoya Inoue
The Monster — Japan's pound-for-pound number one and the most feared puncher in the lighter weight classes.
28-0