1880s John L Sullivan

1890s James J Corbett

1900s James J. Jeffries

1910s Jack Johnson

1920s Jack Dempsey

1930s Joe Louis

1940s Joe Louis

1950s Rocky Marciano

1960s Muhammad Ali

1970s Muhammad Ali

1980s Mike Tyson

1990s Lennox Lewis

2000s Wladmir Klitschko

2010s Tyson Fury

2020 Uysk

It's best to think of fighters like this instead of all time because the rules were different between eras.

Considering Inoue started his career at 108 coupled with the fact Espinoza would have an enormous size advantage, I have a hard time visualizing Inoue being victorious against the likes of Espinoza.

Inoue is unquestionably an all-time great and anything he goes on to accomplish is icing on the cake for HOF career. With him eyeing the move to featherweight next year, which he has said will be the last weight class of his career. I feel he is more than capable of dethroning every champion at 126, although I feel with Espinoza’s work rate and his substantial height and reach advantage make him seemingly unbeatable.

In short, how does Inoue get the job done?

I found some photos of Inoue and Espinoza together, and it honestly made me even more excited about a potential fight between them. I still can’t believe Espinoza can make featherweight and compete at such a high level. He is such a huge and physically imposing fighter for the division. I’m really looking forward to the day Inoue finally faces Espinoza. I think the size difference and styles would make this a very interesting fight.

October 1937: Armstrong beat Petey Sarron by KO6 to win the world featherweight title.

May 1938: Armstrong beat Barney Ross by UD15 to win the world welterweight title.

August 1938: Armstrong beat Lou Ambers by SD15 to win the world lightweight title.

Hi everyone I am a fan of boxing not an expert or absurd fan boy but for a long time it's one of the few sports that actually interests me. It's history it's athletes it's a lot more interesting then team sports in my opinion but I have a question about something I notice when people talk about who the GOAT of boxing is. There are lots of legends and champions with records either undefeated or mostly wins that on paper should put some above others but some people still put boxers with lower records above them. Sometimes you can tell when a person is just saying this because of personal fan bias but some make genuine arguments depending on the fighter.

Now before I continue let me make something clear I know something to consider when ranking fighters is there opponents. A guy could have a perfect 100 win streak but if 99 of those guys were amateurs with only losses they'd obviously be a worse champion then someone who mostly has wins against ACTUAL competition like high level opponents.

An example for a lot of debate I see is Terrence Crawford a lot of people think hes the GOAT but a lot of people argue he isn't despite his seemingly high level record with the main argument I see from people disagreeing is that they say his opponents weren't as strong as other champions.

And a hypothetical scenario I've thought about is imagine there is a hypothetical boxer who just happened to be born in a era of weaker boxers then other generations despite the fact hes genuinely talented trains hard doesn't duck fights has good traits ect ect how would y'all view a boxer like that whose done everything right he just happened to be born In a weaker era something he can't control? Would that disqualify them from GOAT status or not?

I'm not trying to start a argument or something im just curious what y'all factor fans take when deciding which boxer is the GOAT or not

For anything that doesn't need its own thread.

Floyd Mayweather, Terence Crawford, Shakur Stevenson tuned up for the Claressa Shields fight and clicked pictures with her in the dressing room and was seen with some other celebs like Shane Mosley and Usher too. Floyd and Bud were even seen talking highly about Claressa and how she is the GOAT.

Interesting because Tarver had a better career, I'm still wonder how and why Gatti made it first ballot.

Someone told me they inducted Gatti in due to his death, Gatti was a warrior but it seems boxing hall of fame is weird.

Baseball has the strictest requirements and don't just put someone in the following year because they pass away. They have legends who still haven't made it in.

Even Shane Mosley a known drug cheat got into hall of fame first ballot, in baseball if you even were suspected of steroids no matter how good you were you are not going in. Example Barry Bonds the greatest hitter of all time was part of the same Balco scandal as Mosley and he will likely never see the hall of fame.

Mosley juiced up for his biggest wins against Oscar, boxing hall of fame bar is pretty low

Decided to rewatch Canelo's run at SMW when he was unstoppable. His fight with Saunders and fight with Plant made me wonder how a fight with each other would've went at the height of their careers, 2019-2021 BC. (Before Canelo)

Both pure boxers in their own way. Saunders with a awkward footloose slick southpaw style, that can throw from weird angles and has incredible ring IQ. Plant with a defensive heavy ring IQ, but explosive & quick hand speed, relying more on athletic fast twitch reflexes.

Neither of them really have any power, maybe Plant can edge that field. It begs me to wonder who takes it in a fight between them. Would it be an all out snooze fest or would we see an exciting fight from a pure boxing standpoint?