Top 10 Greatest Boxers of the World

The 10 Greatest Boxers (Dangerously Deadly) Of All Time 

Boxing is a world-famous sport which has given us extremely powerful boxers with deadly skills. Boxers become great when they are unbeaten, dangerously strong, can knock the other boxers out quickly and easily, have lots of world titles and are a scare factor for other boxers. Who are those fierce boxers who are regarded as the all-time greatest in the world? Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali are few boxing greats in the world. There are many others who have great achievements under their belt.






Check out the list of the 10 greatest boxers of all time who are extremely scary and dangerous:

10. Floyd Mayweather Jr., USA

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one the greatest boxers of all time who has been never defeated during his career. Mayweather has won fifteen world titles in total. He has also won the lineal championship in four different weight divisions. The legendary boxer has won the The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Year two times. He has won the Best Fighter ESPY Award six times. Several sporting magazines, websites and media list him as the greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. He is one of the greatest welterweight boxers of all time. Out of his 49 total match victories he won 26 by knockouts without any loss or draw. From 2012 to 2015 he has been one of the highest paid athletes in the world. Mayweather is known for his aggressive fighting skills only when in danger.

9. Julio Cesar Chavez , Mexico

Julio César Chávez is one of the greatest boxers to have come from Mexico. Chávez is also one of the greatest boxers of all time. He is known for his outstanding punching power, devastating body attack, remarkably strong chin and the relentless stalking of his opponents.  ESPN ranks him at number 24 on the list of “50 Greatest Boxers of All Time”.  In 2010 he was inducted into the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Why should he be the greatest? The reason behind that is: he is six times world champion in three weight divisions.  For several years he has been the best boxer in the world, pound for pound.  He held the WBC super featherweight title from 1984 to 1987. Out of his 115 fights, he won 86 by knockouts and lost only 6. He never met a defeat for his first 90 matches (89 wins and 1 draw). Chávez set the record for the largest attendance for a boxing match-132,274-at the Estadio Azteca for his fight against Greg Haugen in 1993. The boxing legend is known by the nickname Mr. KO.

8. George Foreman, USA

George Foreman is a devastating boxer who is known to have won the great Joe Frazier with a second round knockout to win the world title. The heavyweight professional boxer won the Olympic gold medal in the heavyweight category in 1968 Olympic Games held in Mexico City. Out of 81 total professional matches, Foreman has won 76 matches with 68 of them coming by a knockout. He lost only 6 matches in his career. The International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) rates Foreman as the eighth greatest heavyweight of all time. In 2002, The Ring magazine named him one of the 25 greatest fighters of the past 80 years. After retiring from professional boxing in 1977, Foreman made a comeback in 1987 and won the world heavyweight title in 1994 at the age of 45. He won against the 27 years old champion Michael Moorer to regain the world titles of WBA, IBF, and lineal.

7.  Sugar Ray Leonard, USA

Sugar Ray Leonard is one the greatest boxers of all time. In 1987, the defeat of “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler by Sugar Ray Leonard for the World Boxing Council’s middleweight title is one of the greatest professional boxing matches of all time. He was part of “The Fabulous Four”, a group of amazing boxers who fought each other throughout the 1980s. All the four were equally deadly and dangerous and they were Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and himself. He is known to have won against all the other three boxing champs. He fought for 20 years from 1977 to 1997 winning the world titles in five different weight divisions, lineal championship three times and welterweight title. The Ring magazine named him two times Fighter of the Year, once in 1979 and in 1981. The Boxing Writers Association of America awarded him the Fighter of the Year in 1976, 1979 and 1981. He was declared as “Boxer of the Decade” in the 1980s.

6. Joe Louis, USA

Joe Louis is a deadly puncher. He stood number one on The Ring magazine’s list of the “100 greatest punchers of all time.” The champion boxer is one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. He was the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949. Out of a total of 69 total professional fights, he won 52 with a knockout and lost only 3. His most remarkable record is that he knocked out 23 opponents in 27 title fights, including five world champions. The Afro-American boxer’s championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 26 championship fights. In 2005, Louis came as the best heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization. In 1941, Louis won the Sugar Ray Robinson Award.

5. Manny Pacquiao, Philippines

Manny Pacquiao is regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time as he is the first and only eight-division world champion. The professional boxer is known to have won eleven major world titles, as well as being the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes. He is also a three-time Ring magazine and BWAA Fighter of the Year, winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009. The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), WBC, and WBO named him as “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s. Magazines and websites such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting Life, Yahoo! Sports, About.com, BoxRec, and The Ring have rated him as the best pound for pound boxer in the world until his losses in 2012.

He was popular enough to get his biography in the Pacquiao: The Movie. Pacquiao became the first Filipino athlete to appear on a postage stamp...

4. Muhammad Ali, USA

Muhammad Ali is one of the most decorated and significant sports figure in the world. Ali has been an inspirational, controversial and polarizing athlete from his initial career.  The legendary boxer won a gold medal in the light heavyweight category in the 1960 Summer Olympics, Rome. At the age of 22 in 1964 he won the WBA, WBC and lineal heavyweight titles. He is the only boxer to receive The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year award six times. The Sports Illustrated magazine ranked Ali as the greatest athlete of the 20th century. Ali had extremely quick reflexes, foot movements and hand speed. He was known for his highly unorthodox boxing style who would punch the opponent powerfully from unpredictable angles. Ali is regarded as one the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing history. Ali’s punches produced approximately 1,000 pounds of force.

3. Rocky Marciano, USA

Rocky Marciano is known for his relentless fighting style, stamina and iron chin. Many boxing historians rank him as one the best boxers of all time in history. Out of a total of 49 professional boxing matches he won 43 by knockouts making the record as the best in history. The incredible boxer has never lost any matches during his career. The heavyweight boxer held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956. Rocky Marciano became the inspiration for the American classic Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky movie series. In 2006, an ESPN poll voted Marciano’s 1952 championship bout against Walcott as the greatest knockout ever. Several magazines and media polls have voted the legend as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. Marciano won the Sugar Ray Robinson Award in 1962.

2. Sugar Ray Robinson, USA

Sugar Ray Robinson was an American professional boxer known today as one the greatest boxers of all time. He won 108 matches with a knockout. At the age of 19, Robinson became a professional boxer. He became the first boxer in history to have won five divisional world championships. The boxer is known for his extremely quick reflexes with a mix of dangerous knockout blows even by going backwards. Robinson is known for his versatility, speed and could use both hands with equal efficiency.

He is historically associated with the phrase “pound for pound”. Hall of Fame fighters such as Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis consider Robinson as the greatest “pound for pound” fighter. Two times the title of “fighter of the year” made him more one of the greatest ever. In 2007, Robinson stood first on the list of “50 Greatest Boxers of All Time” by ESPN.com. Several magazines and media have listed him as one of the greatest punchers ever and as best pound to pound fighters in history. Robinson has become an inspiration to several other boxers and fighters who took his nickname “sugar” considering it as respect.

1. Mike Tyson, USA

Mike Tyson is deadly, brutal hitter, extremely fast, dangerous and powerful making him the world’s greatest boxers of all time. He became the youngest boxer to hold titles of WBA, WBC and IBF when he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days. The American boxer won his first 19 professional boxing matches by knockouts, 12 knockouts in the first round itself. He successfully defended the heavyweight championship 9 times. He holds the nicknames “Kid Dynamite”, “Iron” and “Baddest Man on the Planet”. Tyson has always been underestimated for his skills and greatness. He is known to have lost only 6 matches till now.

He is one the best heavyweights of all time. Tyson was at number 1 on ESPN.com list of “The Hardest Hitters in Heavyweight History.” Sky Sports rated him as “the scariest boxers ever” and “perhaps the most ferocious boxer to step into the professional ring”. The movie Tyson (1995) describes his biography after he became so popular in 80s and 90s.The controversial boxer is known for his comeback fights when he won the WBA and WBC titles in 1996. He became the only other boxer to have won the titles after losing it.

Special mentions:

• Joe Frazier
• Roberto Duran
• Sonny Liston
• José Ángel Nápoles
• Willie Pep
• Marcel Cerdan
• Marvelous Marvin Hagler
• Jack Dempsey