This is the final installment in the “Top 10 by Decade Ranking Experiment”, where we have utilized Ring Magazine’s rich archive of historical rankings in order to try and objectively determine the top 10 boxers from each weight class in each decade.
The 1950s was a magical time in boxing history, in large part because of the rise of television. At the conclusion of 1952 approximately 19 million homes had a TV set, and by the end of the decade, that number had ballooned to more than 46 million.
There was a lot of big drama surrounding the highly visible negotiation process between the camps of middleweight elites Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.
At long last, the Top 100 Grand Finale is here! The finale episode of the Top 10 by Decade Ranking Experiment has all been building up to this moment where we count down the top 100 boxers under this scoring system.
Trying to rank boxers across different eras is a difficult task, but that is what we have been trying to do here.
Trying to rank boxers across different eras is a difficult task, but it can also usually be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been the case, and will continue to be the case, with these ongoing rankings experiments where we attempt to rank the best boxers from each weight class across different decades.
On Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. Alongside the president were actor Sylvester Stallone, best known for playing Rocky Balboa, and also present were former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and reigning WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.
Trying to rank boxers across different eras is a difficult task, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been the case (and will continue to be the case) with these ongoing rankings experiments where we attempt to rank the best boxers from each weight class across different decades.
On Saturday night, WBA lightweight world champion Jorge Linares put his belt on the line against former two-division world champion and former two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Vasyl Lomachenko.
On Saturday night, unified WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion of the world Gennady Golovkin(38-0-1, 34 KOs) successfully defended the WBA/WBC versions of his belts when he defeated Vanes Martirosyan (36-4-1, 21 KOs) by brutal second round knockout.