Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time

In 2003, Ring Magazine published a list of 100 greatest punchers of all time in boxing, as voted by the magazine's writers.

Various criteria was used for the voting, more specifically, what percentage of fights by each boxer resulted as knockout wins, how many knockouts and knockout streaks each boxer had, what important rivals they knocked out during their careers, and who they couldn't knockout.

List of boxing's all time greatest punchers, as deemed by Ring's writers:

  1. Joe Louis
  2. Sam Langford
  3. Jimmy Wilde
  4. Archie Moore
  5. Sandy Saddler
  6. Stanley Ketchel
  7. Jack Dempsey
  8. Bob Fitzsimmons
  9. George Foreman
  10. Earnie Shavers
  11. Sugar Ray Robinson
  12. Ruben Olivares
  13. Wilfredo Gómez
  14. Rocky Marciano
  15. Sonny Liston
  16. Mike Tyson
  17. Bob Foster
  18. Thomas Hearns
  19. Khaosai Galaxy
  20. Alexis Arguello
  21. Carlos Zarate
  22. Max Baer
  23. Rocky Graziano
  24. Matthew Saad Muhammad
  25. Julian Jackson
  26. Danny Lopez
  27. Gerald McClellan
  28. Roberto Duran
  29. Rodrigo Valdez
  30. Félix Trinidad
  31. Jose Cuevas
  32. Jim Jeffries
  33. Lennox Lewis
  34. Bennie Briscoe
  35. Marvin Hagler
  36. Edwin Rosario
  37. Tommy Ryan
  38. John Mugabi
  39. Joe Frazier
  40. Carlos Monzon
  41. Tony Zale
  42. Michael Spinks
  43. Joe Gans
  44. Elmer Ray
  45. George Godfrey
  46. Naseem Hamed
  47. Alfonso Zamora
  48. David Tua
  49. Cleveland Williams
  50. Julio Cesar Chavez
  51. Tiger Jack Fox
  52. Joe Walcott
  53. Gerry Cooney
  54. Al Bummy Davis
  55. Max Schmeling
  56. Florentino Fernandez
  57. Henry Armstrong
  58. Bob Satterfield
  59. Al Hostak
  60. Jesus Pimentel
  61. Eugene Hart
  62. Lew Jenkins
  63. Harry Wills
  64. Tom Sharkey
  65. Terry McGovern
  66. Jersey Joe Walcott
  67. Kostya Tszyu
  68. Leotis Martin
  69. Buddy Baer
  70. Donovan Ruddock
  71. Jose Luis Ramirez
  72. Tommy Gómez
  73. Jose Napoles
  74. Kid McCoy
  75. Antonio Esparragoza
  76. Ricardo Moreno
  77. Evander Holyfield
  78. Ike Williams
  79. Luis Firpo
  80. Ricardo Lopez
  81. Humberto Gonzalez
  82. Bobby Chacon
  83. Jock McAvoy
  84. Eduardo Lause
  85. Eder Jofre
  86. Charley Burley
  87. Mike McCallum
  88. Salvador Sánchez
  89. Roy Jones Jr.
  90. Rodolfo Gonzalez
  91. Nigel Benn
  92. Irish Bob Murphy
  93. Paul Berlenbach
  94. Battling Torres
  95. Chalky Wright
  96. George Chaney
  97. Andy Ganigan
  98. Fred Fulton
  99. Ingemar Johansson
  100. Charley White

As usual, some debate rose among fans concerning this list: many wondered, for example, why wasn't Aaron Pryor, who scored 35 knockouts in 40 fights and beat #20 Alexis Arguello twice by knockout, included. Others wondered why were Edwin Rosario (#36) and Danny Lopez (#26), placed higher than some of their conquerors, in Rosario's case, Julio Cesar Chavez (#50) and Jose Luis Ramirez (#71). In Lopez's case, Bobby Chacon (#82) and Salvador Sánchez (#88).

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