Ring Magazine\'s list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years

In 2002, Ring Magazine published a list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years in boxing, as voted by the magazine's writers. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Ring (often called Ring Magazine) is an American Boxing Magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight,

Various criteria were used for the voting: what percentage of fights by each boxer resulted as knockout wins, how many knockouts and knockout streaks each boxer had, what important rivals he knocked out during his career, and who he couldn't knock out.

List of boxing's all time best fighters, as deemed by Ring's writers:

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Interview with Bert Randolph Sugar about his book Boxing's Greatest Fighters, Lindenhurst Memorial Library: BookTalk

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Wilfredo Gómez (born October 29, 1956) is a former boxer and three time world champion Bob Foster (born December 15, 1938) is a native of Albuquerque New Mexico, USA whom many Boxing critics consider to be one of the greatest José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla ("Butter" (born April 13, 1940) is a Cuban former world Welterweight Boxing William David Conn ( October 8, 1917 – May 29, 1993) better known in the Boxing world as Billy Conn, was a Light-Heavyweight James Archibald "Jimmy" McLarnin ( December 19 1907 &ndash October 28 2004) was a Canadian two-time Welterweight Pancho Villa ( August 1, 1901 - July 14, 1925) was the nome de guerre by which the legendary Filipino Flyweight Carlos Ortiz (born September 9, 1936) is a Puerto Rican who was a three time world Boxing Bob Montgomery was an American boxer from Philadelphia. He was born in South Carolina. Freddie Miller was an American boxer from Cincinnati. Freddie Miller was one of the very best Featherweight boxers of the 1930s and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Benny Lynch ( April 2, 1913 &ndash August 6, 1946) is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the Lightweight division Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, ( April 1 1921 &ndash February 9 2000) was an American Lightweight Azumah Nelson (born September 19, 1958) is a former boxer and three-time world champion Eusebio Pedroza (born 1953) is a native of Panama who holds two records in Boxing: His 19 defenses as world Featherweight champion are a record Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958, in Memphis, raised in Detroit) is an American 8-time world champion professional Wilfred Benitez (born September 12, 1958 in New York New York) is a Puerto Rican boxer. Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé (born in San Basilio de Palenque, Bolivar on December 23, 1945) is a Colombian Boxing Ricardo “El Finito” Lopez Nava (born July 25, 1967) is a boxer from Mexico. Charles L "Sonny" Liston (May 8 1932?–January 5 1971 was a professional boxer who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd A 5'3" Southpaw, Vicente Saldivar was a dynamo in the ring Gene Fullmer (born July 21, 1931) is a former American Middleweight boxer. Oscar de la Hoya (ˈɒskər dɛlə ˈhɔɪə (born February 4 1973 &mdash nicknamed "The Golden Boy" &mdash is an Mexican American boxer Carlos Zarate Serna (born May 23, 1951) in Tepito, Distrito Federal, Mexico, and better known in the World of Boxing Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan ( July 22, 1916 &ndash October 27, 1949) was a French Pied noir world Gabriel "Flash" Elorde ( March 25, 1935 – January 2, 1985) is widely considered as one of the greatest Filipino Mike McCallum (born December 7, 1956 in Kingston Jamaica) is a retired boxer from Jamaica who held world titles in several weight classes Harold Johnson (born August 9, 1928, in Manayunk Pennsylvania) was a professional boxer.