In some countries one can get it down to two or three of that country’s best boxers except in the USA it’s numerous. Two-division champion “Sugar” Ray Robinson with 174 wins could be the best P4P boxer of all-time. Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis could be the best Heavyweight champion of all time. 3-time Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali would certainly be the most colorful and one who did as much for boxing as anyone in modern times. Some others are multi-division champion Henry “Homicide Hank” Armstrong with 152 wins, Benny “The Ghetto Wizard” Leonard with 185 wins, Heavyweight champ Jack “Galveston Giant” Johnson, Harry “Pittsburgh Windmill” Greb with 262 wins, 2-division world champion Mickey “Toy Bulldog” Walker, multi-division and Olympic champion “Sugar” Ray Leonard, Willie “Will o’ the Whisp” Pep with 229 wins, Welterweight champion Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns and heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano (49-0).

Mexico has had great fighters like 3-division world champion Julio Cesar Chavez, 2-division world champion Ricardo Lopez, 51-0-1, Salvatore “Chava” Sanchez, 54-1-1, multi-division world champion Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez, 56-7-1, Cuban born Jose “Mantequilla” Napoles, 81-7, Carlos Zarate, 66-4 (63 ko’s), Marco Antonio “Baby Faced Assassin”Barrera, 67-7 and Ruben Olivares, 89-13-3 (79 ko’s).

In Central America 3-division world champion Alexis “Thin Man” Arguello, 77-8, of Nicaragua and Multi-division world champion Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran, 103-16, of Panama certainly stand out! In South America there was Pascual Perez, 84-7-1, world Flyweight champion and Olympic champion from Argentina. Other greats from Argentina are Middleweight champion Carlos “Escopeta” Monzon, 87-3-9, heavyweight Luis Angel “El Toro Salvaje de las Pampas” Firpo, 31-6 (known for battle w/Jack Dempsey) and 2-division world champion Omar “El Huracan” Narvaez, 49-4-2, with his 27 title defenses. Light Welterweight champion Nicolino “El Intocable” Loche was another great champion having a 117-4-14, record.

From Venezuela Edwin Valero, 27-0 (27), 2-division champion and died an early age of 28. Antonio Cervantes, 91-12-3, from Colombia was a great champion. Possibly one of the best was 2-division world champion Eder Jofre, 72-2-4, from Brazil.

From Canada there was Sam “Boston Bonecrusher” Langford, 211-43-52, 2-division world champion George “Little Chocolate” Dixon, 75-32-61, and heavyweight champion Tommy Burns, 47-4-8, and who can forget George Chuvalo, 73-18-2? Puerto Rico had Lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz, 61-7-1, 3-division champion Wilfredo Benitez, 53-8-1, 4-division champion Miguel Cotto, 41-6, Felix “Tito” Trinidad, 42-3, and 3-division champion Wilfredo “Bazooka” Gomez, 44-3-1. In Cuba there were welterweight champions Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan, 108-30-5, along with Luis Manual Rodriguez, 107-13, world junior lightweight champion Kid “Cuban Bon Bon” Chocolate, 136-10-6, and 3-time Gold Medal Olympian Heavyweight Teofilio Stevenson.

In Africa there was Ghana’s 2-division world champion Azuma “The Professor” Nelson, 38-6-2, Nigeria’s 2-division world champion Dick Tiger, 60-19-3, South Africa’s Willie Toweel, 46-6-2. In the Philippines there was World Flyweight champion Pancho Villa, 77-4-4, World Super Featherweight champion Gabriel “Flash” Elorde, 89-7-2, Multi-world champion Manny “Pac Man” Pacquaio, 62-7-2, Multi-division world champion Nonito Donaire, 40-6. From the Virgin Island’s there was 2-division world champion Emile Griffith, 85-24-2, and 2-division world champion Julian “The Hawk” Jackson, 55-6.

The UK covering Scotland, Wales and Ireland there were Ted “Kid” Lewis with 192-32-14, World Flyweight champion Jimmy “The Mighty Atom” Wilde with 131-3-1 record, 2-division world champion “Terrible” Terry McGovern, 60-4-3, Super Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, 46-0 and Olympic Gold Medalist heavyweight champion Lennox “The Lion” Lewis, 41-2-1. In Australia there was World Light Welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu, 31-2, World Featherweight champion Johnny Famechon, 56-5-6, Dave Sands, 87-10-1 (died at 26) and 3-division champion Jeff Fenech, 29-3-1. Japan had 2-division world champion Fighting Harada, 55-7, and World Super Featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama, 24-2-1. In Thailand there’s World Flyweight champion Pone Kingpetch, 28-7, World Flyweight champion Amnat Ruenroeng, 20-3, World Super Flyweight champion Khaosai Galaxy, 47-1, current World Minimum champion Chayaphon Moonsri, 54-0.

In the Ukraine today we have 2-time Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-division world champion Vasiliy “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko, 14-1, and heavyweight champions Vitali “Doctor Ironfist” Klitschko, 45-2, and his brother Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko, 64-5. Russia had heavyweight champion Nicolai “The Giant Russian” Valuev, 50-2, and current former Light Heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev, 34-3-1. Kazakhstan has World Middleweight champion Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin, 40-1-1. In Germany there was World Heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, 56-10-4, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Light Heavyweight champion Henry “Gentleman” Maske, 31-1, and Gustav “Bubi” Scholz, 88-2-1. Hungary had 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Laszlo Papp, 27-0-2. France had World Light Heavyweight champion Georges “The Orchid Man” Carpentier, 91-14-6, and World Middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan, 110-4.