they’re the men you don’t want to meet
in the ring or on the street welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 fighters
of all time
for this list we’ve chosen the best
professional combat fighters from all
walks of life and have ranked them based
on accomplishments skill and the
likelihood that they could kick anyone’s
ass number 10 Roy Jones jr.
named the Boxing Writers Association of
America’s fighter of the decade for the
90s Jones was the first boxer to go from
light middleweight to a heavyweight
title to start his career he went thirty
four bouts without losing and even then
his first defeat was controversial with
an original style and granite chin Jones
set a record by holding seven belts
simultaneously though his dominance
decline Jones legacy was secure joining
boxing’s elite the new WBA heavyweight
champion of the world Roy Choi
the Junior
number nine fedor emelianenko
fighting uh-oh
how do you earn the nickname The Last
Emperor try going undefeated for almost
a decade longevity was his greatest
asset as was intensity stoicism and
unpredictability this Russian
heavyweight was a tough guy to knock out
or even to dominate some say he
benefited from easier opponents by
fighting for Pride FC m1 global and
affliction rather than UFC but in his
prime Emelianenko was unquestionably
king retiring with 35 wins and 40
contests number 8 Manny Pacquiao he’s
the biggest name in the game today
labeled fighter of the decade for the
2000s pac-man became the first octuple
boxing champion with 10 world titles
across 8 weight divisions after starting
his career in 1995 this Filipino fighter
rocketed through weight classes like no
one before or since mastering fancy
footwork with a stringent work ethic and
eventually becoming one of the world’s
most electrifying and highest-paid
athletes it’s the first time he’s
knocked out somebody like this since he
was at 130 pounds
number 7 George st. Pierre this
welterweight has the brains brute
strength and discipline to succeed in
the Octagon plus he’s a great MMA
ambassador GSP he’s got a solid martial
arts background with karate boxing
jujitsu wrestling and Muay Thai capping
off his skills and making him a
well-rounded fighter also known as one
of the biggest UFC pay-per-view draws
the man known as rush is still riding a
career-high I feel like a samurai you
know I train every day I work on what I
love to do until I try to reach a
perfection even though I will never be
able to reach but every day I try to get
better at what I do if I could do that
for the rest of my life I’ll be a team
number six Mike Tyson once the
undisputed World Heavyweight Champion
Iron Mike claimed victory his first 19
professional fights all by KO as the
youngest boxer to hold titles like the
WBC WBA and IBF heavyweight belts the
baddest man on the planet was dominant
and dreaded in the 80s and 90s and could
have possibly taken any guy on this list
in his prime how’d he win so much he
fought dirty oh and some nasty stuff
that neither need to be a bite or most
we focus very unhappy look at this
number five Muhammad Ali he was the
greatest and as much a personality as he
was a fighter okay don’t do we’ll get
him into if Iran will get him in one Ali
persistently trash-talked rivals and
stood up for his beliefs in the ring
this heavyweight used his height
footwork speedy fists and rope-a-dope
technique to triumph an Olympic gold
medalist and three time world champ he
ended his career with 56 wins in 61
fights and even when people called him
over the hill
Elise surprised them all
number four Joe Lewis known as one of
the greatest heavyweights to ever step
between the ropes the brown bomber
brought the sport of boxing back from a
low point with his track record of
industriousness authenticity and
powerful punching he defended his
championship title 25 times over 140
consecutive months to retire with 66
wins and 70 fights 52 coming by KO an
American icon he also represented us
athletic dominance and the fight for
integration number three Bruce Lee
we had the goods to back up his
pop-culture status powerful flexible
lightning fast and with unheard-of
stamina
he revolutionized fighting as an art
form and brought martial arts to new
levels of popularity as the founder of
Jeet Kune Do or the way of the
intercepting fist Li’s was an amalgam of
techniques but he was a street fighter
first and foremost and a warrior in the
purest sense of the word be formless
shapeless like water now you put water
into a cup it becomes the cup you put
water into a bottle it becomes the
bottle you’re putting a teapot it
becomes the teapot now water can flow or
it can crash be water my friend like
that number 2 Anderson Silva the spider
holds the UFC record for longest title
defense streak and even UFC president
white called this Brazilian the best
mixed martial artist ever known mainly
for his Muay Thai skills
he’s also got black belts in Brazilian
jiu-jitsu and judo among his many ranks
labeled one of the best pound-for-pound
fighters in history he wins fights by
knockouts submissions intimidation and
any other way he can which sometimes
gets him in trouble
Anderson Silva sang attack before we
unveil our number one pick here are a
few honorable mentions Robert I mean
who’s been in probably literally
hundreds of these John some up called
Leonard the Manito and Duran the boat
back told you skills are very underrated
as a boxer so to zero we sit down
this is actually where Mexican lost the
bill number one Sugar Ray Robinson cited
by many as history’s greatest boxer
Robinson is the man for whom the
pound-for-pound rankings were created
Sugar Ray met the fiercest competition
going and simply accomplished more than
anyone else on this list with 173 wins
in two hundred fights
108 by knockout his looks charm and
showmanship blended with speed footwork
a rock-hard shin and ambidextrous ko
skills to ensure that Sugar Ray was the
total package do you agree with our list
that ething who do you think is the
greatest fighter of all time don’t think
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panics over there they are they put
their arms around each other Sugar Ray
Robinson being escorted to his corner by
Randolph Turpin
you
in the ring or on the street welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 fighters
of all time
for this list we’ve chosen the best
professional combat fighters from all
walks of life and have ranked them based
on accomplishments skill and the
likelihood that they could kick anyone’s
ass number 10 Roy Jones jr.
named the Boxing Writers Association of
America’s fighter of the decade for the
90s Jones was the first boxer to go from
light middleweight to a heavyweight
title to start his career he went thirty
four bouts without losing and even then
his first defeat was controversial with
an original style and granite chin Jones
set a record by holding seven belts
simultaneously though his dominance
decline Jones legacy was secure joining
boxing’s elite the new WBA heavyweight
champion of the world Roy Choi
the Junior
number nine fedor emelianenko
fighting uh-oh
how do you earn the nickname The Last
Emperor try going undefeated for almost
a decade longevity was his greatest
asset as was intensity stoicism and
unpredictability this Russian
heavyweight was a tough guy to knock out
or even to dominate some say he
benefited from easier opponents by
fighting for Pride FC m1 global and
affliction rather than UFC but in his
prime Emelianenko was unquestionably
king retiring with 35 wins and 40
contests number 8 Manny Pacquiao he’s
the biggest name in the game today
labeled fighter of the decade for the
2000s pac-man became the first octuple
boxing champion with 10 world titles
across 8 weight divisions after starting
his career in 1995 this Filipino fighter
rocketed through weight classes like no
one before or since mastering fancy
footwork with a stringent work ethic and
eventually becoming one of the world’s
most electrifying and highest-paid
athletes it’s the first time he’s
knocked out somebody like this since he
was at 130 pounds
number 7 George st. Pierre this
welterweight has the brains brute
strength and discipline to succeed in
the Octagon plus he’s a great MMA
ambassador GSP he’s got a solid martial
arts background with karate boxing
jujitsu wrestling and Muay Thai capping
off his skills and making him a
well-rounded fighter also known as one
of the biggest UFC pay-per-view draws
the man known as rush is still riding a
career-high I feel like a samurai you
know I train every day I work on what I
love to do until I try to reach a
perfection even though I will never be
able to reach but every day I try to get
better at what I do if I could do that
for the rest of my life I’ll be a team
number six Mike Tyson once the
undisputed World Heavyweight Champion
Iron Mike claimed victory his first 19
professional fights all by KO as the
youngest boxer to hold titles like the
WBC WBA and IBF heavyweight belts the
baddest man on the planet was dominant
and dreaded in the 80s and 90s and could
have possibly taken any guy on this list
in his prime how’d he win so much he
fought dirty oh and some nasty stuff
that neither need to be a bite or most
we focus very unhappy look at this
number five Muhammad Ali he was the
greatest and as much a personality as he
was a fighter okay don’t do we’ll get
him into if Iran will get him in one Ali
persistently trash-talked rivals and
stood up for his beliefs in the ring
this heavyweight used his height
footwork speedy fists and rope-a-dope
technique to triumph an Olympic gold
medalist and three time world champ he
ended his career with 56 wins in 61
fights and even when people called him
over the hill
Elise surprised them all
number four Joe Lewis known as one of
the greatest heavyweights to ever step
between the ropes the brown bomber
brought the sport of boxing back from a
low point with his track record of
industriousness authenticity and
powerful punching he defended his
championship title 25 times over 140
consecutive months to retire with 66
wins and 70 fights 52 coming by KO an
American icon he also represented us
athletic dominance and the fight for
integration number three Bruce Lee
we had the goods to back up his
pop-culture status powerful flexible
lightning fast and with unheard-of
stamina
he revolutionized fighting as an art
form and brought martial arts to new
levels of popularity as the founder of
Jeet Kune Do or the way of the
intercepting fist Li’s was an amalgam of
techniques but he was a street fighter
first and foremost and a warrior in the
purest sense of the word be formless
shapeless like water now you put water
into a cup it becomes the cup you put
water into a bottle it becomes the
bottle you’re putting a teapot it
becomes the teapot now water can flow or
it can crash be water my friend like
that number 2 Anderson Silva the spider
holds the UFC record for longest title
defense streak and even UFC president
white called this Brazilian the best
mixed martial artist ever known mainly
for his Muay Thai skills
he’s also got black belts in Brazilian
jiu-jitsu and judo among his many ranks
labeled one of the best pound-for-pound
fighters in history he wins fights by
knockouts submissions intimidation and
any other way he can which sometimes
gets him in trouble
Anderson Silva sang attack before we
unveil our number one pick here are a
few honorable mentions Robert I mean
who’s been in probably literally
hundreds of these John some up called
Leonard the Manito and Duran the boat
back told you skills are very underrated
as a boxer so to zero we sit down
this is actually where Mexican lost the
bill number one Sugar Ray Robinson cited
by many as history’s greatest boxer
Robinson is the man for whom the
pound-for-pound rankings were created
Sugar Ray met the fiercest competition
going and simply accomplished more than
anyone else on this list with 173 wins
in two hundred fights
108 by knockout his looks charm and
showmanship blended with speed footwork
a rock-hard shin and ambidextrous ko
skills to ensure that Sugar Ray was the
total package do you agree with our list
that ething who do you think is the
greatest fighter of all time don’t think
be for more top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
panics over there they are they put
their arms around each other Sugar Ray
Robinson being escorted to his corner by
Randolph Turpin
you
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