User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/Michael's question of the day part 7/@comment-4745396-20111018194511

Time for me to add my top 10 Boxing P4P of all time :) through my personal opinion of what I have seen and read :)

1. SRR - Goes without saying really. Ali's hero and as close to a perfect boxer as you could get. Could box going forward, box on the defense, could knock you out with both hands too, had brilliant handspeed. The greatest Welterweight of all time. Also one of the greatest Middleweight's of all time too. If it wasn't for heat exhaustion, he would have won the Light Heavyweight title too.

2. Muhammad Ali - In my opinion, the greatest heavyweight of all time. My dream fight would have been Ali vs Louis, and as great as Louis was, I think Ali would have been the only Heavyweight to take him to Boxing school, too much speed and too crafty and he would not have been there for Louis to hit. Because of his 3 year time off from the ring due to the Vietnam fiasco, many people think we never ever saw the best of Ali and his prime would have been in those 3 years. Just everything about the man, both in and outside the ring, he is a credit to all African Americans and Muslims around the world :) 3. Henry Armstrong - Held the World title from Featherweight, Lightweight and Welterweight at the same time, at a time when there was one world title to a weight and only 8 weight classes. SRR's hero and SRR hated fighting him.

4. Sugar Ray Leonard - We all know how great Ray was. Had wins over Bentiez, Duran, Hearns and Hagler. Won world titles in 5 divisions.

5. Willie Pep - The greatest Featherweight of all time, and the greatest defensive fighter of all time. Reported won a round without throwing a punch, but that is disputed. Only had 11 losses in 241 fights.

6. Roberto Duran - As mentioned above, the best Lightweight of all time. Not a brawler like many people think, but had an attractive attacking style, which was very effective, as he used to place his punches, rather then throw punches for the sake of throwing punches.

7. Joe Louis - 2nd best Heavyweight of all time in my opinion. 25 successful title defenses, which is still a record in any weight class. Reason he is not the best Heavyweight of all time for me is, Ali fought in a much better era, beat better fighters then Louis did. The "Bum of the Month" quote came around in the Louis era, cause he fought some real stiffs in title defences, but his resume of title defences is not worst the Marciano's.

8. Pernell Whitaker - Now many people never mention him, but I always do for the simple reason he is one the greatest fighters of the modern era. One of the greatest defensive fighters of all time too. Whitaker lost four times, and 2 of them were by robberies. He was robbed 3 times in his career. The first fight with Ramirez, the draw with Chavez, who I think Pernell would have beat 100 times out of 100 if they fought a hundred times and the loss to De La Hoya. Four weight world champion, and his only real loss came to Felix Trinidad, when Pernell was a cokehead and past his prime.

9.Julio Cesar Chavez - I have to add him in the top 10, despite my personal thoughts about him. I do not like this man and never did, but he was a great fighter, something Chavez haters like me can never take away from him. A six time world champion in three weight divisions, like Duran he was an effective attacking fighter, and placed his punches rather then go all guns blazing, a brilliant body puncher too. His best performance, was his fight against Edwin Rosario.

10. Sam Langford - Now a lot of people will think who? But this guy is the greatest fighter not a lot of people know, and the greatest fighter to have never won a World title. One of the greatest punchers of all time too. Started as a Lightweight and fought all the way up to Heavyweight.