Top 10 Cruiserweights by Decade

Top 10 Cruiserweights by decade
Top 10 by Decade: Part 2 Cruiserweights
A ranking experiment which attempts to objectively rank the best cruiserweight boxers across different decades starting from the 1990s.
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[@agusharmawan1354]

Do you know that in the first time in history, all 4 belts from the cruiserweight division will belong proudly around the waist of 1 man

[@mesharialghamdi3005]

Agus Harmawan I know it’s a joke but every time I hear that I can’t help but get hyped because I’m seeing it live.

[@johndawhale3197]

All Anal beads will be hanging out the rear end of one man when Whyte fights Browne.

[@donhoyt7518]

No who ❤

[@LaurenceGill2000]

Loving this upload frequency Rummy.

[@mynameismyname6830]

Hopefully he does a welterweight and middle weight video too :p

[@yungfelix17]

Thanks for showing cruiserweight some love! Very overlooked weightless, yet arguably the most talent rich in all of boxing

[@bigppgamer69]

Hey rummy can you do this same video so i can see how high oleksandr usyk was

[@billybob9961]

Great video please keep them coming

[@alvalankerofficial]

Thank you for this amazing content, Rummy, I can't get enough!

[@Dottor_J]

Love this series!!

[@tonyd8605]

Love your intellectual analysis of the sport. lookin forward to your future videos!

[@paulmcbride9139]

Really enjoying this series! Rummy,FYI, the reason why the division wasn't part of "The Ring" rankings for a few years in the late 80's was because the magazine took a hard stance against the sanctioning bodies in two ways. 1)Only recognize one champion,and where possible, it's the lineal champion. That's why they didn't consider Tyson to be the champion until he beat Spinks. 2)Revert to the 8 traditional weight classes. This meant that the cruisers got rolled into the heavyweight rankings. You'll see the same thing when you reach divisions like super middle, super welter etc.

[@bsklasika]

this is very interesting. really, when anyone thinks of best Cruiserweights Holyfield, Toney and Haye usually are the first names called.

[@JT-jb4mr]

Usyk

[@MrChillidee]

Nice one Rummy loving your analysis.....🥊

[@leonsilcock424]

Great series hope it continues

[@hrdcrnwo]

Thank you for your videos, Rummy. I'm a casual boxing fan but very interested in the history, and your videos are awesome and informative. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@jahimuddin2306]

Are you still a casual two years later? I am just getting into boxing now.

[@Alphaflight912]

Just subscribed. Well done Vids. Very detailed. A+

[@thaddcorbett2148]

You're the best Rummy! You tell it like it is and you've got an awesome voice!

[@ak-9295]

Great work rummy.

[@dodge1724]

Brilliant series - adding to my boxing education

[@SickBoy666100]

This is a pretty awesome channel

[@georgegoddiess9173]

solid vid. I agree with your belief on the cruiserweight division being a stop on the road for future heavyweights. I always felt if they created a super heavy division it would do the same to heavyweight

[@robertdecker4780]

Such an ignored division. Used to be 176-190,then it went to 195,then 200. I remember they had junior Cruiserweight for a certain period, and I think they even had super Cruiserweight, back when regular cw only went up to 190. 176-200 really is a heck of a range though, as is a 205 lb small heavyweight fighting a 250 lb'er.

[@johncollins7423]

You are correct, there was a Super Cruiserweight division for a brief time, but it never really caught on. It's minimum was 191 lbs., with a maximum weight limit of 210 lbs. The Big 4 (WBA, WBC, IBF & WBO) didn't sanction this division, so the IBO was the sole sanctioning body that had a championship in that weight class.

[@Rockstar-bq5fm]

Now this is were things are gonna get confusing with the weight jumping guys you think should be number 1 may not do to the fact they might not have campaigned there for very long still this is a great series and thank you so much for doing the Cruiserweights it's my favourite division and are so criminally underrated it's a shame... nice one rummy

[@isaactrio]

so excited when there is a new rummy thumbnail

[@sarty23]

Rummy. Is this your real voice or not? You speak so fluidly and every pronounciation is so perfect!

[@michaeljones3802]

The words “objective” and “Ring Magazine” don’t go together.

[@Edicater121]

no david haye in the 2000s?

[@UraSausauge]

He explained in the vid

[@hammerhead222]

You should do a video on Craig Bodzianowski. If you think it would be warranted.

[@georgegoddiess9173]

really loved the bell vs mormeck first fight. I til this day feel open scoring by the wbc ruined the later rounds of the fight

[@niemaszglowy]

boxing fans in Poland have a little laugh at Włodarczyk being ranked #1 lol he is not that good.

[@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi]

Tough bastard though.

[@raymondgirardtan4978]

That odd gap in the Ring rankings would have left out the peak years of Evander Holyfield.

[@RMAGEDN740]

I wish this division would grab mainstream attention. Size-wise, i think it could be one of the most exciting. They can be knockout artist, but still maintain enough athleticism to be able to have good footwork, head movement, and stamina. Look at the guys who left or skipped cruiserweight for the hwd. If cruiserweight could keep talent like them, it would probably be the most exciting division in boxing, and it would also bring some light heavyweights up, too. Imagine - michael spinks vs evander holyfield at cruiserweight; roy jones jr vs james toney rematch at cruiserweight around 2002-2003; david haye vs oleksander usyk passing of the torch at cruiserweight. Instead, we see talented guys leaving, and shorthanding themselves, because they're not natural heavyweights.

[@tempestvideos9834]

Many people out there need a summary of Cruiserweights. I am now not one of them.

[@humbledragger6411]

lol judging by this list you wouldn’t have guessed that Usyk would go on to collect the infinity gauntlet at cruiser and heavyweight. He looking like an all time great in 2024

[@johnyboxingchannel]

Anaclet wamba and my trainer was train together In the earlier 90s

[@brandonsowdagore2717]

Do a middleweight one. That's a history rich division

[@themartialartist1929]

Cool

[@JoseVera20]

I can't wait for Usyk to challenge the top Heavyweights soon. I don't see him fighting Wilder or Joshua just yet but I'm sure he could give guys like Ortiz, Parker, Pulev, and Jarell Miller good fights

[@johndawhale3197]

He beats all the top Heavy's except Wilder...

[@jsquire5pa]

@@johndawhale3197 not fury

[@christophercoey7804]

Johnny Nelson was Cruiserweight champion for 13 titles defences going unbeaten as WBO champion for 7 and a half years, but he still doesn't get high on the list lmao. Yet guys like Steve Cunningham who were win one lose one fighters are rated Number 2 - this is cRaZy and says a lot about the bias of Ring magazine's rating system. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk is the same except this has him at number 1 lol. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk managed 6 defences over 3 years - how does that compare to 13 titles defences over 7 and a half years? Yet Nelson is down in 9th??? This system has massive flaws. 1 It is based too much on longlevity 2 It doesn't take into account how good anyone you beat actually is lol 3 It doesn't take into account how good any one was who beat you or how many loses you have lol 4 It is based upon Ring Magazine's highly bias ratings. 5 The timing of the Rating choice is also arbitary - all the ratings and positions change if you looks at monthly results rather than end of year for instance. 6 It has cut offs per decade which is arbitary. It means if you were briliant for ten years, but that ten years goes between two decades - you're punnished over and above lesser fighters who simply operated in one decade. 7 It adds no weight or consideration to guys that unify some or all of the belts. Worse yet it adds no weight to clearing out the entire division. The best Cruiserweights for me are: 1 Evander Holyfield 2 Oleksandr Usyk 3 David Haye 4 Carlos de Leon 5 Johnny Nelson 6 Mairis Briedis 7 Marco Huck 8 Jean-Marc Mormeck 9 Juan Carlos Gomez 10 Denis Lebedev Outside of the top 5 you can make all kinds of cases for fighters such is the often transitory station and stopping point of the Cruiserweight division, but the above is my list. Guys like James Toney don't get in because they were one amazing fight, one terrible performance kind of guys, we remember the great fights and tend to forget the really bad performances, also he jumped up weights so quick that it is far easier to be kinder to the likes of Toney on a P4P list. There are amazing guys that came in a won a world title and then straight away shipped out to heavy...I can't really pull for those guys, again although longveivty should NOT be the sole criteria, it does have to be a factor to some degree. You can't just say a guy was one of the best Cruiserwights because he turned out to be a great heavy (though if unbeaten or his record was great, I think you can know more and rate a guy a little higher if he does great at heavy - it can tell you more about character, chin etc), or because his later proved to be top notch elsewhere.

[@janispirvics81]

Where Mairis Briedis is ?

[@WCamden]

No haye? What you smoking

[@bryanrodriguez9226]

How come you didn’t put Dwight muhamed quawi

[@SuperRayrobinson]

Greatest Cruiser of all time is not on this list. The real deal...

[@hoodrichs9953]

It will be me soon

[@Godisgood-mm3tr]

Hes more natural heavyweight

[@frankmachin5438]

SuperRayrobinson No more appropriate fight name was ever bestowed upon a pugilist....

[@robertkulikowski6380]

Usyk is Goat in cruiser. Even better than Holyfield

[@1969JohnnyM]

I never understand why cruiserweight isn't more popular as the fights by and large tend to be battles more often than not. With modern weight draining and putting it back on before the bout its basically a division that has men who are the same size as the heavyweight division from the time when it had men the size of Joe Louis, Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier or Muhammad Ali and bigger than Dempsey, Tunney and Walcott or Patterson.

[@hassanigourna]

Gassiev is a little smaller than Usyk, maybe he'll hang around at Cruiser

[@1969JohnnyM]

Lebedev should be ahead of Huck, he beat him but got robbed in a German hometown decision.

[@KodziroHyuga]

wlodarczyk hehehehehehe o kurwa....i shit myself :DDDDD

[@kc1973able]

Rummys the BEST! Guys knows his stuff

[@RealJRoyall]

Maybe the most underrated division in boxing?

[@robertdecker4780]

Yeah, CW(176-200) and also the really small people divisions. Straw weight(105), Jr flyweight(108),the standard regular Flyweight division(112), and the Super Flyweight division(115).

[@cjns5253]

Mormeck never gets the credit he deserves he beat Virgil hill twice who was WBA champion when mormeck beat him he also had 2 gr8 fights with Oneil bell lost the first in a epic war then got revenge in the second fight he also beat contenders like Alexander Gurov and dale brown who were the best contenders at the time and lastly he fought Haye and put Haye down heavily

[@TheBobes]

I think the list is ruined by the fact that almost all Cruiserweight stars jump to HW - as stated in the video - and doesn't actually show us which boxers were "the best" in each decade. Imho this is simply because there's more money to be made in the HW.

[@ZBOXINGTALK]

IMO Haye at Cruiserweight between 06-08 was unbeatable, should've moved back after the fight with Wladimir

[@Kungs.]

Marco Huck at N0.1 lol. Rankings are nonsense. Huck fought bums for most of his career. Usyk is no.1, Briedis no.2. Both these guys easily beat Huck.

[@LorolinAstori]

The division should not exist.

[@diguidiannomoko1252]

Do 147

[@rojojr]

Wow I forgot how historically crapy the Crusierweight division was

[@robertdecker4780]

I remember back in 1980,when CW was a newly formed weight division, in one of my boxing magazines seeing Carlos DeLeon and this native american cruiserweight by the name of Marvin Camel. It was the first publicized big showdown of the CW's.

[@AKhanboxing]

i consider myself a big boxing fan, but I literally nothing about the cruiserweight division and had only heard of like 2 boxers from this list

[@rosshampton3483]

Carl 'the cat' Thompson beat David Haye in an absolute slugfest..check i tout Rummy..well worth a look

[@rosshampton3483]

PS Jonny Nelson was the most negative boxer ever to enter the ring..watched this guy 4 times undercards for Prince Naz back in the 90's.

[@badmonting3542]

Steve Cunningham no1

[@lifeisblessed4802]

Holyfield is the greastest cruiser then probably Usyk

[@flashrabbit9]

Why Holyfield over usyk

[@flashrabbit9]

This least interesting weight class in boxing 🥊