Top 10-15 Featherweights?

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  1. George Crowcroft

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    What say you? Particularly interested in Buj's lists.
     
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    Pep
    Attell
    McGovern
    Kilbane
    Sanchez
    Dixon
    Saldivar
    Driscoll
    Saddler
    Casanova
    Arizmendi
    Dundee

    There’s 12. Guys like Armstrong, Pacquiao, Miller, Nelson, Arguello, etc. are harder to rate. as they fought and arguably peaked elsewhere.
     
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    #15. Jim Driscoll
    #14. Freddie Miller
    #13. Ernesto Marcel
    #12. Terry McGovern
    #11. Johnny Dundee
    #10. Baby Casanova
    #09. Young Corbett II
    #08. Johnny Kilbane
    #07. Eusebio Pedroza
    #06. George Dixon
    #05. Salvador Sanchez
    #04. Abe Attell
    #03. Vicente Salvidar
    #02. Sandy Saddler
    #01. Willie Pep

    Guys like Arguello, Nelson, etc; were considered as well.
     
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    Pedroza....
     
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    These lists suffer from a serious lack of Battling Battalino. :old1:
     
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    Good call. One of the most polarizing fighters I’ve ever studied. And by polarizing, I don’t mean the differences in opinion between different groups of people. I’m just referring to how widely contrasting my own personal views of him have been over the years.

    I’ve gone from considering him for a spot among the top 100 greats of boxing history to rating him as merely a highly talented journeyman.
     
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    I'm sort of inbetween. I think he's a great little fighter, but not great enough to make my list.
     
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