# The 11 Greatest Light Heavyweight Boxers of All Time

> The 175-pound division has produced hall of famers and long-reigning champions, and the order is hard to settle between eras.

*By YPB Team · Published October 22, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-11-greatest-light-heavyweight-boxers-of-all-time*

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1. **Roy Jones Jr.** — score 1000/1000
   Pensacola champion who won light heavyweight titles in the 1990s and later won a heavyweight title.
2. **Antonio Tarver** — score 839/1000
   Florida southpaw who beat Roy Jones Jr. in 2004.
3. **Mike McCallum** — score 732/1000
   Jamaican boxer who won the WBC light heavyweight title in 1994.
4. **Canelo Álvarez** — score 599/1000
   Mexican star who won the WBO light heavyweight title with an 11th-round knockout of Sergey Kovalev in 2019.
5. **Michael Spinks** — score 599/1000
   Light heavyweight champion who became the first to win the heavyweight title by beating Larry Holmes.
6. **Archie Moore** — score 0/1000
   Light heavyweight champion who held the title for nearly a decade and scored 131 knockouts in his career.
7. **Bernard Hopkins** — score 0/1000
   Philadelphia boxer who won light heavyweight titles in his late 40s.
8. **Dariusz Michalczewski** — score 0/1000
   Polish champion who held the WBO light heavyweight title for nine years.
9. **Sergey Kovalev** — score 0/1000
   Russian puncher who held light heavyweight titles in the 2010s and lost to Canelo Álvarez in 2019.
10. **Ezzard Charles** — score 0/1000
   Cincinnati boxer and rival of Archie Moore who later won the heavyweight title.
11. **Tommy Loughran** — score 0/1000
   Philadelphia boxer who held the light heavyweight title in the late 1920s.

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