This is my countdown of the top 5 best Flyweights in Boxing history. Despite having good resumes Frankie Genaro and Fidel LaBarba missed out due to the lack of available footage. There are at least 6 other fighters who could have easily made the cut as the Flyweight division has always been competitive in terms of it's top 10. 1. Jimmy Wilde - Was a Welsh professional boxer and world boxing champion. He was the first official World Flyweight Champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest flyweight boxer ever." Wilde earned various nicknames such as, "The Mighty Atom," "Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand" and "The Tylorstown Terror." 2. Pancho Villa - Was a Filipino professional boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch (154 cm) tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds (51 kg), despite the racial discrimination of that time, rose from obscurity to win as the first Asian World Flyweight Championship in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as "one of the greatest Asian/Filipino fighters in boxing history." He was never knocked out in his entire boxing career, which ended with his sudden death at the age of 23 from complications following a tooth extraction. 3. Pascual Perez - Was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion. 4. Miguel Canto - Is a former world boxing champion from Mexico. He defeated OPBF champion Jiro Takada by 11th round TKO. Following that win, Canto faced Espinal for a third time and retained his title once again by a fifteen round decision. On May 15, 1976, he scored a win over former champion Susumu Hanagata. Canto eventually became a traveling world champion. 5. Benny Lynch - Was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and often been described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced. The Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer rated Lynch as the No. 5 flyweight of all-time while his publication placed him 63rd in its 2002 list of the "Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years". Like Fleischer, both Statistical boxing website BoxRec and the International Boxing Research Organization also rank Lynch as the 5th greatest flyweight ever. He was elected to the Ring Magazine hall of fame in 1986 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998. Google+: https://plus.google.com/104715270079859886366 Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/haNZAgod Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user41971768 Highlights Knockouts Tribute ------------------------------------------------ haNZAgod

• published: 18 Oct 2015
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