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Who is the greatest?

Ringside guests Bob Mee, Matt Christie and Glenn McCrory name their top 10 boxers of all time.

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Our guests name their top fighters in history - do you agree?

Many greats have graced the boxing ring over the course of the sport's history, but just who is the greatest of all time? That was the question posed in the Ringside studio after the Boxing News published their new list of the 100 greatest fighters. It's a topic that always leads to plenty of discussion, so we asked boxing historian Bob Mee, Boxing News journalist Matt Christie and Sky Sports pundit Glenn McCrory to tell us their personal top 10's. Here's their lists - and feel free to share your own opinions in the comments box below.

Bob Mee's top 10

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Archie Moore
3. Joe Louis
4. Henry Armstrong
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Carlos Monzon
7. Jimmy Wilde
8. Harry Greb
9. Jack Johnson
10. Benny Leonard BOB SAYS: I had the main few that I wanted up the top and the rest I was juggling for hours. In the end I got confused and somebody will say 'what have you got Jack Johnson at number nine for?' or 'why haven't you got Ray Leonard in there?' You can argue for either of them, but I think Jack Johnson was an astonishing fighter and deserves to be in there.

Matt Christie's top 10

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Henry Armstrong
4. Sugar Ray Leonard
5. Joe Louis
6. Roberto Duran
7. Harry Greb
8. Ezzard Charles
9. Willie Pep
10. Archie Moore MATT SAYS: It is really hard to match somebody from the 1930's to the modern day because of all the technologies available now. To judge them against each other is a difficult task. I've always been one for the craftsmanship rather than the destruction and certainly people like Robinson, Ali and Ezzard Charles, in particular, were fantastic in the art of boxing.

Glenn McCrory's top 10

1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Joe Louis
3. Harry Greb
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Henry Armstrong
6. Archie Moore
7. Jimmy Wilde
8. Jack Dempsey
9. Carlos Monzon
10. Rocky Marciano GLENN SAYS: When you see the great names that have graced this sport it gives you goosebumps and you realise what you love about the sport. Every time you do the list you change it, but would anybody go against Sugar Ray Robinson as the top pick? I don't think anybody possibly would because he was just an amazing, amazing fighter. I got to meet him once and he was great.