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Ranking the Top 10 American Welterweights of All Time

Simply thinking of 10 great welterweights is not overtly difficult, but filtering them exclusively to Americans eliminates some of the obvious choices and becomes much more challenging.

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Simply thinking of 10 great welterweights is not overtly difficult, but filtering them exclusively to Americans eliminates some of the obvious choices and becomes much more challenging.

For example:

Ted “Kid” Lewis: (233-41-25, 80 KOs) – England

Jimmy McLarnin: (55-11-3, 21 KOs) – Ireland

Emile Griffith: (85-24-2, 23KOs) – Virgin Islands

Jose Napoles: (81-7, 54 KOs) – Cuba

Kid Gavilan: (108-30-5, 28 KOs)- Cuba

Joe Walcott: (95-25-24, 61 KOs)- Barbados

Luis Rodriguez: (107-13, 49 KOs) – Cuba

From our Founding Fighting Forefathers to the Magnificent Modern Maulers the following is a 10 bell salute to the very best American born 147 pounders ever to liberate an opponent from their senses.

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