Current pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather and self-proclaimed greatest fighter of all time, made a list of boxers who should join him in the Top Five all time best fighters.

He ranked Robert Duran at second, Pernell Whitaker at third, Julio Cesar Chavez at fourth, and Muhammad Ali at fifth, as reported by Hustle Boss.

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Not surprisingly, he left out the consensus greatest fighter of all-time Sugar Ray Robinson, and Henry Armstrong, who often lands second or third in many of the expert lists.  

He also rated Ali substantially below the usual rank he gets in these lists, which is from first to third.

 Duran usually gets voted at between five to eight in many of these lists.

On the other hand,  Whitaker and Chavez, never scrapes the top ten lists of these rankings, much like Mayweather.

In the Yahoo poll conducted last April, Robinson came out on top, followed by Armstrong and Ali at third.

Duran was ranked fifth, Whitaker was 16th while Chavez came in at 24th.

Meanwhile, Mayweather was 19th and his nemesis Manny Pacquiao was 22nd.

The poll was participated by Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole, boxing historian/ Cliff Rold, Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame founder Rich Marotta, AP columnist Tim Dahlberg, ex-AP writer Ed Schuyler Jr., boxing promoter Lou DiBella; matchmaker Chris Middendorf, Max Kellerman and Jim Lampley of HBO and  Steve Farhood and Al Bernstein of Showtime.

At least when Pacquiao was once declared to be the greatest fighter, it didn't come from the boxer himself--but dubiously from his promoter Bob Arum.

Coming from someone who promoted Ali, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard and Alexis Arguello, it was something.

Of course, it didn't take time for his Hall of Fame matchmaker Bruce Trampler to wake him up to reality. 

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