The Boxing Board Ep.4 | Who is Boxing’s Greatest Welterweight?

The Boxing Board Ep.4 | Who is Boxing’s Greatest Welterweight?

Author: BBC Radio 5 Live September 16, 2026 Duration: 38:57

Welterweight has produced some of the most complete and celebrated fighters in boxing history, but who is the best of the best?

Chairman Ade Oladipo is joined by comedian and boxing podcaster Travis Jay, alongside trainer and online sensation Frank Gilfeather, who reveals how he once trained with one of the greatest fighters ever to enter a ring.

Across four categories, the board considers the finest 147lb operators from every era. Can anyone displace Sugar Ray Robinson at the top of the division? Was Sugar Ray Leonard the most adaptable fighter boxing has ever seen? And how do modern greats Floyd Mayweather, Terence Crawford, Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley compare with the legends who came before them?

Expect expert insight, passionate disagreement, some surprising omissions and the remarkable story of a boxing icon’s visit to Paisley in the 1960s. Can the board agree on the greatest welterweight of them all?


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