A Century of Boxing Greats:Inside the Ring with the Hundred Best Boxers is a book about boxing, written by Patrick Myler and published in England in 1997 by Robson Books . Printed in Great Britain by St. Edmundsdurry Press , in Suffolk, and released in 1998 in the United States by Robson/Parkwest Publications in New York City, the book has the Library of Congress catalog card number 97-74450. Hardcover: ISBN 1-861-05134-4. Softcover: ISBN 1-861-05258-8.

List of boxers covered

• Muhammad Ali
• Alexis Arguello
• Henry Armstrong
• Abe Attell
• Carmen Basilio
• Wilfred Benitez
• Nigel Benn
• Nino Benvenuti
• Jack Kid Berg
• Jack Britton
• Panama Al Brown
• Joe Brown
• Ken Buchanan
• Tony Canzoneri
• Georges Carpentier
• Marcel Cerdan
• Ezzard Charles
• Julio Cesar Chavez
• Kid Chocolate
• John Conteh
• Donald Curry
• Oscar De La Hoya
• Jack Dempsey
• Jim Driscoll
• Johnny Dundee
• Roberto Duran
• Jeff Fenech
• Bob Fitzsimmons
• George Foreman
• Bob Foster
• Joe Frazier
• Khaosai Galaxy
• Joe Gans
• Wilfredo Gomez
• Harry Greb
• Emile Griffith
• Marvin Hagler
• Naseem Hamed
• Len Harvey
• Thomas Hearns
• Larry Holmes
• Evander Holyfield
• Julian Jackson
• James J. Jeffries
• Eder Jofre
• Jack Johnson
• Roy Jones Jr.
• Peter Kane
• Stanley Ketchel
• Jake LaMotta
• Sam Langford
• Benny Leonard
• Sugar Ray Leonard
• Ted Kid Lewis
• Sonny Liston
• Dulio Loi
• Ricardo Lopez
• Tommy Loughran
• Joe Louis
• Benny Lynch
• Rocky Marciano
• Jock McAvoy
• Mike McCallum
• Terry McGovern
• Barry McGuigan
• Jimmy McLarnin
• Freddie Miller
• Carlos Monzon
• Archie Moore
• Jose Napoles
• Azumah Nelson
• Battling Nelson
• Ruben Olivares
• Carlos Ortiz
• Manuel Ortiz
• Floyd Patterson
• Eusebio Pedroza
• Willie Pep
• Pascual Pérez
• Aaron Pryor
• Sugar Ray Robinson
• Barney Ross
• Sandy Saddler
• Vicente Saldivar
• Salvador Sanchez
• Max Schmeling
• Michael Spinks
• Dick Tiger
• Gene Tunney
• Randy Turpin
• Mike Tyson
• Jersey Joe Walcott
• Joe Walcott
• Mickey Walker
• Pernell Whitaker
• Jimmy Wilde
• Ike Williams
• Ad Wolgast
• Carlos Zarate

Historical mistakes in the book

The book is mostly historically correct about the facts they point out, but there are a few mistakes in the book. These are some of them:

• When the author speaks of a dream where everything in boxing would be ideal, he states Marcel Cerdan wouldn't bear any of the scars of that horrific plane crash- Cerdan died in the plane crash.

• The Julio Cesar Chavez section says Chavez beat Edwin Rosario by knockout in ten rounds. Chavez actually took eleven rounds to win.

• The Roberto Duran section says Duran beat Iran Barkley with a brilliant knockout. Duran won that fight by decision.

• The Wilfredo Gomez section says Gomez beat Lupe Pintor by knockout in twelve rounds. Gomez actually took fourteen rounds to win.

• The Salvador Sanchez section says that he dropped Gomez three times during their fight. He actually dropped Gomez twice. It also says that Sanchez died five months after his fight with Azumah Nelson, when in reality, Sanchez only died a month and a half after it.

• The caption below Alexis Arguello's photo identifies him as a Versatile Argentine. Arguello is actually from Nicaragua.