Close call between Monzon and SRR. Will have to go with Monzon. His resume wasn't as good as SRR but he made up for it by cleared and dominating the division for 7 or 8 years. He also beat some pretty good fighters in Bonvenuti, Griffith and Napoles.
Probably Hagler if were talking head to head. Resume it is hard to top Sugar Ray.
You forgot Stanley Ketchel The Michigan Assassin, he fought Jack Johnson, he even knocked down Johnson, not too many middleweights that would be able to do that (Bhop or Roy Jones wouldn't).
Stanley Ketchel would not be able to handle Roy Jones Jr or James Tony! A game Kelly Pavlik would TKO him in the 3rd round :popcorn:
Probably Hagler if were talking head to head. Resume it is hard to top Sugar Ray.
You forgot Stanley Ketchel The Michigan Assassin, he fought Jack Johnson, he even knocked down Johnson, not too many middleweights that would be able to do that (Bhop or Roy Jones wouldn't).
LaMotta (5 times)
Mims
Marcel
Turpin (2)
Olsen (3)
Graziano
Castellani
G. Fullmer (3)
Basilio (2)
Pender (2)
Moyer
Dupas
Giardello
Sugar Ray Robinson easily has the better opponents on his record and fought the best of his era's multiple times!
He fought Jake 5 times and thats matching up with a top ten Middleweight 5 times!
Ray.
As always....it depends.
Are we having a tournament? If so, by what era's rules? How many rounds? Are catch weights allowed?
Or is it about the best resume?
To me, if we're holding a tournament with 15 rounds, I'd go with Hagler. (Robinson and Monzon are close seconds.)
If it's about the best resume? Greb, probably...in terms of defeating the best opposition at MW.
Resume-wise, I don't really know. The first name that popped into my head as the greatest MW was Ray Robinson though, and that's judging him as a Middleweight and not the P4P greatest he was.
But thinking about it made me realise just how much of a deep history the middleweight division has. It has arguably the deepest of them all. Then you look at the state of the division now. Such a crying shame...