Comments Thread For: The top 10 middleweight champs of the 21st century

[BoxingUpdates]

With Carlos Adames defending his WBC middleweight title against Austin Williams this Saturday, Eric Raskin takes the opportunity to rank the 10 best middleweight champions of the 21st century.
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[Spray_resistant]

Cotto on that list lol He had like two fights at middle, one against shot injured Sergio and a loss against Canelo. Cotto has also never scaled in at any fight higher than 155lbs.

[anonymous2.0]

wasn't all of Cotto's fights at middleweight catchweights?

[SteveM]

Many though Martinez lost to Martin Murray. I know Murray and Jacobs weren't champions but I'd say they were at least as good if not better than those at the bottom of that top ten.
Murray lasted to the 11th against a still prime Golovkin, drew with Sturm and should have beaten Martinez.
Derevyanchenko is one of those hard luck guys - they say they can't quite get over the hump but lets face it, when E.European fighters fight A side boxers the cards are most likely already 2 rounds in favour of most of the Americans before the fight starts - that said Jacobs likely beat Derevyanchenko as well as anyone and earlier on in Derev's career too. Jacobs had his supporters who thought he beat Golovkin too.
Oh, and Cotto's victory over Martinez was ALL ABOUT THE KNEE - so we have Raskin re-writing history here. Martinez was as messed up as Haye was vs Bellow.

[steeve steel]

Sturm, Jacobs and Cotto (weight) don't belong on that list.

[The D3vil]

Yeah, I agree.

Cotto shouldn't be on here.

[wrecksracer]

Kind of a weak list. This was not the golden age of middleweights

[Robi13]

Canelo, imho should be 1.

[The Big Dunn]

Cotto seems out of place as a MW.

[ShoulderRoll]

It always bothers me that Sergio Martinez’ knee isn’t brought up enough when it comes to Miguel Cotto’s win over him. That victory has to come with an asterisk in my opinion.