Comments Thread For: The Top 25 Middleweights of All-Time – 11 to 25

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By Cliff Rold - For any new boxing fan, the time is not long before a fellow fan points out a magic number which grows more mythologized with time: eight. As in boxing’s original eight weight classes. The number represents in the mind of many a time when the sport was compressed into fields which couldn’t help but be talented, couldn’t help but draw crowds, because there were so few places on the scale to go. They were divisions marked by single champions ever challenged by a depth of contenders today’s seventeen weight classes rarely know. [Click Here To Read More]

[dde91]

Top 4
Hagler
Monzon
Hopkins
Robinson

[Thread Stealer]

I expected Burley to be in the top 10.

Top five will probably be (no order) Greb, Monzon, Robinson, Hagler, Hopkins.

Not as confident with the pick of Hopkins though. I've seen him on quite a few lists on the lower end of the top ten, due to the poor MW era he fought in.

[jrosales13]

Cliff I never have anything to say about your lists. I love reading your stuff. And, I want to see who you have in the top 10 before I criticize. I think Lamotta is top 10 all time. So I am very curious just to see how your top 10 looks like.

My top 5 is

1. SRR
2. Greb
3. Monzon
4. Hagler
5. Ketchell

So I am really interested on how your list will end... But, really am I really overrating Lamotta for putting him in the top 10?

[aristotlemoses]

I expected Burley to be in the top 10.

Top five will probably be (no order) Greb, Monzon, Robinson, Hagler, Hopkins.

Not as confident with the pick of Hopkins though. I've seen him on quite a few lists on the lower end of the top ten, due to the poor MW era he fought in.

that's what i was going to say as well.

[any craic lad?]

1 sugar ray 2 hagler 3 monzon 4 hearns

[crold1]

that's what i was going to say as well.

What's interesting with Burley is that almost no one had him that high prior to the later 80s/90s. I think it's a tad too high, but understand how he rates there with some.

[donray]

My choices for top MWs are

1. Marvin Hagler
2.Ray Robinson
3. Carlos Monzon
4. Harry Greb
5.Bernard Hopkins reluctantly because I couldn't figure out who else successfully campaigned at MW long enough and deserved the 5 spot.

[norway]

Doubt there will ever be a new Roy Jones !! Same with Mike Tyson these two are the two supermen in boxing. Absolutely nothing and nobody could even dream about touching them in their primes. Remember these names there might never be something the same in you lifespan. Roy easy number one in history

[the mesiah]

1-walker smith jr...from detroit,greatest ever to do it
2-marvelous one, from brokton, 62-3 record
3-escopeta,aka the *******, 87-3 record ,fought in a era with not so great competition but 87-3 hard to out do,
4-the pittburgh windill,260 wins, unbelievable ,
5-i guess executioner,if hadn't lost to jermain twice and if he would beat roy jones ,maybe would have moved up a spot or two,
but let see what the rest list looks like when it comes out