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

[Clegg]

my top 3....

1.Sugar Ray Robinson
2.Harry Greb
3.Carlos Monzon/Hagler or Lamotta

There is no way Greb is ahead of Robinson....just my opinion, and im sure many will agree with me

Also, Bernard Hopkins should be higher than 7...he cracks the top 5

How can you have Hopkins top 5 if you have Robinson, Greb, Monzon, Hagler and Lamotta above him?

[SplitSecond]

what a **** list

[The Stone Roses]

learn to read....i said i have a 3-way tie for NO.3.....idiot

[Mr. David]

learn to read....i said i have a 3-way tie for NO.3.....idiot

That would make your next fighter in your rankings the sixth.

[Frank Martin]

1. pavlik
2. calzaghe (his resume is mostly blown up middleweights)
3. robinson

you forgot sven ottke

[RagingTheBull]

How the hell is possibile that Nino Benvenuti is not there? the man conquered the title once in 1967 and again from 1968 to 1970

W Emile Griffith x2 (UD, UD)
W Don Fullmer (UD)
W Fraser Scott (DQ)
W Rodriguez (KO)
W Bethea (ko)

L Emile griffith 8MD)
L Carlos Monzon x2 (KO, KO)

how is this possibile?

this isn't possibile.

[KittenFlaps]

This list is kinda like saying Babe Ruth was a better hitter than Barry Bonds. It's obvious that Bonds has a better record than Ruth but Ruth is much more of a purists choice. No steroid accusations, in the heyday of the sport, etc.

Not saying that I disagree with this list, but I also can't really agree with it as I have no idea the level of opposition most of these old school fighters fought.

[edgarg]

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Hello Cliff,

I like your list-up to point.

I certainly would have switched Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins. Benvenuti should have been in the iop 10 or 15. His KO of Luis Rodriguez was first class. I would have dropped Sugar Ray Robinson 4=6 places, since, although he won the title so many times he also lost the title nearly as many times as he won it. In Turpin 2 he was on the way to losing when he pulled off that stoppage. The same with the Fullmer K.O. I'd have had Laszlo Papp in tnere somewhere.
I think I've asked you about boxing contacts in Panama, I'm moving there at the end of this month. You didn't reply.

[TheGreatA]

Fair list. Good to see Freddie Steele rated highly although I wouldn't have him in the top 5 myself. Underrated fighter.

[TheGreatA]