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

[bojangles1987]

WHAT?????? Harry Greb ahead of Sugar Ray Robinson......this list is not credible...BS you let me down

Well you have to remember that Sugar Ray at middleweight was not the best Sugar Ray at all. They aren't saying Harry Greb is better, just that he was a better middleweight.

[crold1]

Well you have to remember that Sugar Ray at middleweight was not the best Sugar Ray at all. They aren't saying Harry Greb is better, just that he was a better middleweight.

When it comes down to guys like Rob, Greb, Langford...it's an any given day thing on who was better. They are all fairly equal IMO.

[-Swizzy-]

I don't have too much disagreement with the list. I would put SRR at #1 but I could see Greb being #1 as well. good list.

[tuxtucis]

Freddie Steele must be far lower...
Bob Fitzsimmons far higher...

[BoxingFanFirst]

How the **** is RJJ 25, yet Bhop is 7?? Calzhage not even mentioned. Sorry, but this list was the worst at of all of BScenes lists. Worth a bump.

[Siggy]

How the **** is RJJ 25, yet Bhop is 7?? Calzhage not even mentioned. Sorry, but this list was the worst at of all of BScenes lists. Worth a bump.

becuz bhop achieved much more and stayed longer at middleweight.
calzaghe was a super middleweight.

edit: really dude, you need to know your divisions. roy won a title at middle and never defended it. hopkins defended his title at middle 21 times. unified his division and was a champ at middle fro over a decade.

[Kiddoe]

Just came across this old @$$ thread...

IMO the Marvelous one was the greatest true middleweight of all time. #4 needs to be changed to #1.

[McGoorty]

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Sorry I have a lot of respect usually for this forum BUT, this middleweight list is disgraceful, you think so poorly of the great Les Darcy that he isn't even in your top 25 middleweights of all time ??? are you for real or is this guy who made the list an idiot ? is this an anti Australian thing ? are Australian fighters so little regarded and are we Aussies just idiots ?... I doubt I will ever come back to post on this forum after reading this, I am shocked, Les Darcy would have destroyed nearly every fighter in this list, this is simply a joke, it is as if the guy drew up a shortlist of say 80 middleweights and simply had never heard of Darcy, hell he would have beat Harry Greb I reckon, knocked him out, he would have had trouble with Robinson of course, everyone would have but Darcy had EVERYTHING, every single physical asset, every single skill in large measure, speed, toughness (in the annals of the fight game few had a better chin, he was never knocked out, never knocked down. He was indescribably brilliant on the outside and inside, he is close to the strongest middleweight of all time had huge knockout power.... need I go on ??? forget it, you guys have never heard of any Australian fighters at all cos no Australian comes near Darcy, he is the greatest Aussie fighter to ever live... goodbye.

[McGoorty]

Just came across this old @$$ thread...

IMO the Marvelous one was the greatest true middleweight of all time. #4 needs to be changed to #1.

who cares mate, the idiot didn't even have Les Darcy in the list so stop whining, that fact makes the list a joke

[Ray Corso]

Hopkins, Calzhage, Jones (minimal time at 160) Pavlik don't make my list!

Sugar Ray is thre best welter & middle of all time.

I do think Cerdan isn't appreciated because of his death not allowing him to flurish world wide but he was tremendous fighter at welter & middle.

I think Burley and Ketchel aren't realized as extremely difficult men to defeat.
These were men who where pro fighters 100% of the time. Their exsistance revolved around fighting and they never took time off. That type of experience is the most valid plus they would hold over current day fighters.
Current fellows like Hopkins & Calzhage rely on boxing techniques alone the men from the modern era rely on boxing moves to set up their brutal fighting modes. Their body to head attacks aren't incorpertated much these days.
Fighters like Chocolitio have the boxer set up puncher style that is rarely seen anymore. Duran offered that style and was extremely effective in his prime years.

Langford is another man that no one would care to face other than the top tier men at that weight.

Ray.