The top 30 (at least) at each weight , including P4P

Middleweight (160) :
1. Walker Smith Jr.
2. Sam Langford
3. Carlos Monzon
4. Marvin Hagler
5. James Toney
6. Rubin Carter
7. Rodrigo Valdez
8. Mike McCallum
9. Gerald McClellan
10. Reggie Johnson

11. Chris Eubank
12. Steve Collins
13. Charley Burley
14. Joey Archer
15. Jorge Fernando Castro
16. Young Peter Jackson
17. Sanderline Williams
18. Tony Thornton
19. Julian Jackson
20. Tony Zale

21. David Tiberi
22. Merqui Sosa
23. Michael Nunn
24. Michael Watson
25. Nigel Benn
26. Sumbu Kalambay
27. Joey Giardello
28. Dick Tiger
29. Gene Fullmer
30. Emile Griffith

31. Joe Choynski
32. Bob Fitzsimmons
33. Bernard Hopkins
34. Ronald Wright
35. Keith Holmes
36. Robbie Sims
37. Fritzie Zivic
38. Harry Greb
39. Tom Sharkey
40. Quincy Taylor

41. Gilbert Baptist

 

I can tolerate this/these certain disagreements but Sim Thompkins is usually regarded as a welterweight and he was stopped twice while Collins was never stopped , was bigger , his losses at 160 were all very close and he even had a better competition at 160 than Thompkins had.
Rubin Carter's sole stoppage loss was due to cuts , his decision losses were close too , was yet again bigger , and just see who he won and how.

I shall now consider their ranking which also reminded me of Choynski and Sharkey.

 

If Tiger Flowers beat Greb twice (and this does not even include Greb's stoppage losses) why couldn't Keith Holmes ?
also : Keith Holmes stopped his challengers frequently and even his "loss" to Cherifi (decisively avenged later) was probably a robbery , Greb could not stop clubfighters .
If someone ranked Greb a tad bit over Keith Holmes , it would not have been a big problem for me , but Greb is extremely overrated and was also a dirty fighter who still could not capitalize on it like Zivic could for example , and was still stopped himself despite of it.

 

Who did Cerdan fight against ? do you know ?
Who did LaMotta beat and how ?
I did not forget about them , a search through their records revealed records inferior to Keith Holmes' . Keith Holmes is underrated , LaMotta and Cerdan overrated.

 

If there was youtube in Fitzsimmons' era , Zakman would have had him on his avatar for sure :yep

 

It's more than I managed to grasp from viewing their records but LaMotta also lost his share of times to Zivic and Smith was his DNA verified daddy . What's the greatness at fighting the same man multiple times , getting stopped by him , getting schooled by him but once barely outpointing him ? Sim Thompkins at least managed to stop Langford , Lamotta couldn't stop the much lighter Smith and the much lighter and also older Zivic , LaMotta was h2h inferior to welterweights , who did he stop ? Cerdan after fouling him ? and then some lousy "heavyweight" ? Keith Holmes had a reign of stoppages over undefeated fighters whom were sometimes proven and sometimes he remained their sole stopper , was never stopped himself , one of his 4 decision losses was a 6 rounder , another was avenged by stoppage and included a knockdown of the "winner" , another was a MD at age 36 and another was a competitive loss at an 8 rounder at age 38.
And then a loss to Hopkins , I just wonder if it was the usual Hopkins or if Hopkins actually fought under boxing rules .
Cerdan's record is what they call "padded" around these parts .