Your Top Ten Middleweights.

1. Carlos Monzon
2. Harry Greb
3. Ray Robinson
4. Marvin Hagler
5. Stanley Ketchel
6. Bernard Hopkins
7. Charley Burley
8. Holman Williams
9. Mickey Walker
10. Dick Tiger

 

Not exactly the way I would do it, but I do like this list

 

Nice to see Hopkins getting his due here.

A fair few classical posters actually dismiss him as an ATG MW.

 

I think it is a small minority....more often than not I believe people question his resume/opponents more than him....Many call him boring (I disagree), but not necesarily question his greatness....But every forum has a few heartfelt fans/haters of just about every boxer.

 

Greb low? Of all the Middleweights there have ever been I can only think of seven who had a better time of it at 160lbs, that is hardly 'low'.

Ketchel is an icon, a fantasy, who in boxing sense probably benefited from dying young.

Hopkins was more consistent for slightly longer than Hagler at 160lbs. But it is very, very close as Hagler's opposition was probably stronger.

 

1) Carlos Monzon
2) Harry Greb
3) Marvin Hagler
4) Sugar Ray Robinson
5) Bernard Hopkins
6) Mickey Walker
7) Stanley Ketchel
8) Charles Burley
9) Dick Tiger
10) Bob Fitzsimmons

 

First 4 are spot on. Don't know enough about the rest. Don't like Hopkins, but your placement is nice.

I'm sorry for ever being a dick to you, you're a credit to my country and a top class poster.

 

The Joe Louis write ups are genuinely top notch too. You're a good ****.

 

xxxx

 

I have had one or two cans of Tennents, broke up with the burd etc. Poor me.

I'll be an arsehole again tomorrow and go back to annoying Burt about Jack Dempsey though.