There's been lots of discussion lately around this, my favorite, division. GGG, Ketchel, LaMotta, Monzon, Burley... Alright folks, let's get down to it. List your Top 15. I'm not giving any criteria besides "greatest".
In No Order Tiger Jones Jnr Hopkins Monzon Ketchel Greb Hagler Burley Robinson Williams Walker Steele Lamotta Giardello Fitzsimmons Zale [One for luck] Something like that.
Obviously the definitive one. Papp Scholz Plappz Polz Popplz Scholz Phapp Scholz Polz Schapp Spapp Chappz Splazz Zapp Pazzl
Greb Monzon Robinson Hagler Ketchel Fitzsimmons Langford Walker Burley Steele LaMotta Hopkins Tiger T Ryan Gibbons
Nice list. Its is a shame there is no room for Graziano, Cerdan, Basillio, Fulmer... Crowded division.
Good list I would have included Langford but don't think he did much at 160 then again the same could be said for a couple of my choices. Worrying about leaving Gibbons out though.
Not big on either Graziano or Fullmer and Basilio was better at 147lbs.Was Cerdan better than Thil, Dellanoit,or Villemain?
1) Greb 2) Robinson 3) Monzon 4) Hagler 5) Ketchel 6) Hopkins 7) Burley 8) Fitzsimmons 9) Steele 10) Walker 11) Ryan 12) Williams 13) Gibbons 14) Tiger 15) Toney 11-15 was much harder than 1-10. Toney is very questionable, but I felt that there should be a place for someone from the stacked late 80s / early 90s era. Toney had the awful showing against Tiberi, but wins over Nunn and McCallum probably give him the best claim from that group. If Golovkin retired today I'd probably squeeze him in there on dominance and longevity, but his resume is so thin that a decisive loss to Canelo would put his record into a different perspective.
I get as far as number 5, then it becomes a massive grey area. Hagler, Robinson, Greb and Monzon are pretty much locked in, but it gets shaky after that.
No worries, look directly above your post there's 4 names there, and you can take Robinson out for a start!
1. Robinson 2. Monzon 3. Hagler 4. Greb 5. Ketchel 6. Walker 7. Hopkins 8. Burley 9. LaMotta 10. Zale 11. Williams 12. Steele 13. Tiger 14. Valdez 15. Griffith Top 5 pick themselves - just a question of the order. Had a list of 30 that I wittled down to the remaining 10 but could have flipped a coin on some of these. Steele is a guy who I've only recently gained some appreciation for and I thought Zale deserved the final spot in the top 10 - don't think he gets a fair shake these days.