Teddy Atlas's 10 Greatest Middleweights of All Time.

Ketchel doesn't impress me. I would put GGG in front of him by most metrics. LaMotta also does not belong. And woe to any who include Cerdan.

 

Exact order is perfect as well. I honestly wouldn't change a thing.

 

Back then, I used to leave Triple G out of my top 50 Middleweights list. But now looking at how his career played out, it resembles a lot like Bernard Hopkins' middleweight resume (lots of contenders and a dominating performance against a prime P4Per (Trinidad for Hopkins and Canelo for GGG)). So it makes sense to me that GGG may be around Top 20 territory (or near there) if Hopkins is ranked in the top 10.

 

Oh for sure. What’s not to like about the man? Everything he did was picture perfect.

 

Leonard won 3 fights at Middle.
Graziano doesn't belong anywhere near a top twenty! imo

 

..Joey Giardello deserves a shout..

He isn't top 10 but probably a top 20

 

Just about all of them that were filmed. Absolutely mesmerizing stuff I'll tell ya.

 

This was my top 50 at 160 from 2021ish.

#50. Luis Rodriguez
#49. Georgie Abrams
#48. Cocoa Kid
#47. Young Corbett III
#46. Marcel Cerdan
#45. Randy Turpin
#44. Bobo Olson
#43. Marcel Thil
#42. Paul Pender
#41. Jack Chase
#40. Jeff Smith
#39. Gennady Golovkin
#38. Roy Jones Jr
#37. Sumbu Kalambay
#36. Charles McCoy
#35. Mike McCallum
#34. Michael Nunn
#33. James Toney
#32. Billy Papke
#31. Gene Fullmer
#30. Bert Lytell
#29. Jack Dillon
#28. Tony Zale
#27. Tiger Flowers
#26. Mickey Walker
#25. Emile Griffith
#24. Fred Apostoli
#23. Jack Dempsey
#22. Ken Overlin
#21. Tommy Ryan
#20. Mike O'Dowd
#19. Billy Conn
#18. Lloyd Marshall
#17. Joey Giardello
#16. Leo Houck
#15. Mike Gibbons
#14. Stanley Ketchel
#13. Frank Klaus
#12. Teddy Yarosz
#11. Holman Williams
#10. Jake LaMotta
#09. Charley Burley
#08. Freddie Steele
#07. Dick Tiger
#06. Bob Fitzsimmons
#05. Bernard Hopkins
#04. Marvin Hagler
#03. Carlos Monzon
#02. Sugar Ray Robinson
#01. Harry Greb

**Didn't Make The Cut**
George Benton, George Chip, Iran Barkley, Nino Benvenuti, Jermain Taylor, Kelly Pavlik, Vito Antuofermo, Dave Sands, Dave Shade, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Alan Minter, Tony Sibson, Rocky Graziano, Michael Watson, Terry Downes, Steve Collins, Ruben Carter, Juan Roldan, Al Hostak, Reggie Johnson, Sergio Martinez, Dmitry Pirog, Bennie Briscoe

 

Amen to that.

Can't remember the name, but he lit his one opponent up with such a beautiful, dazzling combo, that put even the likes of Louis to shame.

 

I hope this is sarcasm.