Rank them 1-5...Benn, Jackson, Norris, Eubank and McClellan

Rank them 1-5...Benn, Jackson, Norris, Eubank and McClellan

all five have great talent and tremendous impact in their time but fails to be considered an ATG...

of the five, only norris had been inducted in the HOF but i rank him last

1. Benn
2. Norris
3. Eubank
4. Jackson
5. McClellan

 

I'm probably going to get stick for this...but I'm going to rank G-Man above Benn!!

Eubank
G-Man
Benn
Jackson
Norris

 

I would too. You could have made a case that the fight should have been stopped when Benn was knocked out of the ring. I never thought Benn was all that great anyway. He was a sloppy fighter.
G-Man
Jackson
Norris
Eubank
Benn

 

Norris
Eubank
Benn
McClellan
Jackson

 

Norris- was for a few months seen as the numero uno

Eubank- good long reign hard style to figure out

Benn - tough mutha belwo eubank due to eubank beat and annexing his reign as champ

Jackson - heaviest hands ever some say. durable enough but very open to get hit.

mcClellan - heavy heavy puncher, concrete chin, good stamina...but beatable. thing is we havent seen enough of him in all honesty. jackson did get beat up horrificly in the rematch but his prime was already over and jackson was getitng outpointed and anoitnted at every level. we havent seen enough of mcClellan i feel to make a educated estimate.

 

Tough to rank, I think Norris is the slickest, GMAN and Jackson the most impressive offensively, Eubank ofcourse beat Benn who beat GMAN who beat Jackson who beat Norris, but in some ways Norris and Jackson could be seen to be the best. GMAN was possibly shot coming into the BEnn fight (potentially carrying brain trauma)

Herol Graham should have beat Jackson and may well schooled the rest of them, he arguably beat McCallum who dominated Jackson and Watson and Collins who both have wins over Eubanks and Benn. Graham is never getting inducted though.

 

BTW BEnn/Eubank/McClellan never proved themselves top dogs while Toney/Nunn/Maccullum/Jones Jr were holding the title of 'numero uno' in their respective divisions

 

good points, it's unclear if g-man was in danger before the benn fight or if he had won he was would of gone on to better things. but with the talk about migraines after ther jackson fight. it is a posabilty that he was shot before he got into his stride. he was still a new champion at the time. a close figth agianst julian in the 1st match. but jay bell and baptist. were not the toughest of comp...baptist was a good 154 contender but was at the end of his career by this time




norris i think could of lost to all the above (jackson did lose horrificly before he landed that peach of a right hand)mainly due to size and strength issues. but i think he would of looked good for a while.

he is the only HOF in the list, he beat the stiffer comp, and was top 5 at the start of the year and before the simon brown I fight he was seen as the p4per #1 for few 2 or 3 months. also most title defences at 154.

the more i think about it the more i feel norris shoudl be above them in all areas. i dunno prove me wrong peeps

 

I really thought Mclellan was starting to come into his own around the Benn fight. He had been brought up by Emanuel Steward, and his confidence was sky high coming off of the two blowouts of Jackson. What if the fight with Mclellan was stopped after Benn was knocked down and out of the ring? That would have been three consecutive destructions of top tier fighters. Could Norris, who was really a junior middle, taken the onslaught of the G-Man, who was physically a much bigger stronger man? I dont think so. Norris really never had a good chin, and Mclellan was fast and fast starter.

 

I thinking ranking these guys is not the same thing as saying he would win had the fought each other. Therefore when all is considered I rank them in the following order of greatness:

1. Terry Norris
2. Julian Jackson
3. Nigel Benn
4. Gerard McCllellan
5. Chris Eubank

 

Jackson, Eubank, Norris, Benn, McCllellan

Although to be fair, any order is fine as long as McCllellan is last.

 

good enough choice. but why chris at the bottom :think

 

Interesting thread...we seem to be getting a vast variety of opinions!!!

I must admit my list was not done in a p4p sense, but rather that results of a league with all opponents facing eachother at 160. That's why I had Norris bottom.

 

In terms of resume, GMAN is last. Not his fault mind.

Jackson hardest hitter, followed by GMAN and then Benn. Norris slickest, Eubank most difficult to beat convincingly (IN MY OPINION)

 

Yeah your probably right based on resumes. Mclellan had the most potential though in my opinion, he punched as hard or harder than Jackson. You have to rank him over Jackson just for his two total destructions of Jackson.