Rank the following middleweights in terms of power

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  1. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 Officer Full Member

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    Kid McCoy twice floored Tom Sharkey, who supposedly has a cast iron chin at heavyweight.
     
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  2. D.T

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    Jackson
    McClellan
    Benn/Mugabi
    Valdez
    Briscoe
    Fernandez
    Sibson
     
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  4. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Plenty of left hook artists in the middleweight division those days, Lausse, Fernandez, Hurricane Carter. Lausse's left was the best of the lot I'd say, although the rest matched him in power.
     
  5. lora

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    Another great forgotten middleweight left hook...Lindell Holmes.

    Didn't quite carry his power up to 168 though.
     
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  6. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker Full Member

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    It's one hell of a list ... Briscoe almost flattened Monzon .. talk about power ...
     
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  7. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    It's sad almost no one remembers merqui Sosa.
     
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  8. AwardedSteak863

    AwardedSteak863 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I have McClellan as the hardest puncher on the list provided. Some guys that should be in the conversation for sheer power at 160 are Maseleno Masoe and David Lemuex. Both guys had/have brutal lefts hooks that could close the show on anyone. To bad they both had deficiencies elsewhere in their game.
     
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  9. Kamikaze

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    Probably not a lot between them all honestly.
     
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  10. Kamikaze

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    Just because he isn’t mentioned doesn’t mean he’s forgotten. Don’t be a hipster.
     
  11. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    McClellan top by far

    Then it’s close between Benn and Julian

    Then the rest are far off
     
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  12. Bulldog24

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    McClellan
    Benn
    Jackson
    Mugabi
     
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  13. Bulldog24

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    The best one-punch ko artist as such was of course Julian J- his accuracy was second to none.
     
  14. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    I said "almost" everyone forgot about him, and honestly, Sosa is in the stage of being forgotten IMO.

    Forgotten does not literally mean that everyone forgot about him, if only a few amount of people know about him can also be considered forgotten. Let's say that there's 1 000 000 people in this world and only 100 people remembered about you, that can also be considered "forgotten".

    One more thing, why does no people mention about him does not mean his not forgotten? If no one talks about you, you're probably forgotten. It's like saying that you left a village and all the people from the village didn't even talk about you or even spoke your name and your not forgotten? That doesn't make any sense.. (at least for me)

    I apologize if I was being a hipster and it was irritating you. I'm sorry.
     
  15. Kamikaze

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    Relax brother. It's all good.