Can We Get A Consensus All Time Top Ten At Middleweight?

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  1. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I knew you were going to call that out but I couldn't bring myself to include inferior fighters. I will knit them each a handsome belt in reward of their excellence.
     
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    1. Hagler
    2. Ray Robinson
    3. Greb
    4. Monzon
    5. Hopkins
    6. Fitzsimmons
    7. Ketchell
    8. LaMotta
    9. Steele
    10. Cerden

    11. Charlie Burley
    12. MaCullum
    13. Tiger
    14. Fulmer
    15. Tate

    Modern era

    1.Pavlik
    2. Martinez
    3. Jermain Taylor.
    4. Sergio Mrtinez.

    I can't decide between Arthur Abhram and Golovkin for the number 5 spot. Both resumes are interchangeable. Arthur has the added bonus of being a two weight world champion.
     
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  3. Nick Balsamo

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    1. Harry Greb
    2. Marvin Hagler
    3. Carlos Monzon
    4. Sugar Ray Robinson
    5. Roy Jones Jr.
    6. Stanley Ketchel
    7. Charley Burley
    8. Bernard Hopkins
    9. Emile Griffith
    10. Freddie Steele
     
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  4. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    You are incorrigible Seamus.
     
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  5. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    I must have missed Burley's reign
     
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    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Can We Get A Consensus All Time Top Ten At Middleweight?


    Only those that actually held the title please

    Nothing changes much here does it.:error:
     
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  7. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Then you are asking for a top ten title holder list which is neither mutually exclusive nor collectively exhaustive of a top ten middleweight list.
     
    Seamus, Mar 14, 2017
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  8. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    01. Monzon
    02. Hagler
    03. Robinson
    04. Greb
    05. Walker
    06. Griffith
    07. Tiger
    08. Steele
    09. Fullmer
    10. Hopkins
    Honorable mention to Rodrigo Valdez...a bit of a wild card in that on a given night, he was capable of ko'ing a few of the ones I listed...or at the very least, giving each a hell of a fight.
     
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    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    A very good middleweight champion.
     
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  10. dpw417

    dpw417 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Rodrigo Valdez is a helluva mention Red...IMHO he takes Steele, Fullmer,...and maybe Griffith? I think Walker could ride him out...On your list...he might knock off a few on mine as well...Dangerous puncher.
     
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  11. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Theres no goddamned way Valdez ranks over Steele. Steele's resume should be the stuff of legend. I can't believe that supposedly knowledgeable folks, those who spend all day pontificating on heavyweights, don't know the most basic facts of even the middleweight division, one that is supposedly popular.
     
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    That's why I STFU on this one. Some of those guys I haven't watched many fights of at all. ;)
     
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    Ketchel
    Greb
    Walker
    Steele
    Robinson
    Tiger
    Griffith
    Monzon
    Hagler
    Hopkins

    It's such a deep division. Even without the guys who never won the belt I've left off Fitz and Flowers, Lamotta and Jones, all those guys from the 10s and 30s.
     
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    1. Harry Greb
    2. Carlos Monzon
    3. Marvin Hagler
    4. Sugar Ray Robinsn
    5. Stanley Ketchel
    6. Mickey Walker
    7. Fred Apsotoli
    8. Freddie Steele
    9. D. Tiger
    10. Joey Giardello
     
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  15. mcvey

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    I am asking for a list of the top ten men who held the middleweight title.Nothing more ,nothing less ,and dressing it up in flowery verbiage wont make the criteria I specified to arrive at said top ten any different.
     
    mcvey, Mar 15, 2017
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