I'm trying my hand at a top 100 middles list. The following candidates may not be in everyone's top 25, or even 50. But please try your hand at ranking these 36 wonderful middleweights into tier 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 (6 in each tier) . Whatever criteria you like (I make my rankings based on 75% h2h and 25% resume). I will put them in (approximately) alphabetical order: Abrams Antuofermo Apostoli Barkley Benton Benvenuti Booker Briscoe Brouillard Carter Chase Chip Collins Cocoa Kid Corbett III Downes Hamsho Hostak R Johnson Klaus S Martinez Minter Olson Overlin Pavlik Pender Pirog Roldan Rodriguez Sands Shade Sibson J Smith J Taylor Thil Valdes Thank you for helping out a geeky list maker, who contributes to this forum often, loves watching fights, and is generally not argumentative (but has controversial opinions on Liston).
Well, I was about to start doing a top fifty middleweight list. So it looks like we may wanna work together. Here's my crack it, with six tiers. Tier I Frank Klaus & Ken Overlin Tier II Luis Rodriguez, Eddie Booker, Jack Chase, Rodrigo Valdez, Young Corbett III, Lou Brouillard, Fred Apostoli Tier III Bob Olson, Marcel Thil, Paul Pender, Cocoa Kid Tier IV George Abrams, George Benton, George Chip, Iran Barkley, Nino Benvenuti, Jermain Taylor, Kelly Pavlik, Vito Antuofermo Tier V Jeff Smith, Dave Sands, Dave Shade, Alan Minter, Tony Sibson, Terry Downes, Steve Collins, Ruben Carter Tier VI Juan Roldan, Al Hostak, Reggie Johnson, Sergio Martinez, Dmitry Pirog, Bennie Briscoe
Thank you @George Crowcroft. As stated before, I rate more on h2h (75%) than resume (25%). But this is difficult. My poor attempt: Tier I Klaus, Overlin, Valdez, Apostoli Tier II Barkley, Benvenuti, Corbett III, Chase, Thil, Olson, Pender, Cocoa Kid, Booker Tier III Brouillard, Rodriguez, Pavlik, Taylor, Briscoe, Minter Tier IV Abrams, Benton, Antuofermo, Smith, Downes, Carter, Hostak Tier VI Martinez, Johnson, Collins, Roldan, Pirog, Sibson, Chip, Sand, Shade I really don't know enough yet about... Hamsho Risko
