5 favourite middleweight fights of all time

well SRR will account for many...

Steele footage is also great
Zale vs Graziano & Cerdan
the Fab 4
Benn fights

that group of Middleweights will always define & represent the Glorious Middleweight Division.

 

McCallum vs Toney I
Pavlik vs Taylor
GGG vs Canelo
Hearns vs Hagler
Duran vs Barkley

Honorable mention
Zale vs Graziano II
Tiger vs Giardello
Martinez vs Williams I

 

Gene Fullmer vs Gil Turner
Jake LaMotta vs Eugene Hairston II
Carlos Monzon vs Rodrigo Valdez II
Emile Griffith vs Dick Tiger I
Sugar Ray Robinson vs Carmen Basilo I

 

That's quite an annoying stipulation.

w/ that in mind, I'll say my 5 favorites are,

Robinson-Basilio 1
Tiger-Giardello 4
Duran-Barkley
Lausse-Pigou
Hagler-Hearns

 

Pigou he was that buffed out Frenchman. When I was being a boxing hipster looking for obscure fighters to sound smart I was big on him LOL.

 

Zale was finished when Cerdan got to him.

 

Mike McCallum vs James Toney 1

Kelly Pavlik vs Jermain Taylor 1

Roberto Duran vs Iran Barkley

Michael Watson vs Nigel Benn

Robinson vs LaMotta St Valentine's Day Massacre

 

Rodrigo Valdez vs Bennie Briscoe 2

Dick Tiger vs Henry Hank

James Toney vs Mike McCallum 1

Gerald McClellan vs Julian Jackson 1

Matthew Macklin vs Jamie Moore

 

Hagler-Hearns
Robinson-Lamotta 6
Toney-McCallum 1
Zale-Graziano 3
Basilio-Robinson 1

 

Edit:

Favorite MW fights ever..............

Hagler/Briscoe
Toney/Mccallum I
Winky/Trinidad
Nunn/Barkley
Martinez/Dzinziruk


Ask this same question next week, 3 of the answers will be different.

 

and Cerdan wasn't?

they started boxing near enough the same time and had less than 3 years in age between them.

 

1. Cavemen Lee vs John LoCicero
2. Bennie Briscoe vs Rodrigo Valdez ll
3. Sugar Ray Robinson vs Carmen Basilio l
4. Marvin Hagler vs Thomas
5. John Duddy vs Yory Boy Campus

 

Cheater!

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhh I didn't see that!!!

let me edit

Very difficult question as most of my faves are a combination of a number of these fighters