A Forgotten Generation - 90's Middleweights

The 90s as a whole goes down as the best ever middleweight era in my reckoning.

I think Hopkins competition is underrated, maybe some would have been champs.

The top 90s middleweights are awesome:

Roy Jones
Toney
Hopkins
McCellan
Eubank
Benn
Watson
MacCullum
Michael Nunn
Steve Collins
Julian Jackson
Kalambay

Best Middleweight Era ever? YEP

 

Throw out whatever petty insults you want, doesn't change the fact that your initial post was overblown nonsense. If you're doing a piece on 90's MW's, why not consider the ones worth mentioning rather than a few of Hopkins's mediocre conquests?

In other words, skim over a different MW's resume if you want to find consistent quality. That wasn't one of the strong points of Hopkins's resume.

 

Looks like I won that exchange.

 

Just about.

 

Not really a clearly defined era there.

Half those fighters were eighties fighters as far as 160 goes(supermiddle falls under lightheavy not middleweight remember).

The late eighties\early nineties period was strong, mostly made up of eighties fighters.The mid to late nineties have mostly been garbage.

 

...............I remember being pretty impressed with Reggie Johnson as a middleweight. Excellent boxer who reminded me a bit of Winky Wight, but a little more aggressive. Slick, hard to catch flush, high guard, southpaw, a bit limited in the power department.

It should be noted that he fought Toney to a virtual standstill in '91, even dropping him along the way (no slip, a real knockdown).

 

That was a very risky fight to take, especially for a young champion making his first defense. I thought Toney's management was very bold about that one.
After the Johnson fight I was convinced Toney would make the grade as a middleweight champ...too bad Jones had to show up in the end.