PARTICIPANTS NEEDED: All-time H2H MIDDLEWEIGHT tournament

The heavyweight tournament is still going on, but one of the things I wanted to correct this time around was to give people more time to participate in the seeding round. The next H2H ATG tournament, which will start after the end of the heavyweight tournament, will be for Middleweights.

I'm going to do this like I did last time. I'd like everybody to post their top 10 middleweights, based on HEAD-to-HEAD badassery, not simply resume. If you think Roy would have been unbeatable had he stayed at middleweight regardless of accomplishments, add him.

Keep in mind, if you nominate someone who was past their prime when they moved to that weight (i.e. SRR), you can't use the prime version of them in the tournament. It would be the best version of them AT THAT WEIGHT.

I'm going to be collecting lists until the 19th, so I hope to get more lists than I did for the heavyweight tournament.

Begin!

 

Good lists so far. One thing I'm curious about with the middleweight tournament is seeing how the voter camps shape up. In the heavyweight tournament, there was a clear divide between those who believe modern heavyweights are too big and too strong to be troubled by any pre-1990s fighters and those who believe the 70s heavyweights would reign supreme in any era. The size argument has no real merit at middleweight.

 

Good point. But I don't see a large contingency of people arguing that Jones would beat Hearns because he's bigger. Many of the fighters on the lists posted so far moved up in weight themselves, some as high as heavyweight.

But that does remind me to add a weight clause to the rules once they're published.