I like Giardello so much, I'm tempted to rate him first....he toiled for so long in the School of Hard Knocks though out the 50's, and to his great credit, since he had no amateur bouts, these 50's wars were where he earned his pedigree...and culminated in his brief, but to me, highly impressive two bout streak...when he won the title over Tiger, a brilliant "boxer over the slugger" performance, and his sublime defense over Carter,...where, almost at the end of his shelf life, he used every trick in the book to out box, out fox, out trick and out moxie the Hurricane (damn that lying movie which won't be named)...but I believe that I have to rank these four just as you have McVey... Apostoli Giardello Steele Pender (a distant 4th) Apostoli was more consistant, and for a more protracted period of time...as for the Terror...Steele, and certainly Pender, Giardello was clever enough, and wizardly enough to have beaten them both on points.....and on a given night...perhaps the nights he beat Tiger and Carter, he would have beaten Apostoli too IMO.
