The Top Ten Middles Who Never Won The Title?

But you're a more respected poster. Am I allowed to mention Les Darcy?

 

DEFINITELY Dave Shade.

Aaron Tiger Wade

 

Sumbu Kalambay, Roy Jones.

 

It blows my mind to imagine they were all around about the same time. And besides Les Darcy you got Klaus, the only official champ of the bunch, to boot. Might just be the richest MW era of AT. Makes you wonder how cleaner these guys' records would be if they fought on another era. Probably a lot of them would cut way higher in ATG lists.

 

Which is why you can make a great case for ALL of them being greater than Bernard Hopkins. Think BHop would have reigned for as many years and with as many title defenses with the kind of Opp these guys faced? No way, no how.

 

No argument here. In fact a lot of guys regularly breaking through the top 5 don't have a single name that bears the same weight of the guys from that list. Hell Gibbons might as well have been the P4P best fighter in his day and you hardly ever hear about him.

 

Georgie Benton.

 

Joe Choynski is one of the standouts for mine.

 

Lloyd Marshall bounced around Ken Overlin-Jake LaMotta-Charlie Burley.
Burley called him the best guy I fought.

 

Len Harvey

 

Not arguing with that.But if you have him,you've got to consider a man who beat him,and Henry Hank.And one who did win the title,Terry Downes.John Cowboy McCormack.

 

My uncle,long dead,saw him knock out Freddie Mills.Said he was dynamite and a stone lighter than Freddie.

 

You fought Marshall ?:-D