Your top 5 middleweights hardest hitters?

I've seen it .
Cerdan took the title off of a past it Zale.
He has wins over Williams,Abrams,Green Zale and Dellannoit these are the class men he fought and beat Dellannoit also beat him,the only one he stopped was the washed up Zale. Forty seven of his 65 stoppage wins are over journeymen,and five were debutees.

 

Cerdan had dynamite in both hands, he was sharp, he was strong and he was aggressive.
Zale had just kayoed Graziano. Zale was only two years older than him.
If Cerdan had come to America earlier and lived to fight LaMotta in a rematch, he would definitely have gone down as a top 5 MW.
Majority of fighters are journeymen you will find a whole bunch of journeymen on anyones record... which of the fighters were debutees its no good just saying some were debutees you have to name them.
He won European titles at WW and MW back when that meant something and fought exhibitions during the war. Many of soldiers who saw said he was one of the greatest they'd ever seen.
How many middleweights do you know with 65 knockouts?

 

Not enough of an expert but off the top of my head maybe this?

Rodrigo Valdez
Rocky Graziano
Tony Zale
Tommy Hearns
Nigel Benn

 

Zale had lost 4 years to the war ,he wasnt the same fighter when he restarted his career,thats why he avoided Lamotta,Burley, and Williams and took on the ticket selling Graziano,for his pension plan.
Why do you want me to name them do you think I am lying?
Anyway here they are.
John McCoy 1943
James Toney 1943
Clint Perry 1944
Ralph Burnley1944
Willie Simpson 1944.
Here's some more padding on his ko record.
Manca 5-2-2 1944
Walker 23-19-1 1947
Fouquet 19-4-3 1947
Piankowak 16-134-13 1946
Brun 30-12 -15 1946
Boutin 20-13-6 1945
Menozzi 20-14-3 1943
Gibson 3-0-0 1944
Boulaya 2-3-2 1944
Drouhin 0-0-1 1944
Milano 0-1-0 1943
Buttin 10-5-4 1942
Kop 13-6-8 1942
There's a good 20 more like this.
When the titles meant something?
Cerdan fought Giovanni Manca for the EBU Middleweight title .Manca was 5-2-2!
How many middleweights do I know who had 65 ko's?
How many of those 65 were middleweights ?
Cerdan had 114 fights. how many fighters in the last 50 years had that many
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Lucien Krawczyk 24-6-2
Dick Turpin 77-15-5
Tony Zale 67-17-2
Cyrille Delannoit 52-6-4
LaVern Roach 24-1-0
Jean Walczak 36-6-2
Harold Green 51-7-2
Bert Gilroy 78-22-9
Georgie Abrams 47-5-3
Holman Williams 141-22-10
Robert Charron 33-2-2
Jose Ferrer 44-16-6
Edouard Tenet 59-21-9
Assane Diouf 69-31-8
Jean Despeaux 38-9-4
Larry Cisneros 54-9-5
Victor Janas 70-32-11
Gaspard Deridder 48-14-0
Gustave Humery 81-26-1
Cleto Locatelli 93-27-11
Saverio Turiello 72-32-34
Roger Cadot 53-13-3
Al Baker 52-16-7
Primo Rubio 72-16-14
Eduard Hrabak 63-14-10

 

How could you not be a Dick Tiger fan?

 

Cerdan was an animal.

 

a bit basic to my mind. that said he did a lot with what he had.

 

Man that was some hard fight, yah just can't imagine Wars at the TOP unless you've had a few.
Great Champions & Contenders.

 

Lucien Krawczyk 24-6-2
Dick Turpin 77-15-5
Tony Zale 67-17-2
Cyrille Delannoit 52-6-4
LaVern Roach 24-1-0
Jean Walczak 36-6-2
Harold Green 51-7-2
Bert Gilroy 78-22-9
Georgie Abrams 47-5-3
Holman Williams 141-22-10
Robert Charron 33-2-2
Jose Ferrer 44-16-6
Edouard Tenet 59-21-9
Assane Diouf 69-31-8
Jean Despeaux 38-9-4
Larry Cisneros 54-9-5
Victor Janas 70-32-11
Gaspard Deridder 48-14-0
Gustave Humery 81-26-1
Cleto Locatelli 93-27-11
Saverio Turiello 72-32-34
Roger Cadot 53-13-3
Al Baker 52-16-7
Primo Rubio 72-16-14
Eduard Hrabak 63-14-10[/QUOTE]
How many of them would you say were world class?
116 fights , 5 wins over ranked men.

 

McClellan
Jackson
Hart
Golovkin
Fitzsimmons

 

About 7 or 8 of them I would say

 

Which?

I say
Williams
Zale
Delanoit

I think you are being overly generous.
Dick Turpin was very briefly ranked.
Abrams wasn't ranked.
Green wasn't ranked.
Humery wasn't ranked.
Williams was ranked
Delanoit was ranked, and they split a pair of fights.
Zale was past it, having his last fight.