Your Top Ten All TIme Euro Middles?

The thread can still be saved!!!!

 

As a matter of interest, Fleischer & Loubet's Pictorial History of Boxing, which was for decades viewed as the sport's definitive anthology, credits Bob Fitzsimmons as Cornish. Born in Helston.

 

Gilbert Odd. That's a blast from the past !

 

Looking at the UK Middles of the 80s/90s, I found Graham to be the only one with a chance of being in the top 10, within the criteria.

Graham has the best win (Kalambay) in my opinion and he ran McCallum very close.
Benn and Eubank prop each other up to a certain extent, with Benn edging Eubank, with his win over Barkley.
Watson, quite tragically failed to reap the spoils of his efforts, from which, had things gone another way, he could have gone on to claim supremacy over the British Middleweight scene.

 

Sibson had some good names on his record. Lucas, Davison, Minter and Kaylor.

 

Indeed - and, on top of that, I just realized that my memory has failed me, since Herol Graham didn't beat Kalambay. He lost to him - twice. For some reason I had thought he'd won one of those encounters.

Time for a rethink...

 

Benn perhaps stands a chance, given my mis-memory over Graham (although Sibbo and even Minter himself perhaps deserve a look). Back to the drawing board on that one.

I need to look more closely at Humez and Langois, both of whom I did not include in my initial list. In particular, the quality of these wins for Humez:

Mitri x2
Scholz
Panter

More study required...

 

Kalambay was Herol's first defeat as a pro wasn't it ? Slipped my mind as well to be honest.

 

It was indeed. Graham and Kalambay fought again, in the early 90s, and Kalambay won again. My bad.