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Tommy's Top 10 Middleweights In History.

Posted 05-11-2008 at 06:49 PM by TommyGunn
Updated 04-29-2010 at 04:15 PM by TommyGunn
[SIZE="3"][B]#1 - Sugar Ray Robinson - W173 (108) - L19 - D6[/B][/SIZE]
Robinson truly is the greatest fighter that has ever lived that can not be debated. There is Sugar Ray Robinson and then the top 10 best fighters bellow him. Robinson had an incredible career in the sport beating such greats as Fullmer, Olson, LaMotta and Basilio.

[B][SIZE="3"]#2 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler - W62 (52) - L3 - D2[/SIZE][/B]
The best way Hagler can be described is a beat. He is probably the most dominating middleweight in the hitory of the sport, and has an incredible 52 KO's in 62 wins. Hagler was the victim of fighting in a middleweight division that was weak in its era and his biggest wins came against fighters who moved up like Mugabi, Duran and Hearns. Haglers last fight was against another fighter who had moved up through the weights and that was Sugar Ray Leonard. Leonard got the win but most at ring side thought Hagler had done enough, the fight is still debated to this day.

[SIZE="3"][B]#3 - Carlos Monzon - W87 (59) - L3 - D9[/B][/SIZE]
Like Hagler, Monzon was a victim of fighting in a bad era of middleweights. What makes Monzon so great though is out of his 100 fights the 3 he lost were in his 1st 20 contest, making him one of the most dominating 160 pound fighters in history. Monzon was tough rugged and could punch and he had one of the greatest chins in boxing history. Monzons big wins came against other big name fighters like Jose Napoles, Emille Griffin, Nino Benvenuti and Tony Mundine.

[SIZE="3"][B]#4 - Harry Greb - W260 (48) - L21 - L17[/B][/SIZE]
Greb is not a fighter ive seen because theres no footage of him. Reading up up on him though Greb has an incredible record which is considered one of the best in the sport. He was the one and only fighter to defeat the great Genne Tunney who was a middleweight and heavy champion. Greb was an all action fighter who was only stopped twice in his 299 fights which is quite simply remarkable.

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Rotten Apple's Avatar
That's a good list.
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Posted 05-11-2008 at 07:50 PM by Rotten Apple Rotten Apple is offline
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Megarodon's Avatar
Good list Tommy but I'm kinda missing Stanley Ketchel in there.
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Posted 05-12-2008 at 12:31 PM by Megarodon Megarodon is offline
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Thanks Mega.

Ketchal i think is a lit like John L Sullivan great back in his time but he would not have lived with the fighters that came after him.

Everything improved after there era's, the sport evolved and te fighters were better all round.

He was great at his time though.
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Posted 05-12-2008 at 01:11 PM by TommyGunn TommyGunn is offline
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He dropped Jack Johnson! and he also beat the lighheavy champion twice(or more). Time-for-time speaking, he was excelent and a force in the sport.
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Posted 05-12-2008 at 11:16 PM by Megarodon Megarodon is offline
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Neither of those fights were at MW buddy.
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Posted 05-13-2008 at 11:21 AM by TommyGunn TommyGunn is offline
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I know, what I'm stating is that he was so good he could fight men that were much bigger than he was, as proof of his quality and to oppose what you said he wouldnt live with the fighters that came after him.. He was really a great fighter. If you dont have Jack Johnson in ur top hws then I can understand ketchel not being there.
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Posted 05-13-2008 at 07:59 PM by Megarodon Megarodon is offline
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thats a very good list tommy, even though Jake LaMotta didn't have great knockout power, i would have given him a bit more credit and placed him above Tiger but its still a great list never the less.
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Posted 05-14-2008 at 09:26 AM by Kozie Kozie is offline
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Good job Tommy.
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Posted 07-31-2008 at 04:46 AM by NFFC NFFC is offline
 

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