For the middleweights, world-conquering monsters arrived early. In Part Two we met fighters so extraordinary that it is easy to imagine them besting even the men...
Ola Afolabi is a glaring question mark of a fighter. On the one hand, he has done an enormous amount of his fighting on the road...
I have to take you back now. In the top ten we will find a handful of men who box in colour. You can guess their...
Roman Gonzalez spoke with his usual humble determination prior to his meeting Saturday night with former pound-for-pounder Brian Viloria but once the bell rang to signal...
Lethal power-puncher Gennady Golovkin, the world’s best middleweight, 33-0 and thirty-three years of age out of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, meets Canadian David Lemieux, 26 years old and...
Great middleweights outrank great fighters on this list. That’s why the likes of Roy Jones and Billy Conn languish behind Gene Fullmer and Nino Benvenuti. A...
Ramil Gadzhiev, out of the deeply troubled port city of Odessa, Ukraine, is just seventeen years old but his amateur pedigree is astounding: he was bestowed...
In the introduction to Part One I alluded to the astonishing depth of the middleweight division; that depth is illustrated by the array of talent in...
My pre-fight prediction that Saturday’s meeting between pound-for-pounder Juan Francisco Estrada and former beast Hernan “Tyson” Marquez from the Centro Convenciones, Puerto Penasco might be painfully...
There comes a time in every fighter’s career when he looks up and sees boots, tastes copper. The only ones to avoid this ignominy are the...