The Ultimate Middle/Super Middleweight Competition

By John Tandy

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Over the last 25 years the Middle and Super Middleweight Divisions have produced some of the best talent to enter a boxing ring, no one can ever say who the best were as many of them have not and will not fight each other in their primes.

The following competition is my idea on how the fights would have gone should they have fought each other whilst in their prime. There are 32 qualifiers entering the competition and they are split into 2 sections, to qualify fighters must have either competed at Middleweight or Super Middleweight at some point in their career even if it was not their ideal weight and must have fought within the last 25 years.

The fights are seen as if each fighter was in his prime. The draw is made totally randomly and the outcome of each fight is as I would have seen it, they may have already fought each other, this will be taken into account however it will not necessarily determine the result.

The first two rounds will be completed within the sections and then the final qualifying 8 will form the quarter finals. It will be a knockout competition so a loss removes the fighter from the competition.

Section 1

1. Steve Collins
2. Mike McCallum
3. Michael Watson
4. Nigel Benn
5. Chris Eubank
6. Joe Calzaghe
7. Carl Froch
8. Mikkel Kessler
9. Bernard Hopkins
10. Jermain Taylor
11. Herold Graham
12. Julian Jackson
13. Sugar Ray Leonard
14. Sven Ottke
15. Gerald McClellan
16. Marvin Hagler

Section 2

1. Ronald Wright
2. James Toney
3. Roberto Duran
4. Thomas Hearns
5. Roy Jones Jr
6. Michael Nunn
7. Montell Griffin
8. Iran Barkley
9. Reggie Johnson
10. William Joppy
11. John Mugabi
12. Alan Minter
13. Hector Camacho
14. Kelly Pavlik
15. Arthur Abraham
16. Cory Spinks

1st Round Draws

Section 1 –

Steve Collins v Sugar Ray Leonard
Chris Eubank v Carl Froch
Bernard Hopkins v Sven Ottke
Michael Watson v Jermain Taylor
Nigel Benn v Marvin Hagler
Gerald McClellan v Mikkel Kessler
Mike McCallum v Joe Calzaghe
Herald Graham v Julian Jackson

Section 2 –

Ronald Wright v Hector Camacho
Roy Jones Jr v Michael Nunn
Reggie Johnson v Kelly Pavlik
Roberto Duran v William Joppy
Thomas Hearns v John Mugabi
Arthur Abraham v Alan Minter
James Toney v Cory Spinks
Iran Barkley v Montell Griffin

Fights will be posted on a weekly basis with 2 fights per week randomly selected

Week 1

Gerald McClellan v Mikkel Kessler and Mike McCallum v Joe Calzaghe

Watch out for these two awesome fights this week

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