Sherdog’s Top 10: Greatest Middleweights Ever

Welcome again folks, this time to Sherdog’s list of the 10 greatest middleweights ever. It was compiled based on a weighted poll of 12 Sherdog contributors, and I will note where my own views deviated considerably from the consensus. Personally, though, the appeal of any such list is not the exact order or who was included or excluded but the actual discussion of each entry. Anyone can come up with a list with no further commentary, and it is no more “right” than another. However, the best such lists have entertaining and informative explanations, which is the goal I hope to accomplish.

A word about criteria: The main measure for this list was greatness for one’s era and how long that era…