May Madness - Middleweights

[Kid Achilles]

Is there a way to keep the votes secret? It would be cool not knowing who is going to win before the fight happens.

[blockhead]

weird ass randy turpin, i am glad he got included, his style was so ****ing weird.

[K-DOGG]

Some additions to K-DOGG's list:

Charley Burley
Lloyd Marshall
Holman Williams
Les Darcy
Sam Langford - might be unfair since he'd probably wipe the floor with any middleweight in history.

Damn. Can't believe I forgot Burley and Williams. I'll have to look the others up, truthfully. Thanks for the additions!

Oh, and Langford, I think would be a bit much. I almost added him; but didn't for the same reason you listed.

[K-DOGG]

Is there a way to keep the votes secret? It would be cool not knowing who is going to win before the fight happens.

Ooo. Good suggestion. Have a vote on each fight for a certain period of time and then reveal the winner...with the reason.

[Yogi]

I hope Langford is included.

[Yogi]

I'd like to throw the names of Mike Gibbons, Tommy Ryan, Frank Klaus, Panama Joe Gans, and Jeff Smith into the mix if this thing is going 64 deep...I think they would all belong in that large of a field, for sure, and some of those I think belong in a 32 man field.

P.S. Why not stick to a straight middleweight tournament without the supers & juniors added (unless they fought at middleweight), because there's been more than enough talent at 160 to fill the field no matter the amount of inclusions?

[oldgringo]

Guys...not to rock the boat because this isn't my thread or idea or anything, but...

don't you think we should have more of an equal mix of older and newer fighters? a lot of the names i've seen so far have been guys pre-1980's and it would be better to incorporate some of the newer posters by getting some more recent names in there...no??? i mean, we could include all kinds of good old fighters like billy papke, jack dillon, kid mckoy and ceferino garcia...i just dont think that'd be fair for everyone.

anyway, just a thought.

[Brassangel]

All right, let's cut it to just the 160's then. That way we can keep it a little cleaner, and incorporate new and old. Soon we'll have a bracket.

[Brassangel]

If you want to vote without anybody knowing so that the story can be surprising to everybody, you could PM me or something and I'll give you my e-mail address. No idiots who plan on spamming me, however.

I want to include, regardless of weight:

Robinson
Leonard
Hagler
Duran
Hopkins
Jones, Jr.
Burley
Williams
Langford
LaMotta
Graziano
Trinidad...

...and a million more.

[K-DOGG]

If you want to vote without anybody knowing so that the story can be surprising to everybody, you could PM me or something and I'll give you my e-mail address. No idiots who plan on spamming me, however.

I want to include, regardless of weight:

Robinson
Leonard
Hagler
Duran
Hopkins
Jones, Jr.
Burley
Williams
Langford
LaMotta
Graziano
Trinidad...

...and a million more.

*whistles* Having Langford in is going to make this interesting as hell.