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Everyone loves the 70s Heavies but are the 40s middles the greatest division by decade...

Fighters ranked by The Ring at some point in this decade...

Tony Zale
Jake LaMotta
George Abrams
Ken Overlin
Archie Moore
Marcel Cerdan
Rocky Graziano
Ezzard Charles
Lloyd Marshall
Charley Burley
Randy Turpin
Ray Robinson
Ceferino Garcia
Cocoa Kid
Aaron Wade
Dave Sands
Bert Lytell
Holman Williams
Jimmy Bivins
Eddie Booker
Jack Chase
Bobo Olson

I guess Bobo Olson was more 50s...

steve belloise
billy soose
ron richards
shorty hogue
kid tunero
coley welch
jose basora
vince hawkins

It was a great time for middleweights. Would have been even better if it had not been for World War II.

what a role call of great middles - what an era - wont be seen again