#24 P4P Greatest Fighter all time.. Do you agree???? Do you have him in you top 100 All-time?? Where then?
Boxrec uses a computer algorithm for all their rankings. In seeking objectivity, inevitably, there will be anomalies. This being one of them, clearly...
Calzaghe was a special fighter, there's really no such thing as pound for pound tho so why get wrapped up in stupid BoxRec lists we all know BoxRec is crap
Dunno about 25 of all time but I would rank him above Andre Ward & Bernard Hopkins (which he isnt per Boxrec) but behind Roy Jones (again he isnt).
So I think he's ranked so high because he beat some great fighters and never lost to anybody. I suspect that the Boxrec gizmo doesn't take into account what stage of the career the other fighter was when he lost to him. So over the hill RJJ = prime RJJ so far as the AI is concerned. etc ...
The last time I looked, they had Hopkins in the top 10 along with De La Hoya. As someone else has already pointed out, they use their own algorithm. Every knowledgeable fan knows that they’re a complete joke. The sad thing is, you get the casual element that lap it all up, especially on social media. It’s really annoying to me, because some of my favourite fighters, guys like Mike McCallum, don’t even get listed anywhere near the top 50-100 on most lists. So something like this is just an insult to a fighter like that. It’s now becoming rarer to see guys like Robinson, Greb and Langford in the top 5-10. Although these lists are all highly subjective, there’s got to be a certain criteria to follow.
He's actually way too low when you factor in he was trained in rickety old dilapidated large shed which didn't even have a proper ring and was a health hazard to even be around by a musician father who'd never boxed before and he's hands were a mess long before he even turned pro, like almost a decade before he did so, and he was a clean natural fighter not a walking PED factory like many of his peers and fellow greats who literally jumped in a car at the start of the race and drove to the finish line as opposed to running it on foot the good old-fashioned honest way like Joe did.