Better resume/greater fighter: Floyd Mayweather or Barney Ross

Can we get an overview of Ross' resume?

 

I think Ross' wins over two P4P juggernauts in McLarnin and Canzoneri give him a good case for being slightly ahead of Floyd.

 

At a glance, it seems like he was only doing his thing for like four years whereas Mayweather was around for a decade and a half and covered more of a climb in weight too.

 

Ross by a decent margin for resume alone, but Floyd's pretty close for greatness. I have Ross at twelve or thirteen, and Floyd at about twenty seven, twenty eight. Really, the difference is Ross is just what Mayweather fans think Floyd is.

 

In 1933, he had three meaningful fights, winning them.
In 34, he had four with a loss and a draw included.
In 35, he had four and won them all.
For 36, 37, and 38, it looks like he fought a bunch of journeymen, had two good wins during that time, and then lost Armstrong.

It’s not that impressive of an activity level if you only count boxers who were good enough to have serious Wikipedia entries.

 

If Guerrero fought 80 years ago, he wouldn't have much of a Wikipedia entry either.

If Gatti fought that long ago we wouldn't even know his name.

 

Sure he would’ve. PFP top ten don’t lie.

 

Guerrero or Gatti wouldn't be top 50 P4P in Ross' era. In fact, why on earth was he ranked top 10 in his own? There's no way boxing was so shallow that there wasn't 10 fighters than Robert Guerrero

 

I'm counting like 16 significant wins for Ross while Floyd has at least 20 over multiple divisions with many fighters bigger then him so gonna have to give it to Floyd PfP.

 

Do you consider the number of wins to be more impressive than the names of the wins?

 

I like how the IBHOf separates old timers and modern boxers. It's like comparing George Mikan to Nikola Jokic.