Best fighters (among belt holders) of the last 30 years w/ KO rate under 50%

Omar Narváez - 49%
Chris Byrd - 47%
Cristian Mijares - 41%
Hacine Cherifi - 41%
Pernell Whitaker (though his pro debut was technically just outside my 30-year cutoff, in 1984) - 37%

 

Yeah, very weird to consider that and the fact that his fellow top Russian heavyweight of the aughts*, Sultan Ibragimov, logged 71%. It just seems counter-intuitive based on the Wolf having a reputation for trading bombs with tanks like Brewster & Briggs, while Iggy has largely eclipsed most of his other work and been remembered for his very amateur-style exhibition of love-tapping and movement in the Klitschko loss.

(*speaking of whom - SNV actually has a shockingly high 64%)

 

My original hope was to have the names in the OP listed in order from best to worst (something nobody has yet done :twisted) and then from most to least powerful, and compare how different all three lists are, or how much overlap there is between each list's top 5, or 10, or 15.

Very nerdy thread, I admit. :yep

 

...mentioned Spinks in the OP! :banana

 

BJS stands at just a bit over 50, in case anybody had wondered. :good