Dear friends, Kind regards, We all know that Boxrec's ratings are...weird. Anomalies pop up due to garbage in, garbage out algorithms and strange practices like letting guys coming up from lower weights keep their points. But they do represent the only attempt that I know of to rate fighters according to accomplishment in a mathematical fashion. Thus, they are interesting. A number of heavyweights that you might not think of as being great make their top 50 historical ratings, along with the champs we all know, and a guys like Wills, Jeanette and Langford that we would all agree on. My questions is this: who amongst these heavyweights, rated by boxrec in the top 50, would you agree might belong there? I could probably go Elmer Ray for one: Billy Miske Elmer Ray Young Stribling Melio Bettina Zora Foley Bob Satterfield Jimmy Ellis Joe Baksi Bob Pastor Lee Oma Lee Q. Murray Jerry Quarry Ernest Terrell Erine Schaff Nino Valdez Clarence Henry
they keep tweaking them for favoured outcomes, i.e Modern Centric, this is the present demographic, the site users, well informed or not and keeping Today's hype machine alive, promoting 'now' as the Best EVER, floating a Dead Sport with Hype, BS and all the Weigh in Press Events before & after fights and of course all the attention seeker arrogance & stare down mouthing off circus acts... well of course all the sideshow followers will keep 'clicking' in. they think it does Boxing good, but Fighters still don't fight, meet who they should and Hyped up and RATED 20 fight chumpions, who if they had real careers of at least 60 or 70 fights or more, over 15 & 20 years, would have been pounded out less than half way through and can only dream about such a career. BoxRec Ratings are ridiculous, though going back 15 years or so, at least they were more acceptable, now they are just trying to please all the a fore mentioned demograph.
Bob Pastor maybe? Has a case for the greatest Jewish heavyweight ever, depending upon of you view Max Baer as Jewish. Bob had a respectable final record of 53 wins only 7 losses and 5 draws. He faced and defeated numerous top black challengers of the day which was still kind of rare for many white heavyweights. Among some of the top black boxers he beat were Jimmy Bivins, Lem Franklin, Roscoe Toles, Booker Beckwith, unknown Winston, Turkey Thompson and others. He also defeated Lee Ramage and held draws with top fighters like Maxie Rosenbloom, Tami Mauriello and Lou Nova. i think a Case could be made
