So as some of you may be aware boxrec does not count newspaper decisions towards statistics. This seriously effects the KO rate statistics of fighters who fought in the early 20th century when a large percentage of decisions were "NWS". I keep leaderboard files based on this information and I've spent the last few days updating my KO rate lists. Here are HW and LHW contenders KO rates if their newspaper decision wins are counted. This only lists the contenders who had newspaper decision wins. 90.91 Goddard 90.20 Ketchel 88.33 Buddy Baer 86.36 Retzlaff 85.00 Australian Jim Ryan 84.09 Fulton 83.33 Bob Armstrong 83.33 Berlenbach 82.98 Slavin 82.46 Carl Morris 82.35 Fitzsimmons 82.02 Carnera 81.48 Dave Maier 80.74 Peter Maher 80.65 Hart 80.00 Willard 78.21 Charles McCoy 78.05 Frank Moran 76.74 Art Lasky 75.86 Jack Dempsey 75.00 Max Baer 75.00 Steve O Donnell 74.70 Fireman Jim Flynn 74.58 Choynski 74.47 Coffey 73.08 Jim Hall 72.73 Munroe 72.55 Colin Bell 71.79 Floyd Johnson 71.05 Kid Carter 69.90 Elmer Ray 69.23 Lee Savold 66.67 Battling Jim Johnson 66.67 Terry Mustain 66.28 Cyclone Thompson 65.25 Tiger Jack Fox 64.15 Sheppard 64.10 Brennan 64.00 Kaufman 64.00 Tut Ryan 63.64 Paycheck 62.92 Wills 62.07 Jim Savage 61.76 Gus Ruhlin 61.72 Langford 61.19 Schreck 60.81 Jack Delaney 60.00 Tunney 60.00 Tim O Neill 60.00 Pelkey 59.84 Jeanette 58.33 Felix 57.43 Broullard 56.41 Tony Ross 56.25 Jim Barry 56.14 Peter Jackson 55.88 Jack Johnson 55.77 Jim Maloney 55.74 Siki 53.60 Knight 51.56 Stribling 51.28 Rodel 50.98 Braddock 50.00 Dooley 49.48 Tommy Gibbons 49.09 McTigue 48.44 Pierre Charles 48.15 Gunboat Smith 47.95 Miske 47.50 Tuffy Griffiths 46.88 Mickey Walker 45.83 Bain 44.74 Jack Sharkey 44.74 Slattery 44.44 Mantell 43.59 Hugo Kelly 42.86 Philadelphia Jack O Brien 42.47 Weinart 42.00 Clay Turner 40.31 Godwin 39.66 Schaaf 39.50 Al McCoy(the one who fought Joe Louis) 35.48 George Nicholas 35.44 Scozza 35.14 Jack Twin Sullivan 34.74 Dillon 34.63 Ted Kid Lewis 33.33 Wiggins 32.26 Nate Bolden 30.16 Dudas 29.00 Pete Latzo 26.25 Risko 19.62 Greb 19.05 Moha 16.67 Battling Levinsky 14.69 Leo Houck 12.10 Loughran 10.71 Rosenbloom 7.41 Bob McAllister This still counts DQs as KOs. Fighters only have a few DQ wins on their resume so the difference isn't that big and not worth the effort. If boxrec counts DQ it means I have to change the number for every single contender in all eras and I'm not doing that.