HW resume against opponents who have, at one time or another, featured in the top 10.

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  1. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, it's taken years and I am not done yet. I just started 1998 with all the other weight classes.

    I have each boxer, there weight class(es), when they were 1st rated, when they were last rated, the months they were rated and there highest ratings. Like I stated before, some years had more then 12 issues and 1 year, had only 4.
     
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  2. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The only time Botha could have been rated was back in 1996 or 1997 and I just checked again, and his name doesn't appear anywhere.
     
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  3. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Credit where it's due. Solid effort.

    Did solis not get in the month before he fought vitali? I was sure he was rated at the time of the fight ya know.
     
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  4. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Solis was rated back in 2014, sorry!
     
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  5. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    thanks for clearing that up, there was some debate about it in the general.
     
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  6. johnmaff36

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    I dont doubt you for a minute HH, but does this mean that Botha was IBF champ yet wasnt top 10 rated by any of the organisations?
     
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  7. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I am going by the Ring Magazine ratings.
     
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  8. lufcrazy

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    Failed the drug test didn't he.
     
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  9. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    yeah, he got stripped didnt he.
     
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  10. Boxed Ears

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    BGH. Buffalo Growth Hormone.
     
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  11. hhascup

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    Here's all the Heavyweights Holyfield faced that were rated in the top 10 at one time or another.

    Evander Holyfield
    Tillis, Thomas, Dokes, Rodrigues, Douglas, Foreman, Cooper, Holmes, Bowe (x3), Moorer (x2), Mercer, Tyson (x2), Lewis (x2)*, Ruiz (x3)**, Rahman, Byrd, Toney, Oquendo, Ibragimov, Valuev*, Ossie Ocasio, Larry Donald, Alex Stewart (2) & Carlos DeLeon.

    He fought 24 different Heavyweights that were rated in the top 10 at one time or another, a total of 32 times

    Other top 10 contenders he fought but weren't as Heavyweights are:
    Davis
    Qawi (2)
    Tillman
    Parkey
    Czyz

    So he fought 29 different Opponents that were rated in the top 10 at one time or another, for a total of 38 times.

    So 2/3 or 66.7% of his 57 fights were against fighters that were rated in the top 10 at one time or another. He is 4th on the all-time Heavyweight list, only behind Ali, Louis & Charles. Ali has a % of over 80% (80.33%).
     
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  12. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I am going by the Ring Magazine Ratings and none of those were ever rated in the top 10 by them. They might have been by the IBF, WBA, WBC or WBO but not by Ring.

    PS - Holyfield is actually #4 on the all-time list if your counting the Heavyweight Champions that fought other top 10 contenders in other weight classes. Ali, Louis, Charles and then Holyfield.
     
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  13. lufcrazy

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    your breakdowns are fantastic, I just want to note one key difference.

    A fight happening in another weight class doesn't count for me. i.e. patterson v maxim, Holyfield v De leon etc.

    I only count title holders and top 10 ring ranked fighters when I do the resume breakdowns.
     
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  14. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Both Maxim and DeLeon were rated at one time or another as Heavyweights.
     
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  15. lufcrazy

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    yes they were, but patterson fought maxim as a lhw and holyfield fought de leon as a cruiser weight. see what I mean?

    I don't believe a LHW fight should count towards a HW resume.
     
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