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

We do indeed. as I say, i love your breakdowns I just have slightly different criteria.

you say much better, that would be true if I was trying to say something here. People can make their own minds up, I just want to list notable opposition to allow for quick resume comparisons. If people want to dig deeper into the context they certainly can do.

Listing top 10 at the time is far more time consuming and is something I just don't have the time to do. If someone wishes to do so they are welcome to, ofcourse, but it wouldn't match my end game either.

Just to put a counter example.

Ortiz is fighting Floyd who is unranked, does it degenrate the victory at all? not IMO.

I know De leon and Maxim are ranked HW's that's specifically why I used them as examples to highlight a key difference.

You knowledge is invaluable and is clearly beneficial since you have information about eveyr ranked fighter where as my info is more limited.

I just like to draw a broad picture. I put the info out there, people can make of it what they want.

 

yes the first page is totally up to date from all the suggestions so far.

My criteria is as follows:

I count any HW fight against an opponent who has been a title holder and or been top 10 ranked by the ring or Matt D. Prior to Matt D's rankings I've just listed guys I could find clippings of them being considered legit contenders at some point. Janitor claimed I'd sold them short but didn't come up with any extra names.

 

The reason I use the ring rankings is just through consistency.

I have not checked out the rankings of the other belt holdes, nor do I wish to. Ring is the only recognised belt that ranks every all the fighters. That for me is enough to separate it from the others.

Every ring champ today is the best in their division and no other belt can claim the same.

Some other divisions don't have a recognised champ that should have imo: cunningham, pacman, gamboa, nishioka all are recognised as the premiere in their division also.

 

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Thank you, I will look into both cases and amend away.

I think I need also to include archie moore who was arguably the best hw in the world when patterson beat him.

Once the school day is over i'll get onto it since i've prepared my lessons for the next few day so I should have plenty of time on my hands tonight.

 

To be fair, entering an online ranking for the week isn't impressive to me.

Being published in the monthly rankings is the better criteria imo.