Shouldn't KO% come from dividing KO's over wins?

No. Tbh this is probably about the 3rd worst idea proposed on ESB.

 

With green I agree with you that it should count towards KO ratio.

Blue: there is still time enough time to secure a KO, so shouldn't be.


Yellow: It's pretty easy to draw a line with DQ and NC not counting unless in the 12th round.

 

I like to multiply Total KOs by KO%. This way hacks like Deontay wilder dont pollute the all-time list. A guy with 5 fights, 5 kos doesnt get ranked over Joe Louis.




1. Foreman (68kos * 83%) = 57!
2. Joe Louis(57 KOs * 79%)= 45!
3. Wladimir Klitschko (50 kos * 80%)= 40!
4. Rocky Marciano (43kos * 87%)= 37!
5. Vitali Klitschko (41kos * 87%)= 35!

Deontay Wilder (26kos * 100%)= 26!

 

:blood WTF. :yep

 

so you think that if a guy is 1-100 but won his 1 fight by KO he should be listed as having a 100% KO ratio?

 

This **** isn't rocket science. A KO percentage is supposed to represent how often you got the guys in front of you out of there inside the distance. If you lost, you didn't get the guy out of there, plain and simple, end of story.

 

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His post reminded me of this. From the 1.00 min mark.

 

Yeah but come on, Butterbean was like 50-2 with 48 KOs or some **** like that at one point. At the end of the day, statistics can't reflect quality if someone is willing to pad their record hard enough.

 

So I could fight 100 guys and only win 1 fight by KO and I would have a 100% KO rate against my opponents? Sweet!

 

Not entirely true.

Again, the significant stat here is the true KO %.

However, the stat proposed by the OP might tell us something about the fighter.


Let's say a fighter was 40-10-0 with 40 KOs, we might conclude that he was not a very skilled pugilist, but had a helluva punch.

If I were fighting such a guy, I might want to box with him rather than brawl.


Point is, any information whatsoever, properly interpreted, can be of some use or interest.

 

Just not enough of a punch to KO the ten guys that beat him. atsch

 

Is a guy 40-10 with 40 kos really more powerful than someone who's 50-0 with 40 kos?

 

Then do the math yourself if that is the figure YOU want. You are simply wrong in the overall concepts of the math and how it is applied. Your method simply inflates the numbers.