Would this be a better guideline to who makes the hall of fame?

I respect you went through a lot of effort, but I can't see it myself. Sorry

 

Using your criteria, Floyd Mayweather gets in right now ... no questions asked.

I think the only criteria he misses is was he prevented from getting a shot (never) ... (unless you count Pacquaio not wanting to fight him for years and vice versa) and was he out for more than three years before making an impressive comeback (he was out for two).

You could almost check off every box when looking at his career.

Also, using your criteria, Jack Dempsey gets removed from the Hall of Fame. Immediately. (As would most of the guys he beat who are in the hall.)

I think Demspey qualifies for eight of the 15.

So ... kinda controversial. I think Mayweather should qualify right now. But I don't know if Dempsey "waters down" the Hall of Fame.

 

Champions, Contenders and TOP Noted fighters...

Longevity
Opponents
Number of fights... (example - mickey mouse titles won at 16 fights, defended a few times need not apply. unless of course they are fought and won against above legitimate fighters.

History documents, thousands of Great Fighters, Thousands... so being stupidly stringent (stupidly), would eliminate Hundreds of fighters who ARE/Were EQUALLY GREAT.

the truth is too many already lose out, why would you want to deny further possible entrants yet?

 

I don't think Maywather is a lock for the hof. I KNOW he is. He is getting in on the first ballot, no questions ask, best fighter of his era, rule for a really long time, I don't see him missing the cut on his first year.

 

Hell yeah mayweathers a lock. For sakes, Ray Mancini just got in. All the Halls of Fame in evry sport are popularity contests. Mancini and Gatti are NOT great fighters. As a paper champ, after Arguello had already KO'd him, the Boomer avoided every ranked fighter in the top ten and gave the shots to non entities. And still had a hard time. He hid behind the repulsive WBA mandates and avoided good fighters. He is in for the sme reason King and Suliman are in: he brings in fans to the induction. Why is Pintor not in? He pd fpd would have to poor Ray's head off. The great and recently dead Ken Stabler is not in the football hall. Concepcion not in baseball hall. It is a popularity contest.

 

Really wish they didn't get rid of the gen forum for bs talk.

But I felt Ken Stabler should of been in the hall LONG ago. In his time, stat wise, only Fran and Rodger were better, yeah Terry had more rings, but he was just as likely to give the ball to the other team, were that fame defense would preform. Stabler has a ring, has about ten good years of winning, and perhaps was the 3rd or 4th best QB in his era. I don't know why he is not in the hall.

The NFL should be ashamed that Stabler is not in the hall, and more ashamed that Stabler died, and didn't get that gold jacket that he earn in his life time.

 

An interesting concept, but most of the above is still just as arbitrary as what's in place now.

 

Amen Brother. As Picasso said, so it goes for the Snake"Drink to me you know I can't drink anymore".

 

Good topic, great effort.

Are there any instances where this would exclude any current Hall of Famer? I can't think of any?

 

They certainly would, and your right some names are in their that you could make a case for, but might not warrant a place. Criteria does seem a little bit harsh in some areas, excuse my laziness for not finding examples of who wouldn't make it but should.

 

The problem here is that you can click almost every box for a guy without ever having to watch him box. You're just going off titbits of information.

This isn't top trumps.