IBD's all-time rankings
Posted: 28 Nov 2003, 04:33
Was looking through some old boxing magazines yesterday, when I came across the International Boxing Digest November/December 1997 issue.
In it IBD's editor Herbert Goldman has put together an all-time ranking of fighters based on "peak value" and "career value" as criterias. I'm not sure as to what exactly that means, but any way I look at it, this Goldman guy put togehter one of the most disturbing all-time P4P top 30 rankings I have ever seen. I would have thought that the editor of IBD had come up with something better than this, I was wrong.
First of all, he has Roy Jones Jr. as no. 1! Jones, who at this point was 35-1, hadn't even unified the 175 lbs division yet ,is considered by Goldman to be the all-time greatest/best fighter. How sick is that?!
At no. 4 he has Ray Leonard. Good fighter, yes, but is he the fourth greatest/best fighter of all time? Hell no!
No. 12 - Oscar De La Hoya, who at this point was 26-0 and had recently won a disputed decision of Pernell Whitaker and outpointed a Hector Camacho who was at least a decade romoved from his prime.
The rest of the list he has mostly the right names, I suppose, but many of them are will be wrongly rated in the eyes of most. Example: Henry Armstrong is no. 20 and Joe Louis is no. 22, while Thomas Hearns and Julio Cesar Chavez are no. 11 and 13. respectively.
Of course, no one will ever agree 100% with another persons pound for pound ranking, but surley most people will agree that this ranking is twisted?
Looking forward to your comments.
Alister
In it IBD's editor Herbert Goldman has put together an all-time ranking of fighters based on "peak value" and "career value" as criterias. I'm not sure as to what exactly that means, but any way I look at it, this Goldman guy put togehter one of the most disturbing all-time P4P top 30 rankings I have ever seen. I would have thought that the editor of IBD had come up with something better than this, I was wrong.
First of all, he has Roy Jones Jr. as no. 1! Jones, who at this point was 35-1, hadn't even unified the 175 lbs division yet ,is considered by Goldman to be the all-time greatest/best fighter. How sick is that?!
At no. 4 he has Ray Leonard. Good fighter, yes, but is he the fourth greatest/best fighter of all time? Hell no!
No. 12 - Oscar De La Hoya, who at this point was 26-0 and had recently won a disputed decision of Pernell Whitaker and outpointed a Hector Camacho who was at least a decade romoved from his prime.
The rest of the list he has mostly the right names, I suppose, but many of them are will be wrongly rated in the eyes of most. Example: Henry Armstrong is no. 20 and Joe Louis is no. 22, while Thomas Hearns and Julio Cesar Chavez are no. 11 and 13. respectively.
Of course, no one will ever agree 100% with another persons pound for pound ranking, but surley most people will agree that this ranking is twisted?
Looking forward to your comments.
Alister