Most Dangerous/Powerful Weight Classes By KO Percentage

Mayweather 3 KOs in 11 fights at WW = 27% KO 0 KOs in 2 fights at JMW = 0% KO Least dangerous/powerful champ eva. 3 KOs in 13 fights at WW up. 2 of those KOs were against guys he dragged up from 140. The other required a sucker punch. TBE doe. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

How about KO's in championship fights? Boxing is different from baseball, basketball and football because the teams aren't all playing the same schedule every season. You have Rigondeaux who is fighting at the championship level in his 8th pro fight, Lomachenko in his 2nd pro fight and Wilder in his 33rd pro fight. Not to knock Wilder but all fighters are brought up differently. If you only compare championship fights it helps eliminate the weak opposition bias.

I think it would make more sense to average the individual KO ratios. (add all the ko ratios together and divide by then 10)

I like things like this so cool idea. Would love to see the logic applied to the boxrec top 25 and top 5 as well, see if we see a major shift from one division to another if those paramenters were applied.

Mayweather 3 KOs in 11 fights at WW = 27% KO 0 KOs in 2 fights at JMW = 0% KO Least dangerous/powerful champ eva. 3 KOs in 13 fights at WW up. 2 of those KOs were against guys he dragged up from 140. The other required a sucker punch. TBE doe.

105.... King Raymi lives there

Criteria: Ring Top 10 Fighters. Weight classes who have a name next to them means that he is the consensus best fighter of the weight division, therefore he was not added to the total. Instead, the weight classes with names to them is seen as how dangerous/safe that weight class is to the consensus best fighter of the respective weight class. Weight classes with "n/a" next to them, means that there is no real best fighter there and all top 10 Fighters were added. HW 255 W (187 KO's) - 73% - W. Klitschko - Danger zone. Most dangerous weight class to fight in! CW 313 W (211 KO's) - 67% - Hernandez LHW 287 W (178 KO's) - 62% - Kovalev SMW 331 W (221 KO's) - 66% - Ward MW 328 W (186 KO's) - 56% - GGG - Second safest weight class to fight in. SWW 267 W (156 KO's) - 58% - Mayweather WW 345 W (235 KO's) - 68% - Mayweather - Second most dangerous weight class. SWW 227 W (139 KO's) - 61% - D. Garcia LW 296 W (176 KO's) - 59% - Crawford SFW 267 W (172 KO's) - 64% - n/a FW 260 W (159 KO's) - 61% - n/a SBW 240 W (158 KO's) - 65% - Rigondeaux BW 286 W (173 KO's) - 60% - n/a SFLW 279 W (181 KO's) - 64% - Inoue FLW 281 W (181 KO's) - 64% - Gonzalez JFLW 290 W (164 KO's) - 56% - n/a Straw 223 W (111 KO's) - 49% - n/a - Safest weight class to fight in. Sometimes it's not the KO it's the amount of punches you take and lighter fighters take more blows to the head there's a reason why lighter fighters are done by 32 compared to heavyweights who fight past 37. Floyd still fights at 37 cause he doesn't get hit much so in case you ask and Rigo doesn't even get hit

Just go on BoxRec and grab the next best guy so you can still have 10 fighters in a division where a consensus champion exists. Only in your original post you said the criteria is Ring Top 10 fighters. Golovkin isn't The Ring's champion, Cotto is. Neither is Kovalev at LHW. I still picked Kovalev and GGG as the best of their weight class because they are the consensus best of their weight class. The top 10 is from The Ring. But there are 11 fighters when you include the champ. I didn't pick The Ring's champs per say, not for all weight classes at least.

Just go on BoxRec and grab the next best guy so you can still have 10 fighters in a division where a consensus champion exists. Only in your original post you said the criteria is Ring Top 10 fighters. Golovkin isn't The Ring's champion, Cotto is. hope cotto kept the tag and receipt on that 160 belt.

It does make sense. Because I wanted to know how dangerous or safe is the weight class FOR the best fighter in it. I wanted to know what is Wlad up against at HW, what is Mayweather up against at WW, what is GGG up against at MW, etc. Now I know. So it makes perfect sense for me. But, now it's easy to find out what the weight class with the highest KO % period, no big deal. Just add the fighters numbers that I excluded and get a percentage calculator. http://www.onlineconversion.com/percentcalc.htm Just go on BoxRec and grab the next best guy so you can still have 10 fighters in a division where a consensus champion exists. Only in your original post you said the criteria is Ring Top 10 fighters. Golovkin isn't The Ring's champion, Cotto is.

Yeah, welterweight has always been my favourite weight class and i think a lot of other fans feel the same. That said there is something irreplaceable about the drama of a HW bout with two true punchers. Its always a split second away from the end. heavyweight has been dead to me for so long..... there was a time when i knew nobodies like bostice, wolfgram, tank williams. now all i know is klitschkos. there's 2 of them right? venus and serena klitschko?

This is an interesting angle for sports betting But I disagree with OP's "consensus pick" for WW and JWW

ko percentage doesn't mean you can punch. calzaghe has a high ko percentage. that's why all these stats are crap for most sports. their nice sometimes but still worthless.

Except your statement is true for every division . They all have bums getting sparked out by top 10 fighters. In the end the numbers don't lie because all other things are equal except weight. numbers do lie, you buffoon. i don't even understand what you're trying to say.

KO % depends on how many bums you fight. KO% should be based on opps with at least 15 wins and a win-loss record ratio no smaller than 3-2. Except your statement is true for every division . They all have bums getting sparked out by top 10 fighters. In the end the numbers don't lie because all other things are equal except weight.

Did it myself, took me 45 minutes. You see how there is data for just about everything in a sport like baseball? For example, what is a batter's average in the day time, and what is it in the night time. What is a teams winning % at home, what is it away. I feel like boxing does not have any reporters, commentators, journalists compiling this information for the fans. Statistical information about every aspect of the sport gives boxing more life. The best they do is talk about compubox and that's not enough IMO. Yeah - I agree that there could be more info out there. Boxstat.co is kinda cute and relatively new and I believe still quite incomplete but like most boxing databases focusses on individual achievements. http://boxstat.co/ Problem is Boxing is a sport that as a whole is it's not easy to apply valid statistical method over and between the varied weightclasses and the different frequencies with which guys fight. Fighters bounce up and down in weight for money fights or climb the weighclasses through their careers, they get injured or simply choose not to fight and that's even before the politics start.... From a stats viewpoint boxing is entirely different to regular team sports with a annual scedule and high frequency of match-ups, or even other individual sports like say tennis with regular top level tournaments, so you gotta be especially wary with interpretation of boxing data. I mean - how do you use comparative stats in a sport in which, in most cases, oponents can be chosen by the likely winner ffs? Me, I just like watching the **** over a few drinks...I've got some stats background but I'll leave that to those more dedicated than myself.

ko percentage doesn't mean you can punch. calzaghe has a high ko percentage.

For those curious about MW with all fighters numbers added: 359 Wins, 214 KO's, 59%.

Which makes it uneven and your stats skewed. If one division has no "best fighter" that's a total of ten fighters, but a division with a best fighter you're adding 9 fighters? Or how do you factor in a lineal champion who is not the "consensus best fighter?" Just make things easier and simply add all the top ten. The stat is more interesting for fans to compare divisions. I'll add a second separate stat to the OP with all 10 fighters.

This goes back to my post. Middleweight is low if you exclude GGG's 28/31 KOs. If you include the entire Rings top ten middleweight list, it's a total of 236 KOs. So again, doesn't make a lot of sense excluding the best fighter. It does make sense. Because I wanted to know how dangerous or safe is the weight class FOR the best fighter in it. I wanted to know what is Wlad up against at HW, what is Mayweather up against at WW, what is GGG up against at MW, etc. Now I know. So it makes perfect sense for me. But, now it's easy to find out what the weight class with the highest KO % period, no big deal. Just add the fighters numbers that I excluded and get a percentage calculator. http://www.onlineconversion.com/percentcalc.htm