How often do you think BoxRec is wrong?

**The Hammer** · 03-17-2009, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by RTS

I mean I know all the top and known fighters are right but when it comes to unknown fighters from various countries and what not.

I was just watching Juan Manuel Marquez vs Israel Gonzalez.

BoxRec has Gonzalez record listed as 1-6

But in the video Gonzalez is introduced with a record of 13-5 (7 KOs)

Im assuming BoxRec messes up a lot of records. Especially when they have guys listed as 0 fights when you look at knockout artists from say South Americas resume. They probably just put 0 fights because they have no info.

Sometimes boxers are deliberately introduced as having more fights.

Oleg Maskaev fought Oliver McCall, who had KOed Lewis a couple of years before, with a record of only 6-0. But they announced him as being 17-0 or something like that. The fight is in our videos section.

BoxRec is run by volunteers who do a great job. I'm grateful for the time and effort they put into it.

I've found it to be accurate about 99.9% of the time, but of course you will find a mistake here and there, they are only human.

**Joe2608** · 03-17-2009, 11:16 AM

I've found it to be fairly accurate, though obviously it's going to have some faults in it.

**andrewcuff** · 03-17-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally posted by RTS

I mean I know all the top and known fighters are right but when it comes to unknown fighters from various countries and what not.

I was just watching Juan Manuel Marquez vs Israel Gonzalez.

BoxRec has Gonzalez record listed as 1-6

But in the video Gonzalez is introduced with a record of 13-5 (7 KOs)

Im assuming BoxRec messes up a lot of records. Especially when they have guys listed as 0 fights when you look at knockout artists from say South Americas resume. They probably just put 0 fights because they have no info.

Apparently Mayorga's record has been wrong for years too.

Also boxrec has Mayweather KO'ing Hatton when it was the ringpost who did it. (Sorry I just had to make this dig at Weebler!)

**-----------** · 03-17-2009, 11:22 AM

I've noticed a few little mistakes.

But its a great site

And most users on this site have based their entire knowledge of boxing on thier records.

**The Great Shark** · 03-17-2009, 11:45 AM

Why do they do that? Inflating their records like that?

**SickmyDuck** · 03-17-2009, 11:50 AM

Originally posted by andrewcuff

Apparently Mayorga's record has been wrong for years too.

Also boxrec has Mayweather KO'ing Hatton when it was the ringpost who did it. (Sorry I just had to make this dig at Weebler!)

I've never heard about that.

**-Swizzy-** · 03-17-2009, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by RTS

I mean I know all the top and known fighters are right but when it comes to unknown fighters from various countries and what not.

I was just watching Juan Manuel Marquez vs Israel Gonzalez.

BoxRec has Gonzalez record listed as 1-6

But in the video Gonzalez is introduced with a record of 13-5 (7 KOs)

Im assuming BoxRec messes up a lot of records. Especially when they have guys listed as 0 fights when you look at knockout artists from say South Americas resume. They probably just put 0 fights because they have no info.

I've never heard of this before but all I got to say is BoxRec is the best boxing site there is for rankings. I don't take any rankings seriously other than my own, but I respect boxrec's calculated ranking more than any other site.

**joe90210** · 03-17-2009, 12:28 PM

I trust boxrec more, if you believe the records that the fighters are introduced with during fight time then nobody in boxing would have a worse record than 32-4

How often do you think BoxRec is wrong?