Most Dangerous/Powerful Weight Classes By KO Percentage

[Left Hook Tua]

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?

[SlySlickSmooth]

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.

[Left Hook Tua]

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.

[-Kev-]

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.

[Luilun]

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

[Hougigo]

105.... King Raymi lives there

[Jim Jeffries]

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.

[LowBlowKO]

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.

[DoktorSleepless]

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

[-PBP-]

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.