Check this very interesting link folks:
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Di...rs_of_All-Time
It raises so many questions. Of course there's the standard question whether one agrees on the rankings or not, but the real puzzle to me is how some fighters have a very significant change in their ranking from 1975 to 1998.
How about these weird placings:
1: Ezzard Charles from unranked in 1975 to no. 1 in 1998. I mean wtf?
2: Battling Nelson from no. 3 in 1975 to not in top 20 in 2001. It's not like he was leapfrogged by fighters having the majority of their careers between 1975 and 2001 so that's really weird.
Now these are just a couple of oddities, I'm sure there's many more, but it shows how much so-called experts differ in opinion when making these all-time rankings.
A note regarding Ezzard Charles: I seem to remember how some poster on this board actually mentioned how the general perception of Charles's body of work has changed in recent decades and that he wasn't highly regarded among his contemporaries. Whatever. It's just weird.
Any thoughts on the rankings in particular or comments on the oddities that is so prevalent (not limited to the couple I mentioned).
http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Di...rs_of_All-Time
It raises so many questions. Of course there's the standard question whether one agrees on the rankings or not, but the real puzzle to me is how some fighters have a very significant change in their ranking from 1975 to 1998.
How about these weird placings:
1: Ezzard Charles from unranked in 1975 to no. 1 in 1998. I mean wtf?
2: Battling Nelson from no. 3 in 1975 to not in top 20 in 2001. It's not like he was leapfrogged by fighters having the majority of their careers between 1975 and 2001 so that's really weird.
Now these are just a couple of oddities, I'm sure there's many more, but it shows how much so-called experts differ in opinion when making these all-time rankings.
A note regarding Ezzard Charles: I seem to remember how some poster on this board actually mentioned how the general perception of Charles's body of work has changed in recent decades and that he wasn't highly regarded among his contemporaries. Whatever. It's just weird.
Any thoughts on the rankings in particular or comments on the oddities that is so prevalent (not limited to the couple I mentioned).
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