Some random knockout stats.

[Vendettos]

Most of us know these facts but for those who don't, here you go.

Top 15 Boxers (Champs, Contenders, Interims=EBU, IBF, WBA, World Boxing Championships [inactive], WBC, WBO, World Colored Championships [inactive]) by KO Percentages.

1.Edwin Valero (100%)
2.Carlos Zarate Serna (90%)
3.Gennady Golovkin (88.88%)
4.Rocky Marciano (87.76%)
5.Wilfredo Gomez, Aaron Pryor, Laila Ali (87.5%)
6.Vitali Klitschko (87.23%)
7.Lucas Matthysse (86.11%)
8.David Haye (85.71%)
9.Khaosia Galaxy (85.42)
10.Frank Bruno (84.44%)
11.James Kirkland, Mikey Garcia (84.38%)
12.George Foreman (83.95%)
13.Miguel Angel Garcia (83.87%)
14.Samson Dutch Boy Gym (83.72%)
15.Charlie Weir, Lucia Rijker (82.35%)
16.Adrian Broner (81.48%)


Top 15 Pro Boxers by Most KOs

Billy Bird (138 )
Archie Moore (131)
Young Stribling (129)
Sam Langford (128 )
Buck Smith (120)
Kid Azteca (114)
George Odwell (111)
Sugar Ray Robinson, Alabama Kid (108 )
Peter Maher (107)
Sandy Saddler (103)
Henry Armstrong (101)
Joe Gans (100)
Jimmy Wilde (98 )
Len Wickwar (93)
Jorge Fernando Castro, Fred Galiana (90)

Most consecutive KOs

Lamar Clark (44)

Most 1st Round KOs and Most Consecutive 1st Round KOs

Most 1st round KOs: Young Otto (42)
Consecutive: Tyrone Brunson (19)





I didn't write this, just some facts for people to enjoy.

[IamInuit]

Great stuff. Its downright criminal that Azteca never got a title shot nor Langford. One can only imagine what Wildes total tally would have been had they counted some of his earlier fights. Good ole Len Wickwar. Dude fought close to 500 times

[Vendettos]

Great stuff. Its downright criminal that Azteca never got a title shot nor Langford. One can only imagine what Wildes total tally would have been had they counted some of his earlier fights. Good ole Len Wickwar. Dude fought close to 500 times

Yeah mate, there are a few of them that you'd like too watch they're early fights but they just aren't available

[Beanflicker]

WOW, all this time I thought Moore had the overall KO record. Never even heard of Billy Bird

[Fenster]

Some of those old boys records are hilarious. They're having 15 round rematches THREE DAYS after the first fight.

Len Wickwar's near 500 fights happened in just a 19 year career. Floyd has been a pro for 17 years (44 fights)

Mental.

[Vendettos]

WOW, all this time I thought Moore had the overall KO record. Never even heard of Billy Bird

I knew it would help at least one person Birds knockout ratio is actually below 40% which give you an idea of how many fights he had lol.

Some of those old boys records are hilarious. They're having 15 round rematches THREE DAYS after the first fight.

Len Wickwar's near 500 fights happened in just a 19 year career. Floyd has been a pro for 17 years (44 fights)

Mental.

Yeah but the quality of boxing is better now. It is probably tougher to have 1 fight with a fighter of today than 5 with a fighter of then.

Nonetheless they didn't know this so the courage is admirable!

[Beanflicker]

And Floyd can make more in one fight (adjusted for inflation of course) than Warwick did in all 500 plus fights or whatever he had.

I'm glad things have improved and guys don't have to fight 500 times anymore. Boxing is a brutal game. Get in, make money, and get out while you can still spell your name.

[Fenster]

Err yeah... I was clearly using Floyd as a comparison because he's the best in the world. Those old boys couldn't make what Floyd does for one fight if they had 50,000 let alone 500.

The quality of boxing is better now? You'll get some stern opposition to that view from some quarters. I forget what that guys name is that used to call Haye "13" all the time? Waxed lyrical about the old boys. He disappeard but there are some mega debates on here where he swears blind, among others, maybe even @IamInuit and @Rantcatrat, that boxing has regressed considerably.

[Beanflicker]

Regressed in terms of skill you mean? What would be the cause of that, I wonder?

[Vendettos]

Err yeah... I was clearly using Floyd as a comparison because he's the best in the world. Those old boys couldn't make what Floyd does for one fight if they had 50,000 let alone 500.

The quality of boxing is better now? You'll get some stern opposition to that view from some quarters. I forget what that guys name is that used to call Haye "13" all the time? Waxed lyrical about the old boys. He disappeard but there are some mega debates on here where he swears blind, among others, maybe even @IamInuit and @Rantcatrat, that boxing has regressed considerably.

My opinion isn't based to potential skill, actual skill or understanding of boxing, but purely the conditioning and extreme training nowadays, plus the increased size factor.

You can fit the power and strength of a big man into a little body.

I know Rocky Marciano had a great engine and chin, but he ain't lasting 15 or even 12 rounds for that matter against a decent HW of today.

I'm sorry but he couldn't take the hits from a Wladimir Klitschko that long, like he could against the smaller guys he fought, even if he fought Tyson, Tyson would have had a fairly simple KO.

But then again this is only my opinion.

[Fenster]

Apparently reading about something trumps seeing it with your own eyes. And boxing is so complicated that modern people lost the ability to learn and mimic.

[Spicoli]

Good stuff! Champ Khaosai Galaxy has to squeeze into the top ten though. Dude was well into eighty percent.

[Vendettos]

Good stuff! Champ Khaosai Galaxy has to squeeze into the top ten though. Dude was well into eighty percent.

Good info mate, I edited him in.

[IamInuit]

Good stuff! Champ Khaosai Galaxy has to squeeze into the top ten though. Dude was well into eighty percent.

Good info mate, I edited him in.

Wilder is at 100% also

[IamInuit]

Some of those old boys records are hilarious. They're having 15 round rematches THREE DAYS after the first fight.

Len Wickwar's near 500 fights happened in just a 19 year career. Floyd has been a pro for 17 years (44 fights)

Mental.

Indeed just nuts. Greb fought 49 times in a year and I thing either Otto or Stribling even more. Gans finishes a fight and then jumps on a train all night to meet Langford on the very next day.