Five Star Ratings

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I'd give fighters like Ray Robinson and Joe Louis (and many more) 5 Stars
Yeah they lost but these guys were having 12/15 even 20 (SRR) fights per year
Robinson Lost only 1 pro fight in over 130 which is incredible and that loss was to another legend Jake Lamotta.
Makes no difference to me if a fighter has loses, Ali and Lennox Lewis are two other great fighters who both lost more than once.
Some people will naturally only give a fighter 5 stars if he's undefeated (Marciano, Mayweather etc) but turn it on it's head and think that Robinson went on an unbeaten run of fights which nearly DOUBLES Marcianos entire list of fights and that Robinson also had more fights in a 4 year period than Floyd had in a 20 year period and then went on to fight Another 150 times

So hard to compare old school fighters to todays fighters

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Losing shouldn't discounted a fighters rating. But rating someone 100/100 or 5/5 would be rare for me. Robinson a 5 or 4.99, 98/100 I don't know?

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Maybe it's years of entrenched skepticism or cynicism that boxing can leave on you but I have a hard time rating any active fighter as a 5. Major factor being who'd they fight and performance. Nearly all have an off night, dropped, rocked, gifted a decision or flat lose at some point. Being undefeated doesn't make you spectacular if all you're doing is blowing out set ups and part time stunt men. But I also think p4p is largely a marketing tag more than a realistic read of the 'best' boxers on the planet . You should also lose points if you pretend to be a middleweight, talk up the best fighter in full shit talking fashion but then leave a puddle as you walk the other way .