Quote Originally Posted by OnixAA View Post

If a fighter has 100 fights say like JCC does that mean he is remembered as a greater figter than a guy with say 50 fights? I know that opposition plays a role and that in 100 fights you have alot of bums in there but that also shows alot of persistency.
IMHO, not necessarily. I did some stats a while back on Chavez. Though no doubt he's a well-deserved ATG, he did pad his stats incredibly by fighting a bunch of bums for his first 40-some fights.

When you take his opponents won-loss records on a cummulative basis, he didn't reach the .500 mark until his 45th fight. Before that, his record was filled with a bunch of fighters with records like 8-17 and 0-8. He was even fighting debutantes (fighters with 0-0 records) as late as his 42nd fight.

All his early fights were in Mexico, no doubt against bums off the street anxious to make a quick buck. How else to explain the following stretch:

Opp # 14: 0-0
Opp # 15: 0-0
Opp # 16: 0-0
Opp # 17: 0-0
Opp # 18: 0-6 (at least he had fought)

Is it any wonder Junior is getting coddled so much?