Post by Tractorpull on Oct 24, 2018 13:26:48 GMT -6
TESS VALMORE
For sometime now, I have been ranting about competition or the lack of it on the part of some fighters. Too many are fighting easy schedules and building up win/loss records. In the last Vix card.we had two glaring examples of that. Mismatches seem more prevalent in the flyweights and bantams. It is less so in the lightweights and particularly the welters were the ranks are thinner. Fortunately all is not lost, as there are a number of fighters at present who are fighting top flight competition with an occasional breather. Strahovski, Winstead, Ferguson and Upton to just name a few. Unfortunately, the word “few” may be the truism
She was termed the Golden Goddess long before she became the GOAT, so how did the Golden Goddess evolve? Did she win all those fights by fighting second tier? Did she look for the easy wins? I decided to take a quick and I mean a very quick survey compared to the amount of data, of how the greatest of all time fared in fighting competition in all four divisions in which she fought over the years. I used all her fights and titles from the beginning to the present day The figures are approximate, but close enough to make a judgement.
After subtracting two JMDD bouts, she fought in 368 fights
Fights against Hall Of Fame members including GLN, who would be in the Hall had she not developed fouling into an art form 72. Approximately 20% of fights was against a Hall of Fame member.
Title bouts 113. Roughly 31% of her fights were title bouts
Bouts against some 30 fighters, who held two or more titles, some holding as many as nine (yes there are fighters with numerous titles who can’t get into the Hall Of Fame), 171. 46% of al fights were against fighters who held two or more titles
Bouts against all title holders-302 82% of all fights were against fighters who had held a title
What about the remaining 18%? Some were in that “Best Never To Hold a Title” category. Some were considered “dangerous” and on a very rare occurrence a newcomer.
For sometime now, I have been ranting about competition or the lack of it on the part of some fighters. Too many are fighting easy schedules and building up win/loss records. In the last Vix card.we had two glaring examples of that. Mismatches seem more prevalent in the flyweights and bantams. It is less so in the lightweights and particularly the welters were the ranks are thinner. Fortunately all is not lost, as there are a number of fighters at present who are fighting top flight competition with an occasional breather. Strahovski, Winstead, Ferguson and Upton to just name a few. Unfortunately, the word “few” may be the truism
She was termed the Golden Goddess long before she became the GOAT, so how did the Golden Goddess evolve? Did she win all those fights by fighting second tier? Did she look for the easy wins? I decided to take a quick and I mean a very quick survey compared to the amount of data, of how the greatest of all time fared in fighting competition in all four divisions in which she fought over the years. I used all her fights and titles from the beginning to the present day The figures are approximate, but close enough to make a judgement.
After subtracting two JMDD bouts, she fought in 368 fights
Fights against Hall Of Fame members including GLN, who would be in the Hall had she not developed fouling into an art form 72. Approximately 20% of fights was against a Hall of Fame member.
Title bouts 113. Roughly 31% of her fights were title bouts
Bouts against some 30 fighters, who held two or more titles, some holding as many as nine (yes there are fighters with numerous titles who can’t get into the Hall Of Fame), 171. 46% of al fights were against fighters who held two or more titles
Bouts against all title holders-302 82% of all fights were against fighters who had held a title
What about the remaining 18%? Some were in that “Best Never To Hold a Title” category. Some were considered “dangerous” and on a very rare occurrence a newcomer.
