H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Al Hostak
Middleweight · United States
Al Hostak ranks #876 in the H&G All-Time Index at Middleweight, with a 71.82 All-Time Index score and a 64-9-11 professional record. His career span on this page is 1932-1949.
- All-time rank
- #876
- H&G All-Time Index
- 71.820-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 64-9-11Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1932-1949
- Data Confidence
- MediumSolid but wider career evidence. Treat close ranks with extra care.
Career story
How Al Hostak's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1933 | 1,589 |
| 1935 | 1,677 |
| 1936 | 1,708 |
| 1937 | 1,742 |
| 1938 | 1,743 |
| 1939 | 1,728 |
| 1940 | 1,709 |
| 1941 | 1,695 |
| 1942 | 1,671 |
| 1944 | 1,686 |
| 1947 | 1,704 |
Why this ranking
Al Hostak ranks #876 with a 71.82 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Freddie Steele in 1938, who reached a 1,959 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also fought Jack Hibbard 4 times, going 1-0-3 across that series. Holding the score back, sustained head-to-head rating level and dominance over contemporaries sit below the field of ranked fighters in this release. Data Confidence is Medium, so the rating should be read with wider uncertainty. Peak-form Elo is 1,743 (±173), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Compare and explore
Put Al Hostak next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Al Hostak actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Freddie Steele#55 · Index 88 · 1938
- Ken Overlin#243 · Index 79 · 1941
- Tony Zale#378 · Index 77 · 1940, 1941
- Harry Matthews#632 · Index 74 · 1942
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Henry Armstrong#3 · Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Barney Ross#14 · Middleweight · 7 overlapping years (1932-1938)
- Marcel Thil#43 · Middleweight · 6 overlapping years (1932-1937)
- Billy Conn#52 · Middleweight · 15 overlapping years (1934-1948)
- Young Corbett III#66 · Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1932-1940)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Middleweight · 15 overlapping years (1934-1948)
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- Marcel Cerdan#162 · Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (1936-1949)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1941-1949)
- Lou Brouillard#253 · Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1932-1940)
- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Middleweight · 16 overlapping years (1934-1949)
- Teddy Yarosz#302 · Middleweight · 11 overlapping years (1932-1942)
- Ceferino Garcia#311 · Middleweight · 13 overlapping years (1933-1945)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 40 bouts we hold full data for from 1932 to 1949, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,743 (peak dated 1938-03-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±173 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.