H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Bobo Olson
Middleweight · United States
Bobo Olson ranks #160 in the H&G All-Time Index at Middleweight, with a 81.48 All-Time Index score and a 97-16-2 professional record. His career span on this page is 1945-1966.
- All-time rank
- #160
- H&G All-Time Index
- 81.480-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 97-16-2Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1945-1966
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Bobo Olson'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 |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 1,644 |
| 1946 | 1,647 |
| 1947 | 1,694 |
| 1948 | 1,746 |
| 1949 | 1,782 |
| 1950 | 1,805 |
| 1951 | 1,829 |
| 1952 | 1,857 |
| 1953 | 1,859 |
| 1954 | 1,857 |
| 1955 | 1,831 |
| 1956 | 1,771 |
| 1957 | 1,742 |
| 1958 | 1,724 |
| 1959 | 1,716 |
| 1960 | 1,685 |
| 1961 | 1,645 |
| 1962 | 1,640 |
| 1963 | 1,643 |
| 1964 | 1,638 |
| 1965 | 1,625 |
| 1966 | 1,605 |
Why this ranking
Bobo Olson ranks #160 with a 81.48 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Kid Gavilan in 1954, who reached a 1,834 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also fought Ray Robinson 4 times, going 0-4-0 across that series. Our fight-by-fight records do not add up to his full public win-loss-draw total, so the head-to-head details here are a partial picture. Peak-form Elo is 1,859 (±168), 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 repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Compare and explore
Put Bobo Olson next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Bobo Olson actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Index 97 · 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956
- Archie Moore#16 · Index 93 · 1955
- Kid Gavilan#147 · Index 82 · 1954
- Lloyd Marshall#424 · Index 76 · 1951
- Jose Torres#818 · Index 72 · 1964
- Joey Maxim#896 · Index 72 · 1955, 1957
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- Dave Sands#906 · Index 72 · 1950, 1951
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.
- Jose Napoles#34 · Super Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1958-1966)
- Ezzard Charles#38 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight · 14 overlapping years (1946-1959)
- Emile Griffith#46 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1959-1966)
- Rocky Marciano#54 · Cruiserweight · 9 overlapping years (1947-1955)
- Floyd Patterson#64 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight · 15 overlapping years (1952-1966)
- Gene Fullmer#85 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 13 overlapping years (1951-1963)
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- Harold Johnson#104 · Light Heavyweight · 21 overlapping years (1946-1966)
- Luis Rodriguez#113 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1959-1966)
- Dick Tiger#150 · Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 15 overlapping years (1952-1966)
- Tippy Larkin#223 · Super Welterweight · 7 overlapping years (1946-1952)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Middleweight / Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1946-1954)
- Jimmy Bivins#258 · Light Heavyweight · 10 overlapping years (1946-1955)
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 79 bouts we hold full data for from 1946 to 1966, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,859 (peak dated 1953-10-21). 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 ±168 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.