H&G All-Time Index v1.2.3 style-profile leaderboard
Best defensive fighters in H&G All-Time Index v1.2.3
Canelo Alvarez leads the Score list, with Floyd Mayweather Jr and Muhammad Ali close enough to make the order worth arguing about.
This slice ranks fighters whose reviewed style radar scores highly for defensive engine. It favours explicit diagnostic coverage over loose reputation tags.
This page uses reviewed H&G style-profile data where available. It does not assign style labels to fighters without enough diagnostic coverage.
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v1.2.3, computed from fights up to . Index and Peak-form Elo stay fixed to that fight-data cutoff; displayed records may include later record-only corrections.
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21 fighters shown from the H&G All-Time Index v1.2.3 launch leaderboard set.
Readable table
| Rank | Fighter | Division | Score | Peak-form Elo | Active | Notable wins | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5 | Canelo Alvarez | Super Middleweight | 97.04 | 2,242 | 2005-2025 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #7 | Floyd Mayweather Jr | Welterweight | 95.81 | 2,342 | 1996-2017 | Canelo Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya | Head-to-head |
| #9 | Muhammad Ali | Heavyweight | 95.63 | 2,095 | 1960-1981 | George Foreman, Archie Moore, Joe Frazier | Head-to-head |
| #10 | Oleksandr Usyk | Heavyweight | 95.58 | 2,287 | 2013-2025 | Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Daniel Dubois | Head-to-head |
| #16 | Archie Moore | Light Heavyweight | 93.40 | 1,995 | 1937-1963 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #19 | Tommy Ryan | Middleweight | 92.80 | 1,846 | 1889-1907 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #22 | Larry Holmes | Heavyweight | 92.30 | 2,101 | 1973-2002 | Muhammad Ali, Tim Witherspoon, Marvis Frazier | Head-to-head |
| #23 | Bernard Hopkins | Middleweight | 92.23 | 2,076 | 1988-2016 | Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr, Felix Trinidad | Head-to-head |
| #26 | Pernell Whitaker | Lightweight | 91.92 | 2,078 | 1984-2001 | James McGirt, Julio Cesar Vasquez, Azumah Nelson | Head-to-head |
| #27 | Willie Pep | Featherweight | 91.66 | 1,982 | 1941-1966 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #38 | Ezzard Charles | Heavyweight | 89.74 | 2,012 | 1940-1959 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #42 | Joe Gans | Lightweight | 89.30 | 1,740 | 1891-1909 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #57 | Jack Johnson | Heavyweight | 87.59 | 1,825 | 1897-1931 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #58 | Tommy Loughran | Light Heavyweight | 87.53 | 1,936 | 1921-1937 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #62 | Devin Haney | Welterweight | 86.81 | 2,170 | 2015-2025 | Vasyl Lomachenko, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Jose Carlos Ramirez | Head-to-head |
| #64 | Floyd Patterson | Heavyweight | 86.46 | 1,879 | 1952-1972 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #65 | Andre Ward | Super Middleweight | 86.39 | 2,243 | 2004-2017 | Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham | Head-to-head |
| #84 | Dmitry Bivol | Light Heavyweight | 85.00 | 2,175 | 2014-2025 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #97 | Abe Attell | Featherweight | 83.91 | 1,722 | 1901-1917 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #99 | James Toney | Middleweight | 83.70 | 2,020 | 1988-2017 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
| #100 | Winky Wright | Super Welterweight | 83.65 | 2,012 | 1990-2012 | No listed opponent summary | Head-to-head |
Read this with care
H&G All-Time Index v1.2.3 is a fixed public release, not a live database. A fighter can lead one signal and still sit lower in the main all-time list because the final score blends sustained head-to-head rating, dominance over contemporaries, quality of opponents beaten, title record, and sustained top-level career.
For disputed placements, use the fighter page, methodology page and corrections process rather than treating one number as the whole argument.