H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Dingaan Thobela
Lightweight · South Africa
Dingaan Thobela ranks #511 in the H&G All-Time Index at Lightweight, with a 75.07 All-Time Index score and a 40-14-2 professional record. His career span on this page is 1986-2006.
- All-time rank
- #511
- H&G All-Time Index
- 75.070-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 40-14-2Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1986-2006
- Data Confidence
- MediumSolid but wider career evidence. Treat close ranks with extra care.
Career story
How Dingaan Thobela'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 |
|---|---|
| 1986 | 1,712 |
| 1987 | 1,738 |
| 1988 | 1,798 |
| 1989 | 1,816 |
| 1990 | 1,817 |
| 1991 | 1,808 |
| 1992 | 1,771 |
| 1993 | 1,754 |
| 1994 | 1,722 |
| 1995 | 1,712 |
| 1996 | 1,696 |
| 1997 | 1,666 |
| 1998 | 1,649 |
| 1999 | 1,642 |
| 2000 | 1,623 |
| 2001 | 1,566 |
| 2002 | 1,538 |
| 2003 | 1,512 |
| 2004 | 1,495 |
| 2006 | 1,472 |
Why this ranking
Dingaan Thobela ranks #511 with a 75.07 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Tony Lopez in 1993, who reached a 1,887 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Soon Botes once, then lost to him in a later fight. Data Confidence is Medium, so the rating should be read with wider uncertainty. Peak-form Elo is 1,817 (±185), 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.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Compare and explore
Put Dingaan Thobela next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Dingaan Thobela actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Lucian Bute#182 · Index 81 · 2004
- Mikkel Kessler#200 · Index 80 · 2002
- Tony Lopez#276 · Index 78 · 1993
- Otis Grant#369 · Index 77 · 2003
- Orzubek Nazarov#591 · Index 74 · 1993, 1994
- Carlos Manuel Baldomir#692 · Index 73 · 1998
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- Eric Lucas#858 · Index 72 · 2001
- Dave Hilton#945 · Index 71 · 2000
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.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr#7 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight · 11 overlapping years (1996-2006)
- Roy Jones Jr#8 · Super Middleweight · 18 overlapping years (1989-2006)
- Julio Cesar Chavez#12 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight · 20 overlapping years (1986-2005)
- Joe Calzaghe#17 · Super Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (1993-2006)
- Kostya Tszyu#18 · Welterweight · 14 overlapping years (1992-2005)
- Oscar De La Hoya#24 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight · 15 overlapping years (1992-2006)
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- Manny Pacquiao#25 · Super Featherweight / Welterweight · 12 overlapping years (1995-2006)
- Pernell Whitaker#26 · Lightweight / Welterweight · 16 overlapping years (1986-2001)
- Felix Trinidad#37 · Welterweight · 17 overlapping years (1990-2006)
- Sven Ottke#41 · Super Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1997-2004)
- Alexis Arguello#60 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1986-1995)
- Roberto Duran#73 · Lightweight / Welterweight / Super Middleweight · 16 overlapping years (1986-2001)
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 48 bouts we hold full data for from 1986 to 2006, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,817 (peak dated 1990-04-01). 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 ±185 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.