H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Emile Griffith
Middleweight · United States
Emile Griffith ranks #46 in the H&G All-Time Index at Middleweight, with a 88.98 All-Time Index score and a 85-24-2 professional record. His career span on this page is 1959-1977.
- All-time rank
- #46Elite Greats
- H&G All-Time Index
- 88.980-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 85-24-2Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1959-1977
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Emile Griffith'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 |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 1,747 |
| 1960 | 1,810 |
| 1961 | 1,830 |
| 1962 | 1,854 |
| 1963 | 1,855 |
| 1964 | 1,851 |
| 1965 | 1,842 |
| 1966 | 1,845 |
| 1967 | 1,836 |
| 1968 | 1,820 |
| 1969 | 1,817 |
| 1970 | 1,817 |
| 1971 | 1,799 |
| 1972 | 1,764 |
| 1973 | 1,693 |
| 1974 | 1,648 |
| 1975 | 1,594 |
| 1976 | 1,570 |
| 1977 | 1,552 |
Why this ranking
Emile Griffith ranks #46 with a 88.98 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. In an era with 11 weight divisions, he held titles in middleweight and welterweight at the same time, a strong sign of greatness across weight classes. His standout win in our data is over Nino Benvenuti in 1967, who reached a 1,893 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. 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 1,855 (±158), 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 repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
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
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Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Emile Griffith actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Carlos Monzon#30 · Index 91 · 1971, 1973
- Jose Napoles#34 · Index 91 · 1969
- Nino Benvenuti#59 · Index 87 · 1967, 1968
- Luis Rodriguez#113 · Index 83 · 1960, 1963, 1964
- Dick Tiger#150 · Index 82 · 1966, 1970
- Alan Minter#633 · Index 74 · 1977
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- Ralph Dupas#636 · Index 74 · 1962, 1964
- Vito Antuofermo#776 · Index 73 · 1974
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.
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 7 overlapping years (1959-1965)
- Carlos Ortiz#39 · Welterweight · 14 overlapping years (1959-1972)
- Alexis Arguello#60 · Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1968-1977)
- Floyd Patterson#64 · Super Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (1959-1972)
- Bobo Olson#160 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1959-1966)
- Sandro Mazzinghi#187 · Super Welterweight · 17 overlapping years (1961-1977)
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- Nicolino Locche#194 · Welterweight · 15 overlapping years (1962-1976)
- Rodrigo Valdes#283 · Welterweight / Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 15 overlapping years (1963-1977)
- Miguel Angel Campanino#419 · Welterweight · 12 overlapping years (1966-1977)
- Eddie Perkins#599 · Welterweight / Super Welterweight · 17 overlapping years (1959-1975)
- Curtis Cokes#759 · Welterweight / Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 14 overlapping years (1959-1972)
- Joey Giardello#830 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1959-1967)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Emile Griffith also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
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 94 bouts we hold full data for from 1959 to 1977, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,855 (peak dated 1963-06-08). 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 ±158 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.