H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Harry Matthews
Light Heavyweight · United States
Harry Matthews ranks #632 in the H&G All-Time Index at Light Heavyweight, with a 73.80 All-Time Index score and a 90-7-6 professional record. His career span on this page is 1938-1956.
- All-time rank
- #632
- H&G All-Time Index
- 73.800-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 90-7-6Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1938-1956
- Data Confidence
- MediumSolid but wider career evidence. Treat close ranks with extra care.
Career story
How Harry Matthews'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 |
|---|---|
| 1940 | 1,562 |
| 1941 | 1,591 |
| 1942 | 1,624 |
| 1943 | 1,634 |
| 1947 | 1,755 |
| 1948 | 1,797 |
| 1949 | 1,804 |
| 1950 | 1,831 |
| 1951 | 1,832 |
| 1952 | 1,805 |
| 1953 | 1,759 |
| 1954 | 1,734 |
| 1956 | 1,751 |
Why this ranking
Harry Matthews ranks #632 with a 73.80 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Ezzard Charles in 1956, who reached a 2,009 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also fought Freddie Beshore 3 times, going 2-0-1 across that series. Data Confidence is Medium, so the rating should be read with wider uncertainty. Peak-form Elo is 1,832 (±182), 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.
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 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.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Compare and explore
Put Harry Matthews next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Harry Matthews actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Ezzard Charles#38 · Index 90 · 1956
- Rocky Marciano#54 · Index 88 · 1952
- Lloyd Marshall#424 · Index 76 · 1951
- Eddie Booker#557 · Index 75 · 1943
- Al Hostak#876 · Index 72 · 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.
- Joe Louis#4 · Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1938-1951)
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Light Heavyweight · 8 overlapping years (1949-1956)
- Archie Moore#16 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1948-1956)
- Billy Conn#52 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1938-1948)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1938-1948)
- Harold Johnson#104 · Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1946-1956)
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- Bobo Olson#160 · Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1946-1956)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Light Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1941-1954)
- Jimmy Bivins#258 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 16 overlapping years (1940-1955)
- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 12 overlapping years (1938-1949)
- Max Schmeling#299 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1938-1948)
- Melio Bettina#368 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1938-1948)
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 46 bouts we hold full data for from 1938 to 1956, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,832 (peak dated 1951-03-01). 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 ±182 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.