H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Jack Johnson
Heavyweight · United States
Jack Johnson ranks #57 in the H&G All-Time Index at Heavyweight, with a 87.59 All-Time Index score and a 53-11-8 professional record. His career span on this page is 1897-1931.
- All-time rank
- #57Notables
- H&G All-Time Index
- 87.590-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 53-11-8Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1897-1931
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Jack Johnson'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 |
|---|---|
| 1899 | 1,493 |
| 1900 | 1,549 |
| 1901 | 1,611 |
| 1902 | 1,701 |
| 1903 | 1,754 |
| 1904 | 1,779 |
| 1905 | 1,805 |
| 1906 | 1,819 |
| 1907 | 1,825 |
| 1908 | 1,823 |
| 1909 | 1,818 |
| 1910 | 1,803 |
| 1912 | 1,746 |
| 1913 | 1,698 |
| 1914 | 1,687 |
| 1915 | 1,664 |
| 1918 | 1,642 |
| 1919 | 1,629 |
| 1923 | 1,534 |
| 1924 | 1,506 |
| 1926 | 1,407 |
| 1928 | 1,365 |
| 1931 | 1,371 |
Why this ranking
Jack Johnson ranks #57 with a 87.59 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Joe Jennette in 1906, who reached a 1,822 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Joe Jennette once, then lost to him in a later fight. The honest tension is that the sustained head-to-head rating signal is around the typical top-1000 fighter rather than an exceptional lift, so this high placement rests more on résumé signals than on peak rating level. 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. The expert prior (a small, fixed nudge from a published all-time list, mainly for early fighters with thin records) lifts this score slightly.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
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.
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 major title evidence supports the rating.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Compare and explore
Put Jack Johnson next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Jack Johnson actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Bob Fitzsimmons#56 · Index 88 · 1907
- Philadelphia Jack O'Brien#61 · Index 87 · 1909
- James J Jeffries#71 · Index 86 · 1910
- Sam Langford#146 · Index 82 · 1906
- Stanley Ketchel#167 · Index 81 · 1909
- Joe Jennette#173 · Index 81 · 1905, 1906
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- George Gardner#433 · Index 76 · 1902
- Marvin Hart#600 · Index 74 · 1905
- Sam McVea#808 · Index 72 · 1903, 1904
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.
- Jack Dempsey#33 · Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1914-1927)
- Gene Tunney#44 · Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1915-1928)
- Ted Kid Lewis#91 · Middleweight · 13 overlapping years (1917-1929)
- Tommy Gibbons#94 · Middleweight / Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (1913-1925)
- Mike Gibbons#95 · Middleweight · 12 overlapping years (1911-1922)
- Harry Wills#120 · Heavyweight · 19 overlapping years (1913-1931)
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- Charles Kid McCoy#135 · Middleweight · 16 overlapping years (1897-1912)
- Jack Delaney#278 · Middleweight / Cruiserweight · 13 overlapping years (1919-1931)
- Georges Carpentier#507 · Middleweight / Heavyweight · 18 overlapping years (1909-1926)
- Battling Levinsky#521 · Cruiserweight · 14 overlapping years (1917-1930)
- Fred Fulton#772 · Heavyweight · 18 overlapping years (1914-1931)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Jack Johnson 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 74 bouts we hold full data for from 1897 to 1931, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,825 (peak dated 1907-11-02). 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 ±184 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.