H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Jacob Matlala
Light Flyweight · South Africa
Jacob Matlala ranks #538 in the H&G All-Time Index at Light Flyweight, with a 74.83 All-Time Index score and a 53-13-2 professional record. His career span on this page is 1980-2002.
- All-time rank
- #538
- H&G All-Time Index
- 74.830-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 53-13-2Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1980-2002
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Jacob Matlala'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 |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 1,451 |
| 1982 | 1,498 |
| 1983 | 1,554 |
| 1984 | 1,585 |
| 1985 | 1,598 |
| 1986 | 1,624 |
| 1987 | 1,654 |
| 1988 | 1,688 |
| 1989 | 1,729 |
| 1990 | 1,750 |
| 1991 | 1,766 |
| 1992 | 1,775 |
| 1993 | 1,790 |
| 1994 | 1,788 |
| 1995 | 1,790 |
| 1996 | 1,793 |
| 1997 | 1,800 |
| 1998 | 1,793 |
| 2000 | 1,749 |
| 2001 | 1,753 |
| 2002 | 1,754 |
Why this ranking
Jacob Matlala ranks #538 with a 74.83 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Michael Carbajal in 1997, who reached a 1,879 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Mveleli Luzipho once, then lost to him in a later fight. The strongest model lifts are quality of opponents beaten (above the typical top-1000 fighter) and world-title record (around the typical top-1000 fighter). Peak-form Elo is 1,800 (±213), 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.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
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 Jacob Matlala next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Jacob Matlala actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Michael Carbajal#169 · Index 81 · 1997
- Alberto Jimenez#824 · Index 72 · 1995
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.
- Ricardo Lopez#68 · Light Flyweight · 17 overlapping years (1985-2001)
- Pongsaklek Wonjongkam#75 · Light Flyweight / Flyweight · 9 overlapping years (1994-2002)
- Ruben Olivares#176 · Flyweight · 9 overlapping years (1980-1988)
- Humberto Gonzalez#184 · Light Flyweight · 12 overlapping years (1984-1995)
- Mark Johnson#196 · Flyweight · 13 overlapping years (1990-2002)
- Jung Koo Chang#203 · Light Flyweight / Flyweight · 12 overlapping years (1980-1991)
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- Yuri Arbachakov#207 · Flyweight · 8 overlapping years (1990-1997)
- Ratanapol Sor Vorapin#284 · Light Flyweight · 13 overlapping years (1990-2002)
- Pichit Sithbanprachan#352 · Flyweight · 13 overlapping years (1988-2000)
- Saman Sorjaturong#410 · Light Flyweight · 14 overlapping years (1989-2002)
- Chatchai Sasakul#442 · Flyweight · 12 overlapping years (1991-2002)
- Irene Pacheco#447 · Flyweight · 10 overlapping years (1993-2002)
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 61 bouts we hold full data for from 1980 to 2002, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,800 (peak dated 1997-07-01). 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 ±213 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.