H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Jimmy Bivins
Light Heavyweight · United States
Jimmy Bivins ranks #258 in the H&G All-Time Index at Light Heavyweight, with a 78.72 All-Time Index score and a 86-25-1 professional record. His career span on this page is 1940-1955.
- All-time rank
- #258
- H&G All-Time Index
- 78.720-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 86-25-1Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1940-1955
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Jimmy Bivins'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 | 1,851 |
| 1941 | 1,870 |
| 1942 | 1,925 |
| 1943 | 1,933 |
| 1944 | 1,918 |
| 1945 | 1,887 |
| 1946 | 1,846 |
| 1947 | 1,808 |
| 1948 | 1,777 |
| 1949 | 1,727 |
| 1950 | 1,695 |
| 1951 | 1,676 |
| 1952 | 1,644 |
| 1953 | 1,639 |
| 1955 | 1,659 |
Why this ranking
Jimmy Bivins ranks #258 with a 78.72 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Ezzard Charles in 1943, who reached a 2,009 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In 7 cases a result was later reversed, including Anton Christoforidis, whom he beat once but lost to in a later fight. 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 1,933 (±151), 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 repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
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.
Compare and explore
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Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Jimmy Bivins actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Joe Louis#4 · Index 97 · 1951
- Archie Moore#16 · Index 93 · 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951
- Ezzard Charles#38 · Index 90 · 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952
- Harold Johnson#104 · Index 84 · 1949
- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Index 78 · 1942
- Teddy Yarosz#302 · Index 78 · 1941
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- Melio Bettina#368 · Index 77 · 1941, 1943, 1945
- Lloyd Marshall#424 · Index 76 · 1943
- Jersey Joe Walcott#503 · Index 75 · 1946
- Bob Pastor#539 · Index 75 · 1942
- Charley Burley#625 · Index 74 · 1940
- Billy Soose#626 · Index 74 · 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.
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Light Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1949-1955)
- Billy Conn#52 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1940-1948)
- Rocky Marciano#54 · Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1947-1955)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Light Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1940-1948)
- Bobo Olson#160 · Light Heavyweight · 10 overlapping years (1946-1955)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Light Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1941-1954)
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- Max Schmeling#299 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1940-1948)
- Primo Carnera#375 · Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1940-1946)
- Harry Matthews#632 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 16 overlapping years (1940-1955)
- Gustave Roth#710 · Light Heavyweight · 6 overlapping years (1940-1945)
- Tiger Jack Fox#902 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1940-1950)
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 99 bouts we hold full data for from 1940 to 1955, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,933 (peak dated 1943-04-01). 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 ±151 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.