H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Lou Ambers
Lightweight · United States
Lou Ambers ranks #72 in the H&G All-Time Index at Lightweight, with a 85.83 All-Time Index score and a 89-8-7 professional record. His career span on this page is 1932-1941.
- All-time rank
- #72Notables
- H&G All-Time Index
- 85.830-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 89-8-7Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1932-1941
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Lou Ambers'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 |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 1,773 |
| 1933 | 1,815 |
| 1934 | 1,836 |
| 1935 | 1,854 |
| 1936 | 1,858 |
| 1937 | 1,877 |
| 1938 | 1,882 |
| 1939 | 1,882 |
| 1940 | 1,859 |
| 1941 | 1,826 |
Why this ranking
Lou Ambers ranks #72 with a 85.83 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Henry Armstrong in 1939, who reached a 1,974 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also fought Jimmy Vaughn 5 times, going 5-0-0 across that series. The strongest model lifts are major title-control signal (well above the typical top-1000 fighter) and quality of opponents beaten (above the typical top-1000 fighter). Peak-form Elo is 1,882 (±169), 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.
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.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Compare and explore
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Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Lou Ambers actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Henry Armstrong#3 · Index 98 · 1938, 1939
- Tony Canzoneri#31 · Index 91 · 1935, 1936, 1937
- Jimmy McLarnin#45 · Index 89 · 1936
- Baby Arizmendi#584 · Index 74 · 1936, 1938, 1939
- Fritzie Zivic#588 · Index 74 · 1935
- Pedro Montanez#658 · Index 74 · 1937
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- Sammy Fuller#822 · Index 72 · 1935
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.
- Barney Ross#14 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight / Welterweight · 6 overlapping years (1933-1938)
- Marcel Thil#43 · Welterweight · 5 overlapping years (1933-1937)
- Billy Conn#52 · Super Lightweight / Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1934-1941)
- Freddie Steele#55 · Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1933-1941)
- Young Corbett III#66 · Super Lightweight / Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1933-1940)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1934-1941)
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- Jack 'Kid' Berg#122 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight / Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1933-1941)
- Kid Chocolate#131 · Lightweight · 6 overlapping years (1933-1938)
- Sammy Angott#153 · Lightweight · 5 overlapping years (1937-1941)
- Marcel Cerdan#162 · Welterweight · 6 overlapping years (1936-1941)
- Lou Brouillard#253 · Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1933-1940)
- Ceferino Garcia#311 · Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1933-1941)
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 87 bouts we hold full data for from 1933 to 1941, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,882 (peak dated 1939-01-01). 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 ±169 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.