H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Sugar Ray Robinson
Middleweight · United States
Sugar Ray Robinson ranks #6 in the H&G All-Time Index at Middleweight, with a 96.59 All-Time Index score and a 174-19-6 professional record. His best wins on record include Gene Fullmer, Bobo Olson and Jake LaMotta. His career span on this page is 1940-1965.
- All-time rank
- #6Inner Circle
- H&G All-Time Index
- 96.590-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 174-19-6Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1940-1965
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Sugar Ray Robinson'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.
Signature wins
- Gene Fullmer - 1957 - signature win
- Bobo Olson - 1956 - signature win
- Jake LaMotta - 1951 - signature win
- George Costner - 1950 - signature win
- Rocky Castellani - 1955 - signature win
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1940 | 2,012 |
| 1941 | 2,049 |
| 1942 | 2,064 |
| 1943 | 2,072 |
| 1944 | 2,084 |
| 1945 | 2,092 |
| 1946 | 2,094 |
| 1947 | 2,093 |
| 1948 | 2,086 |
| 1949 | 2,072 |
| 1950 | 2,063 |
| 1951 | 2,025 |
| 1952 | 1,973 |
| 1955 | 1,869 |
| 1956 | 1,834 |
| 1957 | 1,804 |
| 1958 | 1,754 |
| 1960 | 1,669 |
| 1961 | 1,629 |
| 1962 | 1,591 |
| 1963 | 1,567 |
| 1964 | 1,513 |
| 1965 | 1,493 |
Why this ranking
Sugar Ray Robinson ranks #6 with a 96.59 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Gene Fullmer in 1957, who reached a 1,867 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In 2 cases a result was later reversed, including Gene Fullmer, whom he beat once but lost to in a later fight. Holding the score back, dominance over contemporaries sits below the field of ranked fighters in this release. 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 2,094 (±192), 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.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
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.
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.
Compare and explore
Put Sugar Ray Robinson next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Sugar Ray Robinson actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Henry Armstrong#3 · Index 98 · 1943
- Gene Fullmer#85 · Index 85 · 1957, 1960, 1961
- Kid Gavilan#147 · Index 82 · 1948, 1949
- Sammy Angott#153 · Index 82 · 1941, 1942, 1946
- Bobo Olson#160 · Index 81 · 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Index 79 · 1942, 1943, 1945, 1951
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- Carmen Basilio#290 · Index 78 · 1957, 1958
- Paul Pender#401 · Index 76 · 1960
- Fritzie Zivic#588 · Index 74 · 1941, 1942
- Ralph Dupas#636 · Index 74 · 1963
- Joey Giardello#830 · Index 72 · 1963
- George Costner#892 · Index 72 · 1945, 1950
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.
- Archie Moore#16 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 15 overlapping years (1949-1963)
- Jose Napoles#34 · Super Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1958-1965)
- Ezzard Charles#38 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1949-1959)
- Emile Griffith#46 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 7 overlapping years (1959-1965)
- Floyd Patterson#64 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1952-1965)
- Harold Johnson#104 · Light Heavyweight · 17 overlapping years (1949-1965)
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- Luis Rodriguez#113 · Super Welterweight / Middleweight / Super Middleweight · 7 overlapping years (1959-1965)
- Dick Tiger#150 · Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1952-1965)
- Jimmy Bivins#258 · Light Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1949-1955)
- Johnny Saxton#502 · Super Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1949-1958)
- Eddie Perkins#599 · Super Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1956-1965)
- Charles Humez#601 · Middleweight · 10 overlapping years (1949-1958)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Sugar Ray Robinson 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 161 bouts we hold full data for from 1949 to 1965, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 2,094 (peak dated 1946-11-01). 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 ±192 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.