H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Willie Pep
Featherweight · United States
Willie Pep ranks #27 in the H&G All-Time Index at Featherweight, with a 91.65 All-Time Index score and a 229-11-1 professional record. His career span on this page is 1941-1966.
- All-time rank
- #27Elite Greats
- H&G All-Time Index
- 91.650-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 229-11-1Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1941-1966
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Willie Pep'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 |
|---|---|
| 1941 | 1,908 |
| 1942 | 1,946 |
| 1943 | 1,958 |
| 1944 | 1,981 |
| 1945 | 1,981 |
| 1946 | 1,976 |
| 1947 | 1,965 |
| 1948 | 1,955 |
| 1949 | 1,934 |
| 1950 | 1,908 |
| 1951 | 1,871 |
| 1952 | 1,831 |
| 1953 | 1,821 |
| 1954 | 1,791 |
| 1955 | 1,775 |
| 1956 | 1,768 |
| 1957 | 1,739 |
| 1958 | 1,712 |
| 1959 | 1,685 |
| 1965 | 1,687 |
| 1966 | 1,673 |
Why this ranking
Willie Pep ranks #27 with a 91.65 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. He also fought Billy Lima 3 times, going 3-0-0 across that series. Our records show a featherweight title reign from 1942 to 1948. 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 1,981 (±177), 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.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
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.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Compare and explore
Put Willie Pep next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Willie Pep actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Sandy Saddler#87 · Index 85 · 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
- Manuel Ortiz#123 · Index 83 · 1944
- Sammy Angott#153 · Index 82 · 1943
- Chalky Wright#697 · Index 73 · 1942, 1944, 1946
- Sal Bartolo#852 · Index 72 · 1943, 1946
- Paddy DeMarco#925 · Index 71 · 1948
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.
- Jose Napoles#34 · Featherweight / Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 9 overlapping years (1958-1966)
- Carlos Ortiz#39 · Lightweight · 12 overlapping years (1955-1966)
- Eder Jofre#47 · Featherweight · 10 overlapping years (1957-1966)
- Vicente Saldivar#80 · Featherweight · 6 overlapping years (1961-1966)
- Ike Williams#81 · Lightweight · 7 overlapping years (1949-1955)
- Duilio Loi#235 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 12 overlapping years (1951-1962)
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- Beau Jack#261 · Lightweight · 7 overlapping years (1949-1955)
- Fighting Harada#495 · Featherweight / Super Featherweight · 7 overlapping years (1960-1966)
- Flash Elorde#544 · Featherweight / Super Featherweight / Lightweight · 15 overlapping years (1952-1966)
- Sugar Ramos#575 · Featherweight / Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 10 overlapping years (1957-1966)
- Ismael Laguna#587 · Lightweight · 7 overlapping years (1960-1966)
- Eddie Perkins#599 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 11 overlapping years (1956-1966)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Willie Pep 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 195 bouts we hold full data for from 1949 to 1966, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,981 (peak dated 1944-09-29). 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 ±177 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.