GOAT Index is an independent site that puts professional boxers of every era on one and the same scale. Reaching across generations and organisations, a single rating makes visible who is really the greatest.
Independent and neutral
Tied to no promoter and no sanctioning body, every fighter is judged by the same yardstick, with no favours.
Recomputed in full, every time
Every update recomputes the ratings for every fighter from scratch. Nothing is patched in on top of the last run.
Every era comparable
No era adjustment is applied, and the boards are built so that a fighter is not pushed down merely for being from an earlier era.
How the rating works
The GOAT Index rankings come from a single rating, scored bout by bout. The point is that a vast body of results across generations is connected as one single large network. By joining up who beat whom, and how, across eras and weight classes, boxers who never shared a ring can still be compared.
The rating weighs more than a win-loss count. It takes in the strength of the opponent, the manner of the win (a KO or TKO counts for more than a decision, and a decision counts for less the more it was split), and how certain the assessment is. A fighter with few bouts is treated as having a wide margin - the aim is to show where each fighter stands right now.
There is no era adjustment. On the All-Time (current rating) board a rating only moves when a fighter boxes, so a retired fighter's rating stops where it was. The Peak board takes the highest rating each fighter ever held and subtracts the certainty as it stood at that moment. Subtracting today's certainty would push a fighter down for no reason other than being from an earlier era; what deserves the penalty is a thin record, not a distant one. The rating applies exactly the same arithmetic to every fighter - no credit for an organisation, a nationality or a name.
Men and women are ranked separately
Men and women have separate rating pools that never meet, because they never fight each other. Two ratings from different pools are not comparable, so the boards stay within a single sex. On the top page you can switch between the men's and women's rankings. For a cross-sex pairing the fantasy-match engine declines to score rather than print a number that would mean nothing.
About the operation
GOAT Index is run independently by one person who loves the sport. It exists to promote no particular fighter and no particular organisation, and so that the data and the computed results stay in the foreground, nothing is published about the operator personally. The value of the site lies not in who built it but in how accurate and how verifiable it is.
Neutrality and advertising
To cover running costs this site carries advertising. Should it carry affiliate links in future, rankings, ratings and the order of listing are never adjusted for an advertiser or for payment. Anything advertising-related or paid for is marked PR. The rankings and the rest of the data are computed entirely separately from the advertising.
Rankings = decided by the rating aloneMethod = the same arithmetic for everyone, no era adjustmentSponsored content = marked PRRank adjusted for a fee = never
The conversation continues on Discord.
Objections to the rankings, the prospects worth watching, dream fights across the eras - a community where fans can talk it over.
The update runs automatically every Sunday at 23:30 JST. A week that fails the checks is not published, and the previous week's pages stay up. Every time the data is updated, the ratings for every fighter are recomputed and only what passes the checks is published. Keeping broken data off the site matters more here than freshness.
Q. What is the difference between All-Time and Peak?
On All-Time (current rating) a rating only moves when a fighter boxes, so a retired fighter's rating stops where it was, and a long career carries its late losses. Peak takes the highest rating each fighter ever held and re-orders by that figure less the certainty as it stood at the time. There is no era adjustment in either.
Q. How recent is Active P4P? Is two years not too long?
A boxer whose last bout falls in the most recent two years is treated as active. That may look generous, but at the top of the sport a gap of more than a year is not unusual. When a fighter goes a long time without a bout the certainty in the rating falls away.
Q. Why are men and women on separate boards?
Because they never fight each other, their ratings come from separate pools and are not on a comparable scale. Ranking within each sex is the only honest way to do it, so the boards - and the fantasy-match win probability - stay within one sex.
Q. Who is included?
Professional boxers whose record can be verified from published sources, with 10 or more career bouts (champions are exempt from that condition). Seventeen weight classes for men and for women alike. Amateur bouts and exhibitions are not included. The scope widens as the data comes together.
Q. A fighter is missing, or a record looks wrong.
Reports are welcome through Discord or the contact page. A source, such as a link to an official record, makes a correction certain, and every report goes towards better accuracy.
Contact
Reports of data errors and listing issues, and enquiries about coverage or partnership, are welcome through Discord or the contact page. Every report received goes towards better accuracy.
Disclaimer:The rankings and ratings on this site are analysis and estimation by an in-house algorithm, and are not a guarantee of any result. Care is taken over the accuracy of the published data, but neither completeness nor currency is guaranteed. This site neither recommends nor solicits any form of gambling. This site carries advertising. Should it carry affiliate links, a purchase made through a link may earn the operator a fee (rankings and ratings are not adjusted for any fee).
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