Like Sending Lambs to the slaughter, the problem with a padded record

Some of my7 recent posts have been about “fake records” and more specifically that of Dzmitry Lubachkin who suffered the first loss of his career last night and now falls to 18-1 (17). Lubachkin had fought a combined 29 rounds, facing 13 fighters making their debut and had never faced a fighter with a winning record. Last night he faced Selcuk Aydin who moved to 21-0 (16) in what I'm assuming was signed as an April fool but somehow managed to get made.

Tonight though we get a WBO Cruiserweight title with the somewhat “padded” record of Ran Nakash who is 25-0 (18) challenging the very good Marco Huck who is 31-1 (23).Huck was probably lucky to have gotten the win in his last fight when he scored a controversial decision again Denis Lebedev though is still a good fighter. When Italian Giacobbe Fragomeni pulled out of the fight with Huck Nakash took the fight on short(ish) notice and dropped out of a fight with former world title contender Bobby Gunn.

Nakash's record isn't as padded as that of Lubachkin though is hardly a record that is worth of a world title fight, even at the short notice he was given. A quick look at Nakash's record and we get the following stats: (by winning or losing record, those records must be more than ½ of that result)

5 (20%) of Nakash's opponents have been debutants

8 (32 %) of Nakash's opponents have had winning records

8 (32%) of Nakash's opponents have had losing records

9 (36%) of Nakash's opponents had never won a fight

Only 7 (28%) of Nakash's opponents had double digit wins

The combined record of all his opponents is 138-149-12

Nakash's impressive looking 72% KO rate shows he has boxed just 102 professional rounds, a little over 4 rounds a fight and has only gone 10 rounds twice. He has scored 4 7^th round KO's and no KO's later than that. So from his 6 longest fights we get 48 of his career rounds.

Nakash is 32 and stands at just 5'10 tiny for a Cruiserweight (Huck by comparison is 26 and 6'1'') for comparison on records:

0 (0%) of Huck's opponents have been debutants

25 (78.125%) of Huck's opponents have had winning records

7 (21.875%) of Huck's opponents have had losing records

2 (6.25%) of Huck's opponents had never won a fight

20 (62.5%) of Hucks opponents had double digit wins

The combined record of all his opponents is 488-127-18

Huck's record shows an equally impressive KO rate of 71.88% and he has had 199 rounds as a professional, a little over 6.2 rounds a fight. He has gone 12 rounds several times as well.

Nakash maybe the best opponent Huck's team could get at the short notice though is not a spectacular name or as good as his record indicates. I've previewed the fight if you want to read more on the actual fight.

Nakash is however, rather good at Krav Maga and more can be read about Nakash here:
http://www.rannakash.com/