Bloody fake records

Boxing fans often complain about “padded records” in boxing, where a fighter fights no one to create an artificially deep looking record. Although the term is often unfairly used against fighters who fight average opponents when they, themselves, are supposed to be world class it's more annoying when young you find fighters with around 20 fights who has never faced any sort of a test at all. I've been ultra critical of Deontay Wilder, a fighter who some Americans are cheering on as their future heavyweight champion and saviour. Wilder is a major case of a fighter with a padded and “perfect” record but he's far from the worst offender. In fact with out trailing through boxrec.com with a fine comb it's impossible to be sure who actually does have the most padded record.

One man that does need to be mentioned as a probably contender though is the 18-0 (17) Dzmitry Lubachkin from Belarus. You maybe asking what makes Lubachkin's record so padded? Well just take a look here:
He has faced 13 debutants
He has never faced a fighter who was better than 1-1-1 (his 14^th opponents-Aliaksandr Kuryanovich)
His opponents have a combined 1 win amongst them
The combined record of his 18 opponents have a record of 1-6-2

I've also complained a little about the likes of Nenad Borovcanin who also has a very padded record (27-0 with 19KO's) but even his is record isn't this poor.

The problem isn't that fans are asking too much of fighters, but that Lubachkin's record will be seen seriously by those outside of the sports actual fans. If Lubachkin was to meet a half decent fighter he'd be on paper an “impressive” opponent, though everyone would expect him to be badly beaten by any sort of semi-decent professional fighter. It's not fair on the fans and it's not fair on the guys he fights.