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Griffith vs Pep

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PepWinner
89.8

Pep wins: Dominance, Longevity

Griffith
89.7

Griffith wins: Peak, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Willie Pep
89.8

Pep leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. 229 professional wins and the featherweight crown twice over.

1. Willie Pep
89.8
2. Emile Griffith
89.7

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

Career timeline · Form index per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through year 5 · Form index per season
1. 🇺🇸 Emile Griffith5 years played · career day 1,825280 title wins
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇺🇸 Willie Pep5 years played · career day 1,82694 title wins
-66.4% vs Griffith at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Griffith004088280634
🇺🇸 Pep00163776147

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 years are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricGriffithRetiredPepRetired
World title reigns5
World title fights22
Professional wins85229
Professional bouts112
Fighter of the Year awards2
Career losses11
Wins by knockout65
World titles2
Title defences12
Dominance w25%8688
Peak w20%9290
Longevity w20%9294
Honours w20%8886
Statistics w15%9292

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Pep89.8
Griffith89.7
The people
Griffith
Pep

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