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Brown vs Cotto

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BrownWinner
87.8

Brown wins: Longevity

Cotto
87.8

Cotto wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Joe Brown
87.8

Brown leads in 1 of 5 weighted categories. Old Bones defended the lightweight championship eleven times.

1. Joe Brown
87.8
2. Miguel Cotto
87.8

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. 🇵🇷 Miguel Cotto5 years played · career day 1,825299 title wins
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇺🇸 Joe Brown5 years played · career day 1,825215 title wins
-28.1% vs Cotto at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Brown003574215460
🇵🇷 Cotto004597299658

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.

MetricBrownRetiredCottoRetired
Title defences11
Professional wins10441
Knockouts4733
Professional bouts16047
World title reign in years6
World titles in weight classes4
World title fights22
Dominance w25%8486
Peak w20%9294
Longevity w20%9282
Honours w20%8488
Statistics w15%8890

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Brown87.8
Cotto87.8
The people
Brown
Cotto

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