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Graziano vs Taylor

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GrazianoWinner
82.8

Graziano wins: Dominance, Statistics

Taylor
82.8

Taylor wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Rocky Graziano
82.8

Graziano leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. World middleweight champion and the other half of the Zale trilogy.

1. Rocky Graziano
82.8
2. Jermain Taylor
82.8

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. 🇺🇸 Rocky Graziano5 years played · career day 1,825329 title wins
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇺🇸 Jermain Taylor5 years played · career day 1,82521 title wins
-93.6% vs Graziano at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Graziano0045100329637
🇺🇸 Taylor005102129

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.

MetricGrazianoRetiredTaylorRetired
World titles1
Career wins67
Knockouts52
Title fights4
Career bouts83
Undisputed titles1
World titles won4
Professional wins33
Knockout wins20
Olympic medals1
Dominance w25%8078
Peak w20%9292
Longevity w20%7478
Honours w20%8282
Statistics w15%8886

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Graziano82.8
Taylor82.8
The people
Graziano
Taylor

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