When you've fought as many title fights and big names as Oscar De La Hoya, tune up fights do little good in my ranking. De La Hoya, as expected, waded through the harmless punches of Steve Forbes for a unanimous decision Saturday night. Most people keeping score gave Oscar all 12 rounds.
But since non-title fights are worth so little and De La Hoya was already ranked No. 53, he actually slipped a couple of percentage points to fall behind Pascual Perez.
Of course, De La Hoya can make all that up and more in his September rematch against Floyd Mayweather.
The 'new' rankings of No. 50 to No. 60.
Rank, fighter, years, country, points
50. Flash Elorde, 1951-71, Phillippines, 51.315
51. Jimmy McLarnin, 1923-36, U.S., 51.251
52. Stanley Ketchel, 1904-10, U.S., 51.021
53. Pascual Perez, 1952-64, Argentina, 50.932
54. Oscar De La Hoya, 1992-07, U.S., 50.754
55. Lennox Lewis, 1989-03, United Kingdom, 50.711
56. Bob Foster, 1961-78, U.S., 50.704
57. Floyd Patterson, 1952-72, U.S., 50.664
58. Vicente Saldivar, 1961-73, Mexico, 50.623
59. Kostya Tszyu, 1992-05, Australia, 50.605
60. Benny Leonard, 1911-32, U.S., 50.562
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