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1924 was a landmark year as far as boxing was concerned because that was the first year, courtesy of the Bible of Boxing (Ring magazine) that the Ring rankings were published. With the help of a now very old Ring Record book, I am introducing a new feature, the rankings comparison where I take the Ring rankings for various fighters and compare that with the rankings for the same year in my Uni.

Starting with the HWs:

Ring #1 Jack Dempsey (RL Champ) -- rated #1 in my Uni (fairly consistent there)
Ring #2 Harry Wills -- also rated #2 in my Uni (another good match)
Ring #3 Tommy Gibbons -- still rated in LH in my Uni (perhaps I should move him up now?)
Ring #4 Charley Weinert - #11 in my Uni (not a perfect fit, but not far off, either)
Ring #5 Quinton Romero Rojas -- only #38 in my Uni (OK, not even close to a perfect match)
Ring #6 Jack Renault -- even worse, he's #64 in my Uni
Ring #7 Luis Firpo - #26 in my Uni (I actually think Firpo is somewhat underrated in TB, same for Jess Willard)
Ring #8 George Godfrey -- #3 in my Uni (not bad, nice to see two black HWs in the initial Ring HW rankings)
Ring #9 Jim Maloney -- still at Pre-Prime, 6-0 (4) record thus far
Ring #10 Erminio Spalla -- #7 and newly-crowned EBU Champ in my Uni, a good fit IMHO

On balance, fairly accurate recreations for all but Rojas, Renault and Maloney who probably had more bouts IRL by the end of 1924 than the Uni rules allow (no more than one bout per month, etc.)

Two of the top HWs in my Uni (Gene Tunney and Young Stribling) are still listed at LH in the Ring rankings for 1924, so I guess my Uni is a bit ahead of its times (particularly with Tunney already having defeated Dempsey once).