Editing BoxRec (section)

==Criticism of the website==
{{anchor|Inaccurate records of boxers}}
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BoxRec has been criticized for not keeping correct records for boxers, especially historic fighters.<ref name="Indispensable Website"/> In 2005, BoxRec applied to become recognized as the official record keepers for the [[Association of Boxing Commissions]] (ABC).<ref name="ABC">{{cite web |title=ABC renews contract with Fight Fax |work=Hot Boxing News |url=http://www.hotboxingnews.com/NEWS2005/news080505fightfax.htm |date=21 July 2008 |access-date=18 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724231405/http://www.hotboxingnews.com/NEWS2005/news080505fightfax.htm |archive-date=24 July 2008}}</ref> The ABC held interviews with both Fight Fax and BoxRec at their 2005 convention. Each applicant made a submission and presentation to the ABC panel which included [[state commissioner]]s and attorneys. The panel then voted unanimously in favour to award Fight Fax the position. The ABC later revealed that they had performed tests to measure the accuracy of each company's records: Fight Fax's records were shown to be 100% accurate, while the accuracy of BoxRec's records was found to be "substantially lower".<ref name="ABC"/> Nonetheless, in 2016 the ABC voted to recognize Boxrec as an official record-keeper alongside Fight Fax.<ref name="ABC 2016">{{cite web |title=ABC Minutes 2016 Las Vegas |work=Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports |url=http://www.abcboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016_minutes.pdf |date=1 August 2016 |access-date=1 August 2016}}</ref>

Boxing promoter [[J. Russell Peltz]] stated "very few things in life are one hundred percent. But I've come across some glaring errors at BoxRec, mostly in the historical records." [[ESPN]]'s Dan Rafael noted that "so many people have a hand in BoxRec that the records aren't always accurate. [[Ricardo Mayorga]]'s record has been wrong for years. There's a mistake [in] [[Derrick Gainer]]'s record too."<ref name="Indispensable Website"/>