What is Arnold Taylor's record?

40–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 bouts individually.

How many of Arnold Taylor's bouts have no date?

1 of 43. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Arnold Taylor — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

40–8–1

Arnold Taylor has a reach of 69″ against a height of 60″ — a reach advantage of +15.03%, exceptional for bantamweight boxing and the 99th percentile of the 70 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1967–1976 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Arnold Taylor — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-06. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 70 bantamweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1976	L	Vernon Sollas	KO/TKO	8
1976	L	Svein Erik Paulsen	Decision	10
1976	W	Dave Needham	Decision	10
1975	W	Romeo Anaya	KO/TKO	8
1975	W	Lothar Abend	KO/TKO	3
1975	W	John Mitchell	KO/TKO	4
1974	L	Hong Soo-hwan	Decision	15
1974	L	Lorenzo Trujillo	Decision	10
1974	W	Paul Ferreri	Decision	10
1974	W	Guy Caudron	Decision	10
1973	W	Romeo Anaya	KO/TKO	14
1973	W	Billy Waith	Decision	10
1973	W	Jimmy Bell	Decision	10
1972	W	Evan Armstrong	KO/TKO	4
1972	W	Hansie van Rooyen	KO/TKO	6
1972	W	Ugo Poli	KO/TKO	4
1971	W	Chris Nel	KO/TKO	7
1971	W	Luis Aisa	Decision	10
1971	W	Alberto Jangalay	Decision	10
1971	W	Memo Espinosa	Decision	10
1971	W	Turori George	Decision	10
1971	W	Willie Cordova	Decision	10
1970	W	Chris Nel	KO/TKO	10
1970	W	Ray Buttle	KO/TKO	8
1970	L	Johnny Famechon	Decision	10
1969	W	Mike Buttle	KO/TKO	6
1969	L	John O'Brien	Decision	10
1969	L	Andries Steyn	KO/TKO	8
1969	W	Dennis Adams	KO/TKO	8
1969	W	Herby Clarke	Decision	12
1969	W	Henri Nesi	Decision	10
1968	W	Colin Lake	DQ	3
1968	W	Robert Trott	KO/TKO	3
1968	W	Anthony Morodi	Decision	6
1968	W	Edwin Mbongwe	Decision	6
1968	W	Herby Clarke	KO/TKO	9
1968	L	Dennis Adams	KO/TKO	1
1968	W	Gerry Joey McBride	Decision	10
1968	W	Bobby Davies	Decision	10
1968	W	Andries Steyn	Decision	12
1967	W	Ray Buttle	Decision	8
1967	?	Robert Trott	—	4
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Arnold Taylor — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+15.03%

69″ reach on a 60″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 70 bantamweight boxing fighters. Median 1.81%.

-3%bantamweight boxing reach advantage10%

Measurements
Reach	69″ (175.3 cm)	83rd pct
Height	60″ (152.4 cm)	0th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Bantamweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 25 of 42 dated bouts
Country	South Africa

Record

Boxing record

40–8

50 bouts on record

Finish rate

43%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight boxing median 48%, 36th percentile

By knockout 43%
By decision 57%

The career, bout by bout

43 recorded bouts from 1967 to 1976. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1967–1976

Career span

10y

1967–1976

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1968

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

43

42 with a date

Closest in build

bantamweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Arnold Taylor's record?: 40–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 bouts individually.
How many of Arnold Taylor's bouts have no date?: 1 of 43. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Bantamweight boxing

The 194 bantamweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Taylor sits inside.

194 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

25 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Arnold Taylor went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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