Barry McGuigan
70″ reach · +6.09% reach advantage · 88th percentile
32–3
Barry McGuigan has a reach of 70″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +6.09%, long for featherweight boxing and the 88th percentile of the 101 compared here.
SOURCE·Barry McGuigan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-13
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 2026-07-13. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — 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 101 featherweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | L | Jim McDonnell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1988 | W | Julio César Miranda | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1988 | W | Francisco Tomas da Cruz | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1988 | W | Nicky Perez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1986 | L | Steve Cruz | Decision | 15 |
| 1986 | W | Danilo Cabrera | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1985 | W | Bernard Taylor | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1985 | W | Eusebio Pedroza | — | 15 |
| 1985 | W | Farid Gallouze | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Juan Laporte | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Clyde Ruan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1984 | W | Felipe Orozco | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1984 | W | Paul DeVorce | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1984 | W | Esteban Eguia | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1984 | W | Jose Caba | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1984 | W | Charm Chiteule | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Valerio Nati | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1983 | W | Ruben Dario Herasme | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Lavon McGowan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Samuel Meck | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1983 | W | Vernon Penprase | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Paul Huggins | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | W | Jimmy Duncan | — | 4 |
| 1982 | W | Young Ali | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Gary Lucas | — | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Angelo Licata | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Angel Oliver | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Ian Murray | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Luis de la Sagra | Decision | 8 |
| 1981 | W | Peter Eubank | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1981 | W | Terry Pizzaro | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Jean-Marc Renard | Decision | 8 |
| 1981 | W | Gary Lucas | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Selvin Bell | — | 2 |
| undated | W | Eusebio Pedroza | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Barry McGuigan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-13
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.09%
70″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 101 featherweight boxing fighters. Median 3%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 80th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 34 of 34 dated bouts | |
| Country | Ireland |
Record
Boxing record
32–3
35 bouts on record
Finish rate
88%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 95th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1989. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1981–1989
Longest unbeaten run
28
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1982
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
34 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Zahir Raheem+6.09% 70″ reach · 88th pct
- Solly Smith+6.09% 70″ reach · 88th pct
- Marcos Villasana+6.21% 68″ reach · 91st pct
- Eric Aiken+5.93% 71″ reach · 86th pct
- Danny Lopez+5.93% 71″ reach · 86th pct
- Bruce Carrington+5.91% 72″ reach · 85th pct
- Owen Moran+6.37% 67″ reach · 92nd pct
- Fighting Harada+6.69% 64″ reach · 93rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Barry McGuigan's record?
- 32–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 bouts individually.
- How many of Barry McGuigan's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 36. 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.
Where this record leads
The 247 featherweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution McGuigan sits inside.
247 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing34 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsBarry McGuigan went 28 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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