What is Billy Backus's record?

48–20–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 70 bouts individually.

How many of Billy Backus's bouts have no date?

2 of 70. 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.

Billy Backus — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

48–20–5

Billy Backus finished 46% of 48 wins inside the distance — the 38th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1961–1978 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Billy Backus — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

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 2026-07-07. 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 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1978	L	Pipino Cuevas	KO/TKO	1
1977	D	Everaldo Costa Azevedo	Decision	12
1977	W	Joe Grier	Decision	10
1977	W	Rafael Rodriguez	Decision	12
1977	W	Roy Barrientos	Decision	10
1977	W	Justice Ortiz	Decision	10
1976	W	Tony Lopes	KO/TKO	9
1976	W	Pablo Rodriguez	Decision	10
1976	W	Jose Papo Melendez	Decision	10
1976	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1975	W	Marc Gervais	KO/TKO	10
1975	L	Rocky Mattioli	KO/TKO	5
1974	L	Eckhard Dagge	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Jacques Kechichian	KO/TKO	5
1974	L	Roger Menetrey	Decision	12
1974	W	Roger Zami	KO/TKO	9
1973	L	Zovek Barajas	KO/TKO	3
1973	W	Al Romano	KO/TKO	3
1973	L	Miguel Barreto	Decision	12
1973	L	Jack Tillman	Decision	12
1972	L	Hedgemon Lewis	Decision	15
1972	W	Dorman Crawford	KO/TKO	8
1972	W	Danny McAloon	Decision	12
1972	W	Irish Pat Murphy	KO/TKO	7
1971	W	Jose Gabino	Decision	10
1971	L	José Nápoles	KO/TKO	8
1971	W	Robert Gallois	Decision	10
1971	W	Bobby Williams	Decision	12
1970	W	José Nápoles	KO/TKO	4
1970	W	Denny Stiletto	KO/TKO	8
1970	W	Manuel Gonzalez	Decision	10
1970	W	Frank Steele	Decision	10
1970	W	Manuel Burgo	Decision	10
1970	W	Ricky Ortiz	KO/TKO	8
1969	D	Ricky Ortiz	Decision	10
1969	W	Jerry Pellegrini	Decision	10
1969	L	Percy Pugh	Decision	15
1969	W	CL Lewis	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Freddie Cobb	KO/TKO	5
1968	W	Vince Shomo	KO/TKO	8
1968	W	Johnny Brooks	Decision	10
1968	W	Curtis Phillips	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Jerry Pellegrini	Decision	10
1968	L	Percy Pugh	Decision	10
1968	W	Dick French	KO/TKO	6
1968	W	Danny Andrews	Decision	10
1968	W	Juan Ramos	Decision	10
1967	W	Gene Herrick	KO/TKO	6
1967	W	Curtis Phillips	KO/TKO	6
1967	W	Ernie Robbins	KO/TKO	3
1967	W	Tod Purtell	KO/TKO	1
1965	L	Rudy Richardson	Decision	8
1964	L	Billy Anderson	Decision	10
1964	L	Genaro Soto	Decision	6
1964	W	Colin Fraser	Decision	10
1964	W	Lew Anderson	KO/TKO	5
1964	W	Dave Hilton Sr.	KO/TKO	7
1963	L	Billy Anderson	Decision	8
1963	L	Fernand Chretien	Decision	10
1963	L	Dick French	Decision	8

Showing 60 of 70 recorded bouts, most recent first.

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Billy Backus — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Welterweight Boxing
Most active decade	1960s — 34 of 68 dated bouts
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Backus, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1961–1978

Record

Boxing record

48–20

73 bouts on record

Finish rate

46%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 38th percentile

By knockout 46%
By decision 54%

The career, bout by bout

70 recorded bouts from 1961 to 1978. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

18y

1961–1978

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1968

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

70

68 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Billy Backus's record?: 48–20–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 70 bouts individually.
How many of Billy Backus's bouts have no date?: 2 of 70. 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

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Backus sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

34 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Billy Backus went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

LEADERBOARD