Billy Papke
39–17 · 56 recorded bouts · 1906–1919
39–17–7
Billy Papke finished 79% of 39 wins inside the distance — the 87th percentile for middleweight boxing, where the median is 60%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Billy Papke — 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 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 256 middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | L | Jimmy Darcy | Decision | 4 |
| 1919 | L | Jakob "Soldier" Bartfield | Decision | 4 |
| 1916 | L | Jack Smith | — | 10 |
| 1913 | L | Marty Rowan | Decision | 8 |
| 1913 | L | Frank Klaus | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1912 | W | Georges Bernard | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1912 | W | Georges Carpentier | KO/TKO | 18 |
| 1912 | L | Leo Houck | — | 6 |
| 1912 | L | Jack Denning | — | 10 |
| 1912 | W | Marcel Moreau | KO/TKO | 16 |
| 1912 | W | Billy Leitch | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1912 | L | Frank Mantell | Decision | 20 |
| 1911 | L | Bob Moha | Decision | 12 |
| 1911 | L | Sailor Burke | — | 10 |
| 1911 | W | Jim Sullivan | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1911 | W | Dave Smith | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1911 | L | Cyclone Johnny Thompson | Decision | 20 |
| 1910 | L | Dave Smith | DQ | 10 |
| 1910 | W | Ed Williams | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1910 | W | Jack "Twin" Sullivan | Decision | 12 |
| 1910 | W | Al Goodale | DQ | 2 |
| 1910 | W | Joe Thomas | KO/TKO | 16 |
| 1910 | W | Willie Lewis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1909 | L | Frank Klaus | — | 6 |
| 1909 | W | Willie Lewis | — | 6 |
| 1909 | D | Fireman Jim Flynn | Draw | 10 |
| 1909 | L | Stanley Ketchel | Decision | 20 |
| 1909 | W | Hugo Kelly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1908 | D | Hugo Kelly | Decision | 25 |
| 1908 | L | Stanley Ketchel | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1908 | W | Sailor Burke | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Frank Mantell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1908 | W | Johnny Carroll | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1908 | W | Walter Stanton | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | D | Hugo Kelly | Decision | 10 |
| 1907 | W | Bartley Connolly | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | W | Charlie Haghey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | W | Tony Caponi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1907 | D | Pat O'Keefe | Decision | 6 |
| 1907 | W | Cy Flynn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | Terry Martin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | Tommy Sullivan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | W | Foster Walker | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1907 | W | Jack Morgan | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1907 | W | Johnny Carroll | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | D | Billy Rhodes | Decision | 15 |
| 1907 | W | Carl Anderson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | W | Dick Fitzpatrick | Decision | 10 |
| 1907 | W | Tommy Wallace | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1906 | W | Kid Farmer | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1906 | W | Milt Kinney | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1906 | W | Carl Purdy | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1906 | W | Jack Denny | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1906 | W | Buster Teegan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1906 | W | Red Morrisey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1906 | W | Mexican Wonder | Decision | 4 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Billy Papke — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1900s — 33 of 56 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Papke, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
39–17
63 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 87th percentile
The career, bout by bout
56 recorded bouts from 1906 to 1919. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1906–1919
Longest unbeaten run
19
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1907
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
56
56 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Billy Papke's record?
- 39–17–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 56 bouts individually.
- 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.
