Robert Fitzsimmons
69–12 · 92 recorded bouts · 1885–1914
69–12–14
Robert Fitzsimmons finished 83% of 69 wins inside the distance — the 82nd percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Bob Fitzsimmons — 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 587 heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | W | Jersey Bellew | — | 6 |
| 1914 | W | Dan Sweeney | — | 6 |
| 1909 | L | Bill Lang | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1907 | L | Jack Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1906 | W | Charlie Haghey | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1905 | L | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1904 | W | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | George Gardiner | Decision | 20 |
| 1903 | W | Joe Grim | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Con Coughlin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1902 | W | Mike Ranke | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Steward | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1902 | L | James J. Jeffries | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1900 | W | Tom Sharkey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Gus Ruhlin | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Ed Dunkhorst | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Jim Daly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Geoff Thorne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | L | James J. Jeffries | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1897 | W | Lew Joslin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | W | James J. Corbett | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1896 | L | Tom Sharkey | — | 8 |
| 1896 | W | Peter Maher | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1895 | W | Mike Connors | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1895 | W | Al Allich | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1894 | W | Dan Creedon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1894 | W | Frank Kellar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1894 | D | Joe Choynski | Decision | 5 |
| 1893 | W | Jack Hickey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1893 | W | Dan Coner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Mike Brennan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1893 | W | Joe Godfrey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Mike Monoghan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Alexander Kilpatrick | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1893 | W | Jack Sheridan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Dan Curry | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1893 | W | Hank Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Jack Warner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1893 | W | Phil Mayo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1893 | D | Dan Bayliff | Decision | 4 |
| 1893 | W | Jim Hall | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1892 | W | Jack Britton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | Millard Zender | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1892 | W | Jerry Slattery | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | Joe Godfrey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | James Farrell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | Thomas Robbins | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1892 | W | Tom Burns | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1892 | W | James Malone | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | Charles Puff | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1892 | W | Peter Maher | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1891 | ? | Harris Martin | — | 4 |
| 1891 | W | Abe Coughle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1891 | W | Nonpareil Dempsey | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1890 | W | Arthur Upham | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1890 | W | Billy McCarthy | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1890 | W | Frank Allen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1890 | W | Professor Jack West | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1890 | W | Edward Starlight Rollins | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1890 | L | Jim Hall | KO/TKO | 4 |
Showing 60 of 92 recorded bouts, most recent first.
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bob Fitzsimmons — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 44 of 92 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Robert Fitzsimmons, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
69–12
101 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 82nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
92 recorded bouts from 1885 to 1914. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1885–1914
Longest unbeaten run
29
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1893
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
92
92 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Robert Fitzsimmons's record?
- 69–12–14 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 92 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Fitzsimmons sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS Robert Fitzsimmons vs James J. JeffriesA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1899 Longest unbeaten runsRobert Fitzsimmons went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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