Bob Foster
79″ reach · +5.35% reach advantage · 69th percentile
56–8–1
Bob Foster has a reach of 79″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +5.35%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 69th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Bob Foster (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
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 2026-08-01. 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 317 heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | L | Marty Lewis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1978 | L | Mustafa Wassaja | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1977 | W | Bob Hazelton | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1976 | W | Al Bolden | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Harold Carter | Decision | 10 |
| 1975 | W | Bill Hardney | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1974 | D | Jorge Ahumada | Decision | 15 |
| 1973 | W | Pierre Fourie | Decision | 15 |
| 1972 | L | Muhammad Ali | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1972 | W | Chris Finnegan | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1972 | W | Mike Quarry | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1972 | W | Vicente Rondón | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1971 | W | Brian Kelly | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1971 | W | Tommy Hicks | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1971 | W | Vernon McIntosh | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1971 | W | Ray Anderson | Decision | 15 |
| 1971 | W | Hal Carroll | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1970 | L | Joe Frazier | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1970 | W | Mark Tessman | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1970 | W | Roger Rouse | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1970 | W | Roy Wallace | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1970 | W | Bill Hardney | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1969 | W | Chuck Leslie | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1969 | W | Levan Roundtree | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1969 | W | Andy Kendall | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1969 | W | Frank DePaula | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1968 | W | Roger Rouse | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1968 | W | Eddie Vick | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1968 | W | Charley Polite | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1968 | W | Dick Tiger | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1967 | W | Sonny Moore | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1967 | W | Eddie Vick | Decision | 10 |
| 1967 | W | Levan Roundtree | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1967 | W | Henry Matthews | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1967 | W | Eddie Cotton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1967 | W | Andres Antonio Selpa | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1967 | W | Jim Robinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1966 | W | LeRoy Green | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1965 | L | Zora Folley | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Henry Hank | Decision | 12 |
| 1965 | W | Chuck Leslie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1965 | W | Dave Russell | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1965 | W | Bobby Rascon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1964 | W | Henry Hank | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1964 | W | Norman Letcher | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1964 | W | Don Quinn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1964 | L | Ernie Terrell | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1964 | W | Allen Thomas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1964 | W | Dave Bailey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1963 | W | Willi Besmanoff | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1963 | L | Mauro Mina | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | W | Curtis Bruce | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1963 | W | Richard Benjamin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1962 | L | Doug Jones | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1962 | W | Bert Whitehurst | Decision | 8 |
| 1962 | W | Billy Tisdale | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1961 | W | Clarence Floyd | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1961 | W | Ernie Knox | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1961 | W | Floyd McCoy | Decision | 6 |
| 1961 | W | Ray Bryan | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bob Foster (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.35%
79″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 79″ (200.7 cm) | 61st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1960s — 41 of 63 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
56–8
65 bouts on record
Finish rate
82%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 81st percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 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
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1961
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
63 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Obed Sullivan+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
- Lenier Peró+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
- Michael Bentt+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
- Alex García+5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Renaldo Snipes+5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Seth Mitchell+5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Cleveland Williams+5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Trevor Berbick+5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Bob Foster's record?
- 56–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 bouts individually.
- How many of Bob Foster's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 64. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Foster sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing41 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
72 FIGHTERS Bob Foster vs Dick TigerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1968 Longest unbeaten runsBob Foster went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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