Bombardier Billy Wells
37–11 · 62 recorded bouts · 1909–1925
37–11
Bombardier Billy Wells finished 92% of 37 wins inside the distance — the 93rd percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Bombardier Billy Wells — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | L | Jack Stanley | — | 3 |
| 1925 | W | Soldier Horace Jones | — | 6 |
| 1924 | W | Gunner Bennett | — | 9 |
| 1924 | W | Charles Penwill | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1922 | L | Jack Bloomfield | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1922 | L | Frank Goddard | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1922 | W | Albert Lloyd | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1920 | W | Paul Journée | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1920 | L | Joe Beckett | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1920 | W | Eddie McGoorty | KO/TKO | 16 |
| 1920 | W | Harry Reeve | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1919 | W | Arthur Townley | — | 9 |
| 1919 | W | Jack Curphey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1919 | L | Joe Beckett | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1918 | W | Joe Beckett | — | 3 |
| 1918 | W | Eddie McGoorty | Decision | 3 |
| 1918 | W | Seaman Powell | Decision | 3 |
| 1916 | W | Dan Voyles | — | 2 |
| 1916 | W | Dick Smith | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1916 | W | Petty-Officer Curran | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1915 | W | Bandsman Rice | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1915 | W | Dick Smith | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1915 | L | Frank Moran | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Dan McGoldrick | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1915 | ? | E. V. Chandler | — | 3 |
| 1915 | N | F. Ormered | — | 3 |
| 1914 | W | Colin Bell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1914 | W | Bandsman Rice | — | 20 |
| 1914 | W | Albert Lurie | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1914 | W | Bandsman Blake | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1914 | W | Gaston Pigot | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1914 | W | Gunner Rawles | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1914 | N | Frank Hagney | — | 3 |
| 1914 | N | Pat O'Keeffe | — | 3 |
| 1913 | L | Georges Carpentier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1913 | W | Gunner Moir | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1913 | W | Pat O'Keeffe | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1913 | W | Packey Mahoney | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1913 | L | Gunboat Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1912 | W | George Rodel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1912 | W | Tom Kennedy | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1912 | L | Al Palzer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1912 | N | Jim Sullivan | — | 3 |
| 1911 | W | Fred Storbeck | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1911 | W | Iron Hague | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1911 | W | Porky Flynn | Decision | 20 |
| 1911 | L | Gunner Moir | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1911 | N | Jim Maloney | — | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Seaman Parsons | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1910 | W | Private Dan Voyles | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1910 | W | Sergeant Sunshine | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1910 | W | Corporal Brown | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Gunner McMurray | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1910 | W | Gunner Joe Mills | Decision | 6 |
| 1910 | W | Private Clohessy | — | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Drummer Ness | Decision | 3 |
| 1909 | W | Private Clohessy | Decision | 3 |
| 1909 | W | Sergeant Gale | — | 2 |
| 1909 | W | Corporal Gouldburn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1909 | W | Private Tansell | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 62 recorded bouts, most recent first.
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bombardier Billy Wells — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 45 of 62 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Bombardier Billy Wells, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
37–11
48 bouts on record
Finish rate
92%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 93rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
62 recorded bouts from 1909 to 1925. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1909–1925
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1910
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
62
62 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Bombardier Billy Wells's record?
- 37–11 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 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 Wells sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing45 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
48 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsBombardier Billy Wells went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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