Buster Douglas
83″ reach · +10.66% reach advantage · 96th percentile
38–6–1
Buster Douglas has a reach of 83″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +10.66%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 96th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Buster Douglas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
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 2026-07-27. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | W | Andre Crowder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Warren Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Lou Savarese | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Quinn Navarre | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1997 | W | Louis Monaco | — | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Brian Scott | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Dicky Ryan | Decision | 10 |
| 1997 | W | Rocky Pepeli | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Tony LaRosa | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | L | Evander Holyfield | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Oliver McCall | Decision | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Trevor Berbick | Decision | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Mike Williams | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1988 | W | Jerry Halstead | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1988 | W | Percell Davis | — | 9 |
| 1987 | W | Donnie Long | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | L | Tony Tucker | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Dee Collier | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | David Jaco | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Greg Page | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | L | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Dion Simpson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Randall Cobb | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | ? | David Starkey | — | 1 |
| 1983 | L | Mike White | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1983 | W | Eugene Cato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Dave Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Henry Porter | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Jesse Clark | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Leroy Diggs | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1982 | W | Tim Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | D | Steffen Tangstad | Draw | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Mel Daniels | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Rick Enis | — | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Marvin Earle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Donny Townsend | Decision | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Hubert Adams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Don Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1981 | L | David Bey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1981 | W | Jesse Clark | — | 3 |
| 1981 | W | Abdul Muhaymin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1981 | W | Mike Rodgers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1981 | W | Mike Lear | — | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Dan O'Malley | — | 3 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Buster Douglas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+10.66%
83″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 83″ (210.8 cm) | 92nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 34 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
38–6
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
66%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 45th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1981–1999
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1981
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Luis Ortiz+10.57% 84″ reach · 96th pct
- Oliver McCall+10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Hasim Rahman+10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- David Izon+10.47% 83.1″ reach · 95th pct
- Efe Ajagba+10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Primo Carnera+10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Steve Hérélius+10.95% 81″ reach · 97th pct
- Phil Jackson+9.73% 79″ reach · 94th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Buster Douglas's record?
- 38–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 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 Douglas sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing34 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Buster Douglas vs Evander HolyfieldA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1990 Longest unbeaten runsBuster Douglas went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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