Carl Williams
85″ reach · +11.87% reach advantage · 97th percentile
30–10
Carl Williams has a reach of 85″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +11.87%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 97th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Carl Williams (boxer) — 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | L | Anthony Green | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1997 | W | Marion Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Domingo Monroe | Decision | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Lou Turchiarelli | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Sean Hart | DQ | 3 |
| 1995 | L | Melvin Foster | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | L | Alexandr Zolkin | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1993 | L | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1993 | L | Tommy Morrison | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Jimmy Lee Smith | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Ossie Ocasio | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | L | Jerry Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Marshall Tillman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | ? | Kimmuel Odum | — | 10 |
| 1991 | L | Tim Witherspoon | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Melton Bowen | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1989 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | W | Mike Rouse | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | W | Trevor Berbick | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Rodney Frazier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Mike Gans | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1987 | W | Bert Cooper | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1986 | L | Mike Weaver | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Jesse Ferguson | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1985 | L | Larry Holmes | Decision | 15 |
| 1984 | W | James Tillis | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Terry Mims | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1984 | W | Lou Benson Jr. | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Percell Davis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Woody Clark | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | David Jaco | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Robert Hill | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1983 | W | Richard Cade | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Leroy Boone | Decision | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Michael Greer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | David Starkey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Barry Funches | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Donny Townsend | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Louis Alexander | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Dwight Triplett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Greg Stephany | Decision | 4 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Carl Williams (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+11.87%
85″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 85″ (215.9 cm) | 97th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 25 of 41 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
30–10
41 bouts on record
Finish rate
70%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 1982 to 1997. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1982–1997
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1982
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
41 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Hein ten Hoff+12.02% 84″ reach · 98th pct
- Bryant Jennings+12.02% 84″ reach · 98th pct
- Audley Harrison+11.66% 86″ reach · 97th pct
- Sam Langford+12.17% 74″ reach · 98th pct
- Louis Monaco+12.7% 80″ reach · 99th pct
- Steve Hérélius+10.95% 81″ reach · 97th pct
- Oliver McCall+10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Hasim Rahman+10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Carl Williams's record?
- 30–10 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 42 bouts individually.
- How many of Carl Williams's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 42. 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 Williams sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing25 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Carl Williams vs Tommy MorrisonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1993 Longest unbeaten runsCarl Williams went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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