What is Dave Sands's record?

87–10–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 81 bouts individually.

How many of Dave Sands's bouts have no date?

1 of 81. 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.

Dave Sands — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

87–10–1

Dave Sands finished 60% of 87 wins inside the distance — the 34th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1941–1952 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Dave Sands — 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 record template — 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.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1952	W	Jim Woods	KO/TKO	4
1952	W	Al Bourke	KO/TKO	5
1952	W	Chub Keith	KO/TKO	14
1952	W	Ron Toohey	KO/TKO	10
1951	L	Yolande Pompey	KO/TKO	7
1951	W	Henry Brimm	KO/TKO	10
1951	W	Bobo Olson	Decision	10
1951	W	Doug Miller	Decision	10
1951	W	Mel Brown	Decision	10
1951	W	Henry Bray	KO/TKO	7
1951	W	Irvin Steen	Decision	12
1951	W	Boy Brooks	Decision	12
1950	W	Don Mullett	Decision	12
1950	W	Alf Gallagher	Decision	15
1950	W	Henry Brimm	KO/TKO	2
1950	W	Boy Brooks	Decision	10
1950	W	Bobo Olson	Decision	12
1949	W	Pete Mead	Decision	10
1949	W	Dick Turpin	KO/TKO	1
1949	W	Robert Villemain	Decision	10
1949	W	Jan de Bruin	Decision	10
1949	W	Jackie Jones	KO/TKO	1
1949	W	Lucien Caboche	Decision	10
1949	L	Tommy Yarosz	Decision	10
1949	W	Antoine Toniolo	KO/TKO	1
1948	W	Tommy Prince	KO/TKO	3
1948	W	Len Dittmar	KO/TKO	5
1948	W	Doug Brown	KO/TKO	1
1948	W	Billy Meyers	Decision	12
1948	W	George Allen	KO/TKO	6
1948	W	Billy Myers	Decision	12
1948	N	Jackie Marr	—	7
1948	W	Don Mullett	Decision	12
1948	W	Doug Rollinson	KO/TKO	1
1948	W	Alabama Kid	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Alex Buxton	Decision	12
1947	W	George Allen	KO/TKO	9
1947	W	George 'Wildcat' Henry	Decision	12
1947	?	Emory Jackson	—	7
1947	W	Art Lind	KO/TKO	7
1946	W	Alf Gallagher	KO/TKO	3
1946	D	Jackie Marr	Decision	12
1946	W	Jack Johnson	KO/TKO	1
1946	W	Jack Kirkham	KO/TKO	5
1946	W	Jimmy Brunt	KO/TKO	1
1946	W	Alex Buxton	Decision	12
1945	W	Tommy Colteaux	KO/TKO	2
1945	W	Al Walker	Decision	12
1945	W	Max Cameron	KO/TKO	11
1945	W	Billy Myers	KO/TKO	5
1945	W	Tom Laming	KO/TKO	2
1945	W	Herb Broom	KO/TKO	3
1945	W	Jack Brander	KO/TKO	2
1944	W	Jackie Marr	Decision	12
1944	W	Jimmy Grey	KO/TKO	8
1944	W	Max Cameron	KO/TKO	3
1944	W	Tom Laming	KO/TKO	7
1944	W	Jackie Day	KO/TKO	5
1944	W	Bob Coughlan	Decision	12
1944	W	Dal Conway	KO/TKO	4

Showing 60 of 81 recorded bouts, most recent first.

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Dave Sands — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	70.5″ (179 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1940s — 63 of 80 dated bouts
Country	Australia

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Dave Sands, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1941–1952

Record

Boxing record

87–10

100 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

81 recorded bouts from 1941 to 1952. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

12y

1941–1952

Longest unbeaten run

32

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1944

13 bouts

Recorded bouts

81

80 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Dave Sands's record?: 87–10–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 81 bouts individually.
How many of Dave Sands's bouts have no date?: 1 of 81. 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sands sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

63 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Dave Sands vs Jack Johnson

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1946 Longest unbeaten runs

Dave Sands went 32 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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