What is Dingaan Thobela's record?

40–14–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 bouts individually.

How many of Dingaan Thobela's bouts have no date?

1 of 55. 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.

Dingaan Thobela — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

40–14–2

Dingaan Thobela has a reach of 72″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +7.46%, exceptional for super middleweight boxing and the 96th percentile of the 75 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1986–2006 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Dingaan Thobela — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12

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 2026-07-12. 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 75 super middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

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
2006	L	Soon Botes	KO/TKO	10
2004	L	Lucian Bute	KO/TKO	4
2003	L	Martin Nielsen	Decision	6
2003	L	Otis Grant	Decision	8
2002	L	Mikkel Kessler	Decision	12
2001	L	Éric Lucas	KO/TKO	8
2000	L	Dave Hilton Jr.	Decision	12
2000	W	Glenn Catley	KO/TKO	12
2000	W	Soon Botes	Decision	12
1999	L	Cornelius Carr	Decision	12
1999	W	Adrian Walter Daneff	KO/TKO	7
1998	D	Carlos Baldomir	Draw	12
1997	W	Gary Murray	KO/TKO	4
1997	L	Willy Wise	Decision	10
1996	L	Geoff McCreesh	KO/TKO	2
1996	W	Wayne Boudreaux	KO/TKO	6
1996	W	Booker Kidd	KO/TKO	3
1995	W	Mark McCreath	KO/TKO	9
1995	W	Jaime Balboa	KO/TKO	8
1995	W	Santiago Alfonso Ahumada	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Kenny Vice	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Andreas Panayi	KO/TKO	2
1994	L	Karl Taylor	Decision	8
1994	L	Orzubek Nazarov	Decision	12
1993	L	Orzubek Nazarov	Decision	12
1993	W	Tony Lopez	Decision	12
1992	W	Tony Foster	Decision	8
1992	W	Peter Till	KO/TKO	9
1991	W	Antonio Rivera	Decision	12
1991	W	Amancio Castro	Decision	10
1991	W	Mario Martínez	Decision	12
1990	W	Mauricio Aceves	Decision	12
1990	W	Pascual Aranda	KO/TKO	4
1990	W	Felipe Orozco	KO/TKO	10
1989	W	Francisco Ortiz	Decision	10
1989	W	Francisco Alvarez	KO/TKO	9
1989	W	Danilo Cabrera	KO/TKO	3
1989	W	Fred Adams	KO/TKO	1
1989	W	Mark Fernandez	KO/TKO	6
1989	W	Daniel Londas	Decision	10
1988	W	Brian Roche	KO/TKO	8
1988	W	Mpisekhaya Mbaduli	KO/TKO	8
1988	W	Ditau Molefyane	Decision	10
1988	W	Andy DeAbreu	KO/TKO	5
1988	W	Gerald Isaacs	KO/TKO	3
1988	W	Samuel Boikanyo	KO/TKO	4
1987	W	Elijah Cele	Decision	6
1987	W	Shorne Moorcroft	KO/TKO	5
1987	W	Walter Mpungose	KO/TKO	6
1987	W	George Masango	Decision	4
1986	D	Peter Mpikashe	Decision	4
1986	W	David Matekane	Decision	6
1986	W	Christian Sithebe	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	Quinton Ryan	Decision	4
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Dingaan Thobela — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+7.46%

72″ reach on a 67″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 75 super middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.8%super middleweight boxing reach advantage8.5%

Measurements
Reach	72″ (182.9 cm)	31st pct
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)	3rd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Super Middleweight Boxing competed at 4: lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, super middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1990s — 25 of 54 dated bouts
Country	South Africa

Record

Boxing record

40–14

56 bouts on record

Finish rate

65%

of wins ended inside the distance — super middleweight boxing median 61%, 55th percentile

By knockout 65%
By decision 35%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 1986 to 2006. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1986–2006

Career span

21y

1986–2006

Longest unbeaten run

27

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1988

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

54 with a date

Closest in build

super middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Dingaan Thobela's record?: 40–14–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 bouts individually.
How many of Dingaan Thobela's bouts have no date?: 1 of 55. 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

Super middleweight boxing

The 164 super middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Thobela sits inside.

164 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing

25 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Dingaan Thobela went 27 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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