What is Ernie Terrell's record?

46–9 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 Ernie Terrell'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.

Ernie Terrell — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

46–9

Ernie Terrell has a reach of 82″ against a height of 78″ — a reach advantage of +5.15%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 65th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1957–1973 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Ernie Terrell — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

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 2026-07-10. 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 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

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
1973	L	Jeff Merritt	KO/TKO	1
1973	L	Chuck Wepner	Decision	12
1973	W	Bill Drover	KO/TKO	1
1972	W	Jose Luis Garcia	KO/TKO	6
1971	W	Roberto Davila	Decision	10
1971	W	Luis Faustino Pires	Decision	10
1971	W	Vic Brown	Decision	10
1971	W	John Hudgins	KO/TKO	1
1970	W	Sonny Moore	Decision	10
1967	L	Manuel Ramos	Decision	10
1967	L	Thad Spencer	Decision	12
1967	L	Muhammad Ali	Decision	15
1966	W	Doug Jones	Decision	15
1965	W	George Chuvalo	Decision	15
1965	W	Eddie Machen	Decision	15
1964	W	Henry Wallitsch	KO/TKO	6
1964	W	Bob Foster	KO/TKO	7
1964	W	Jefferson Davis	Decision	10
1964	W	Gerhard Zech	Decision	10
1963	W	Zora Folley	Decision	10
1963	W	Cleveland Williams	Decision	10
1963	W	Herb Siler	KO/TKO	3
1963	W	Young Jack Johnson	Decision	10
1962	W	Young Jack Johnson	Decision	10
1962	W	Reiniero Rey Lopez	KO/TKO	3
1962	W	Eddie Jackson	KO/TKO	2
1962	W	Amos Lincoln	Decision	6
1962	L	Cleveland Williams	KO/TKO	7
1962	W	Herb Siler	Decision	10
1961	W	Ernie Cab	—	3
1961	W	Chuck Garrett	Decision	10
1961	W	Willie Coleman	KO/TKO	1
1960	L	Wayne Bethea	Decision	10
1960	W	Joe Hemphill	Decision	8
1960	W	Frankie Daniels	KO/TKO	7
1960	W	Lee Williams	Decision	10
1960	W	Clay Thomas	KO/TKO	1
1959	W	Chuck Garrett	Decision	6
1959	W	Tunney Hunsaker	Decision	8
1959	L	Johnny Gray	Decision	8
1959	W	Willie Coleman	—	8
1958	W	Sid Peaks	Decision	8
1958	W	John Hobart	KO/TKO	1
1958	W	Joe Hemphill	KO/TKO	1
1958	W	Billy Pickett	KO/TKO	2
1958	L	Johnny Gray	Decision	8
1958	W	Johnny Harper	KO/TKO	1
1958	W	Emil Brtko	KO/TKO	2
1958	W	Calvin Butler	—	6
1957	W	Ted Poole	KO/TKO	1
1957	W	Neal Welch	Decision	6
1957	W	Ray Griggs	—	1
1957	W	Andy Bond	—	1
1957	W	Norman Bolden	—	4
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

13 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ernie Terrell — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.15%

82″ reach on a 78″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	82″ (208.3 cm)	83rd pct
Height	78″ (198.1 cm)	90th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1960s — 28 of 54 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

46–9

55 bouts on record

Finish rate

46%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 12th percentile

By knockout 46%
By decision 54%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 1957 to 1973. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1957–1973

Career span

17y

1957–1973

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1958

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

54 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ernie Terrell's record?: 46–9 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 Ernie Terrell'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

Heavyweight boxing

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

605 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

28 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Ernie Terrell vs George Chuvalo CM

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

1965 Longest unbeaten runs

Ernie Terrell went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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