Evander Holyfield
44–10 · 57 recorded bouts · 1984–2021
44–10–2
Evander Holyfield finished 66% of 44 wins inside the distance — the 46th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Evander Holyfield — 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 587 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | L | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Mitt Romney | — | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Brian Nielsen | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2011 | ? | Sherman Williams | — | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Francois Botha | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2008 | L | Nikolai Valuev | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | L | Sultan Ibragimov | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Lou Savarese | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Vinny Maddalone | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Fres Oquendo | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Jeremy Bates | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Larry Donald | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | L | James Toney | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2002 | L | Chris Byrd | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Hasim Rahman | — | 8 |
| 2001 | D | John Ruiz | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | John Ruiz | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | L | Lennox Lewis | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Vaughn Bean | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Michael Moorer | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1997 | W | Mike Tyson | — | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1996 | W | Bobby Czyz | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1995 | L | Riddick Bowe | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Ray Mercer | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | L | Michael Moorer | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Riddick Bowe | — | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Alex Stewart | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | L | Riddick Bowe | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Larry Holmes | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Bert Cooper | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1991 | W | George Foreman | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Buster Douglas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Seamus McDonagh | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Alex Stewart | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Adílson Rodrigues | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Michael Dokes | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Pinklon Thomas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1988 | W | James Tillis | — | 5 |
| 1988 | W | Carlos de León | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Dwight Muhammad Qawi | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Ossie Ocasio | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1987 | W | Ricky Parkey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | W | Henry Tillman | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1986 | W | Mike Brothers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1986 | W | Dwight Muhammad Qawi | — | 15 |
| 1986 | W | Terry Mims | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1986 | W | Jesse Shelby | — | 3 |
| 1986 | W | Chisanda Mutti | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Anthony Davis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Jeff Meachem | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1985 | W | Rick Myers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Tyrone Booze | Decision | 8 |
| 1985 | W | Mark Rivera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Fred Brown | — | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Eric Winbush | Decision | 6 |
| 1984 | W | Lionel Byarm | — | 6 |
43 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Evander Holyfield — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 23 of 57 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Evander Holyfield, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
44–10
57 bouts on record
Finish rate
66%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
57 recorded bouts from 1984 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
38y
1984–2021
Longest unbeaten run
27
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1985
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
57
57 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Evander Holyfield's record?
- 44–10–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 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 Holyfield sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Evander Holyfield vs Nikolai ValuevA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2008 Longest unbeaten runsEvander Holyfield went 27 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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