James Kirkland
70″ reach · +1.43% reach advantage · 31st percentile
34–3
James Kirkland has a reach of 70″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +1.43%, short for middleweight boxing and the 31st percentile of the 123 compared here.
SOURCE·James Kirkland (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 123 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | L | Juan Macias Montiel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Jas Phipps | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Colby Courter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Canelo Álvarez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Glen Tapia | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2012 | W | Carlos Molina | — | 10 |
| 2011 | W | Alfredo Angulo | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2011 | W | Alexis Hloros | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Dennis Sharpe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Nobuhiro Ishida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Jhon Berrio | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Ahsandi Gibbs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Joel Julio | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Brian Vera | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Ricardo Cortes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Eromosele Albert | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Allen Conyers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mohammad Said Salem | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Ossie Duran | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Billy Lyell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2006 | W | David Toribio | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2006 | W | Sherwin Davis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Alexis Division | — | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Ray Cuningham | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | David Estrada | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Manny Castillo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Russell Jordan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Martinus Clay | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Sergio Soto | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Rodney Tappin | Decision | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Juan Carlos Aranday | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Edgar Pedraza | — | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Rashaan Abdul Blackburn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Jose Luis Rodrigues | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Maurice Chalmers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Juan Jaime Rodriguez | — | 1 |
| undated | W | Rashaan Abdul Blackburn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·James Kirkland (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.43%
70″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 18th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 29th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 24 of 36 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
34–3
37 bouts on record
Finish rate
88%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 95th percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2020. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
2001–2020
Longest unbeaten run
27
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
36 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ken Overlin+1.43% 70″ reach · 31st pct
- Carlos Molina+1.43% 70″ reach · 31st pct
- Fred Apostoli+1.43% 70″ reach · 31st pct
- Roman Karmazin+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
- Félix Trinidad+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
- Matthew Macklin+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
- José Benavidez Jr.+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
- Ishe Smith+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is James Kirkland's record?
- 34–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 38 bouts individually.
- How many of James Kirkland's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 38. 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 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Kirkland sits inside.
269 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing24 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Canelo Álvarez vs James KirklandA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2015 Longest unbeaten runsJames Kirkland went 27 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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