James Smith
82″ reach · +7.93% reach advantage · 84th percentile
44–17–1
James Smith has a reach of 82″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +7.93%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·James Smith (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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Dave Slaughter | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Joe Bugner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Lynwood Jones | Decision | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Troy Roberts | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Eli Dixon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Bernd Friedrich | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | L | Brian Nielsen | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1994 | L | Axel Schulz | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | L | Lionel Butler | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Lester Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Marshall Tillman | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | L | Daniel Dăncuță | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Elijah Tillery | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1993 | W | Andrew Stokes | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Kevin Ford | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1993 | W | Donnell Wingfield | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | L | Michael Moorer | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | L | Greg Page | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Danny Wofford | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Mark Wills | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Andre Crowder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | L | Levi Billups | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Marshall Tillman | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Jeff Sims | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Everett Martin | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Kimmuel Odum | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Terry Armstrong | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Lawrence Carter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Weaver | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Manoel de Almeida | — | 6 |
| 1989 | W | Mike Rouse | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1989 | W | Jesse McGhee | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Calvin Jones | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1989 | L | Donovan Ruddock | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1988 | D | Mike Rouse | Draw | 3 |
| 1987 | L | Adílson Rodrigues | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | L | Mike Tyson | Decision | 12 |
| 1986 | W | Tim Witherspoon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | David Bey | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Mike Weaver | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | L | Marvis Frazier | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | L | Tim Witherspoon | Decision | 12 |
| 1985 | W | José Ribalta | — | 10 |
| 1985 | L | Tony Tubbs | — | 10 |
| 1984 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1984 | W | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Rahim Muhammad | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1983 | W | Leroy Boone | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Walter Santemore | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Eugene Cato | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Lynwood Jones | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Lee Cohen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Nate Robinson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Larry Givens | — | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Lonnie Chapman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Chris McDonald | — | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Louis Alexander | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Mike Cohen | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 63 recorded bouts, most recent first.
22 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·James Smith (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.93%
82″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 82″ (208.3 cm) | 83rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 31 of 62 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
44–17
62 bouts on record
Finish rate
73%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 60th percentile
The career, bout by bout
63 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1981–1999
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1991
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
63
62 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Travis Walker+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Abe Simon+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Joe Bugner+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Larry Donald+7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Larry Holmes+7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Fres Oquendo+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
- BJ Flores+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
- John Ruiz+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is James Smith's record?
- 44–17–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 63 bouts individually.
- How many of James Smith's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 63. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Smith sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing31 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS James Smith vs Michael MoorerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1993 Longest unbeaten runsJames Smith went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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