What is James Tillis's record?

42–22–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 69 bouts individually.

How many of James Tillis's bouts have no date?

1 of 69. 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.

James Tillis — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

42–22–1

James Tillis has a reach of 80″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +9.6%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 93rd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1978–2001 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·James Tillis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15

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 2026-07-15. 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
2001	L	Rob Calloway	KO/TKO	9
1999	L	Tim Puller	Decision	10
1996	L	Cliff Couser	KO/TKO	6
1996	W	Craig Payne	Decision	8
1995	N	Will Hinton	—	3
1995	L	Alexander Zolkin	Decision	10
1992	W	Stan White Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1991	W	Danny Blake	Decision	10
1991	L	Tommy Morrison	KO/TKO	1
1990	W	Carlton West	KO/TKO	3
1990	?	Larry Holmes	—	2
1989	L	Adilson Rodrigues	Decision	10
1989	L	Arthel Lawhorne	Decision	10
1988	L	Gary Mason	KO/TKO	5
1988	L	Evander Holyfield	KO/TKO	5
1988	W	Rodney Smith	KO/TKO	2
1987	W	Dennis Jackson	KO/TKO	5
1987	L	Johnny DuPlooy	KO/TKO	10
1987	L	Frank Bruno	KO/TKO	5
1987	W	Ronnie Douglas	KO/TKO	5
1987	L	Mike Williams	KO/TKO	8
1987	?	Mike Tyson	—	4
1986	D	Avery Rawls	Decision	10
1986	W	Lorenzo Boyd	KO/TKO	3
1986	W	Eddie Richardson	Decision	10
1986	L	Joe Bugner	Decision	10
1986	W	Art Terry	Decision	8
1986	W	Mark Young	KO/TKO	8
1986	L	Mike Tyson	Decision	10
1986	L	Tyrell Biggs	Decision	8
1985	L	Gerrie Coetzee	Decision	10
1985	L	Marvis Frazier	Decision	10
1984	W	Bashir Wadud	Decision	10
1984	L	Carl Williams	Decision	10
1984	W	Michael Bennett	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Billy Joe Thomas	KO/TKO	3
1984	W	Bobby Crabtree	KO/TKO	3
1984	W	Otis Bates	KO/TKO	2
1983	L	Tim Witherspoon	KO/TKO	1
1983	W	Lynwood Jones	KO/TKO	4
1983	W	Larry Givens	KO/TKO	2
1983	W	Grady Daniels	KO/TKO	4
1983	W	Leroy Boone	Decision	10
1982	L	Greg Page	KO/TKO	8
1982	L	Pinklon Thomas	KO/TKO	8
1982	W	Earnie Shavers	Decision	10
1982	W	Jerry Williams	KO/TKO	3
1981	L	Mike Weaver	Decision	15
1981	W	Tom Fischer	Decision	10
1980	W	Domingo D'Elia	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Mike Koranicki	Decision	10
1980	W	Eric Sedillo	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Walter Santemore	Decision	10
1980	W	Frank Schram	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Ron Stander	KO/TKO	7
1980	W	Roy Wallace	Decision	10
1979	W	Al Jones	KO/TKO	4
1979	W	Harry Terrell	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Bob Whaley	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Jimmy Cross	KO/TKO	2

Showing 60 of 69 recorded bouts, most recent first.

23 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·James Tillis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+9.6%

80″ reach on a 73″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	80″ (203.2 cm)	69th pct
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)	27th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1980s — 45 of 68 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

42–22

65 bouts on record

Finish rate

74%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 63rd percentile

By knockout 74%
By decision 26%

The career, bout by bout

69 recorded bouts from 1978 to 2001. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1978–2001

Career span

24y

1978–2001

Longest unbeaten run

19

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1979

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

69

68 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 James Tillis's record?: 42–22–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 69 bouts individually.
How many of James Tillis's bouts have no date?: 1 of 69. 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 Tillis sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

45 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS James Tillis vs Tommy Morrison

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

1991 Longest unbeaten runs

James Tillis went 19 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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