Jess Willard
25–7 · 32 recorded bouts · 1911–1923
25–7–2
Jess Willard finished 80% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 76th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jess Willard — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08
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 2026-07-08. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | L | Luis Angel Firpo | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1923 | W | Floyd Johnson | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1919 | L | Jack Dempsey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1916 | W | Frank Moran | — | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Jack Johnson | KO/TKO | 26 |
| 1914 | W | George Rodel | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1914 | W | Dan Dailey | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1914 | L | Tom McMahon | — | 12 |
| 1913 | W | George Rodel | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1913 | W | George Davis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1913 | W | Carl Morris | — | 10 |
| 1913 | W | Jack Reed | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1913 | W | Bull Young | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1913 | W | Al Williams | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1913 | D | Charley Miller | Decision | 4 |
| 1913 | L | Gunboat Smith | Decision | 20 |
| 1913 | W | Jack Leon | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1913 | W | Frank Bauer | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1912 | W | Soldier Kearns | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1912 | W | Sailor White | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1912 | D | Luther McCarty | Draw | 10 |
| 1912 | W | Arthur Pelkey | — | 10 |
| 1912 | W | Bull Young | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1912 | W | Frank Bauer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1911 | L | Joe Cox | — | 5 |
| 1911 | W | Mike McKimminsky | Decision | 10 |
| 1911 | W | Frank Lyons | Decision | 10 |
| 1911 | W | William Schiller | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1911 | W | Al Mandino | Decision | 4 |
| 1911 | W | Lewis Fink | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1911 | W | Ed Burke | — | 3 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jess Willard — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 78″ (198.1 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 29 of 31 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jess Willard, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
25–7
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 76th percentile
The career, bout by bout
32 recorded bouts from 1911 to 1923. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1911–1923
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1913
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
32
31 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jess Willard's record?
- 25–7–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 32 bouts individually.
- How many of Jess Willard's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 32. 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 Willard sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing29 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
48 FIGHTERS Jack Dempsey vs Jess WillardA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1919 Longest unbeaten runsJess Willard went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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