Jim Watt
38–8 · 46 recorded bouts · 1968–1981
38–8
Jim Watt finished 71% of 38 wins inside the distance — the 80th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jim Watt (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 258 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | L | Alexis Argüello | Decision | 15 |
| 1980 | W | Sean O'Grady | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1980 | W | Howard Davis Jr. | Decision | 15 |
| 1980 | W | Charlie Nash | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Robert Vasquez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1979 | W | Alfredo Pitalua | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1978 | W | Antonio Guinaldo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1978 | W | Billy Vivian | Decision | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Perico Fernández | Decision | 15 |
| 1977 | W | Jeronimo Lucas | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1977 | W | Andre Holyk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Johnny Claydon | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1976 | W | Franco Diana | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1976 | L | Johnny Claydon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1976 | W | Hector Diaz | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1976 | W | Jimmy Revie | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1976 | W | George Turpin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1975 | L | Andre Holyk | Decision | 12 |
| 1975 | L | Jonathan Dele | Decision | 15 |
| 1975 | W | Billy Waith | Decision | 10 |
| 1975 | W | John Cheshire | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1974 | L | Anthony Morodi | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Billy Waith | Decision | 12 |
| 1974 | W | Kokkie Olivier | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Andries Steyn | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1973 | W | Angus McMillan | Decision | 8 |
| 1973 | W | Noel McIvor | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1973 | W | John Cheshire | Decision | 8 |
| 1973 | L | Ken Buchanan | Decision | 15 |
| 1972 | W | Noel McIvor | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1972 | W | Tony Riley | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1972 | L | Willie Reilly | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1971 | W | Leonard Tavarez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1971 | W | Willie Reilly | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1971 | W | Henri Nesi | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1971 | W | David Pesenti | Decision | 8 |
| 1970 | W | Ronnie Clifford | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1970 | W | Sammy Lockhart | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1970 | W | Bryn Lewis | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1970 | W | Victor Paul | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1969 | W | Tommy Tiger | Decision | 8 |
| 1969 | W | Winston Thomas | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1969 | W | Victor Paul | Decision | 8 |
| 1968 | W | Alex Gibson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1968 | W | Santos Martins | KO/TKO | 4 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jim Watt (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 36 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jim Watt, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
38–8
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
71%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 80th percentile
The career, bout by bout
46 recorded bouts from 1968 to 1981. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1968–1981
Longest unbeaten run
15
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1976
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
46
45 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jim Watt's record?
- 38–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 46 bouts individually.
- How many of Jim Watt's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 46. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Watt sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Alexis Argüello vs Jim WattA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1981 Longest unbeaten runsJim Watt went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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