What is Jimmy Young's record?

35–18–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 bouts individually.

How many of Jimmy Young's bouts have no date?

1 of 57. 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.

Jimmy Young — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

35–18–3

Jimmy Young has a reach of 74″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1969–1990 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Jimmy Young (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 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
1990	W	Carl Porter	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Frank Lux	Decision	10
1988	L	Tim Anderson	Decision	10
1988	W	Rick Kellar	Decision	10
1987	N	Mike Jameson	—	2
1987	L	Eddie Richardson	Decision	10
1986	L	Chuck Gardner	Decision	8
1986	W	Rocky Sekorski	Decision	10
1985	D	Tony Fulilangi	Decision	10
1984	L	Tony Tucker	Decision	10
1983	L	Tony Tubbs	Decision	10
1982	L	Philipp Brown	Decision	10
1982	L	Pat Cuillo	Decision	10
1982	L	Greg Page	Decision	12
1981	W	Tommy Thomas	Decision	10
1981	W	Tom Fischer	Decision	10
1981	W	Jeff Sims	Decision	10
1981	W	Marvin Stinson	Decision	10
1981	W	Gordon Racette	KO/TKO	10
1980	L	Gerry Cooney	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Don Halpin	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	John L. Gardner	Decision	10
1979	L	Michael Dokes	Decision	10
1979	W	Wendell Bailey	KO/TKO	3
1979	L	Ossie Ocasio	Decision	10
1978	L	Ossie Ocasio	Decision	10
1977	L	Ken Norton	Decision	15
1977	W	Jody Ballard	Decision	10
1977	W	George Foreman	Decision	12
1976	W	Ron Lyle	Decision	12
1976	W	Mike Boswell	KO/TKO	4
1976	W	Lou Rogan	KO/TKO	2
1976	L	Muhammad Ali	Decision	15
1976	W	Jose Roman	Decision	10
1975	W	Al Jones	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Bobby Lloyd	KO/TKO	5
1975	W	Ron Lyle	Decision	10
1974	D	Earnie Shavers	Decision	10
1974	W	Jose Luis Garcia	Decision	10
1974	W	Les Stevens	Decision	10
1974	W	John Jordan	Decision	6
1974	W	Richard Dunn	KO/TKO	8
1973	D	Billy Aird	Decision	8
1973	W	Mike Boswell	Decision	6
1973	W	Obie English	Decision	6
1973	L	Earnie Shavers	KO/TKO	3
1972	L	Randy Neumann	Decision	10
1972	W	Jasper Evans	Decision	6
1971	W	Lou Hicks	Decision	8
1971	W	Andy Geiger	KO/TKO	1
1971	L	Roy Williams	Decision	4
1970	W	Howard Darlington	Decision	6
1970	W	Jimmy Gilmore	Decision	4
1970	L	Clay Hodges	Decision	6
1969	W	Johnny Gause	Decision	6
1969	W	Jim Jones	KO/TKO	1
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Jimmy Young (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

74″ reach on a 74″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	15th pct
Height	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 33 of 56 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

35–18

57 bouts on record

Finish rate

31%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 5th percentile

By knockout 31%
By decision 69%

The career, bout by bout

57 recorded bouts from 1969 to 1990. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1969–1990

Career span

22y

1969–1990

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1974

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

57

56 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 Jimmy Young's record?: 35–18–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 bouts individually.
How many of Jimmy Young's bouts have no date?: 1 of 57. 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 Young sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

33 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS Jimmy Young vs Tony Tucker

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

1984 Longest unbeaten runs

Jimmy Young went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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