John Murray
70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 47th percentile
33–3
John Murray has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, average for lightweight boxing and the 47th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·John Murray (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 120 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Anthony Crolla | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2014 | W | John Simpson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Michael Escobar | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2011 | L | Brandon Ríos | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2011 | L | Kevin Mitchell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2011 | W | Karim El Ouazghari | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Andriy Kudryavtsev | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2010 | W | Gary Buckland | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2009 | W | Jon Thaxton | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Scott Lawton | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2009 | W | Lee McAllister | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Lee Meager | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Youssef Al Hamidi | Decision | 8 |
| 2007 | W | Miguel Angel Munguia | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Dean Hickman | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Lorenzo Bethea | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2007 | W | Ben Odamattey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2006 | W | Billy Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Mouibi Sarouna | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | W | Ignacio Mendoza | — | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Tyrone Wiggins | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Azad Azizov | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Johnny Walker | — | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Mounir Guebbas | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Karl Taylor | Decision | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Harry Ramogoadi | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Daniel Thorpe | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Ernie Smith | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Dariusz Snarski | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Anthony Hanna | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | John Paul Ryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Norman Dhalie | — | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Jason Nesbitt | Decision | 6 |
| 2003 | W | Matthew Burke | — | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Peter Buckley | — | 4 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·John Murray (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.95%
70″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 55th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 64th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 27 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
33–3
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
2003–2014
Longest unbeaten run
29
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
35 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Scott Harrison+3% 69″ reach · 48th pct
- Léo Santa Cruz+3% 69″ reach · 48th pct
- Artur Grigorian+3% 69″ reach · 48th pct
- Hilmer Kenty+2.87% 72″ reach · 45th pct
- Alberto Machado+2.87% 72″ reach · 45th pct
- Bobby Pacquiao+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
- Sharif Bogere+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
- Teddy Davis+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is John Murray's record?
- 33–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 bouts individually.
- How many of John Murray's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 36. 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 Murray sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing27 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJohn Murray went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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