Lionel Butler
72″ reach · +1.44% reach advantage · 28th percentile
32–17–1
Lionel Butler has a reach of 72″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +1.44%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 28th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Lionel Butler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30
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 2026-07-30. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | L | Damian Wills | Decision | 10 |
| 2010 | L | Andrey Fedosov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Fred Kassi | Decision | 6 |
| 2003 | L | Andre Purlette | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Dan Ward | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | John Dixon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Willie Driver | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Craig Brinson | Decision | 4 |
| 1998 | L | Brian Nielsen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Cleveland Woods | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1997 | L | Michael Grant | DQ | 4 |
| 1997 | W | Marcos Gonzalez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Bomani Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Salvador Maciel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Chris Byrd | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Mauricio Villegas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1995 | W | James Flowers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | ? | Eric Curry | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Jerry Jones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | James Smith | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Lawrence Carter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Tim Bullock | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Jesse Shelby | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Craig Payne | — | 7 |
| 1993 | W | Tony Willis | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1992 | W | John Morton | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Tony Tubbs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | David Dixon | DQ | 4 |
| 1992 | W | Juan Ramon Perez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Sam Adkins | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1991 | W | Terry Verners | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Dominic Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Don Askew | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | L | Kevin Ford | Decision | 8 |
| 1991 | W | James Ruffin | — | 1 |
| 1991 | L | Terry Davis | DQ | 2 |
| 1990 | L | Terry Davis | — | 5 |
| 1990 | L | Oliver McCall | — | 10 |
| 1990 | D | Sean McClain | Draw | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Vyacheslav Yakovlev | — | 6 |
| 1990 | L | Craig Petersen | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Tim Adams | Decision | 4 |
| 1990 | L | Sammy Speech | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Jerry Goff | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Troy Jefferson | Decision | 4 |
| 1989 | L | James Pritchard | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1989 | L | Cleveland Woods | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Michael Carroll | — | 6 |
| 1989 | L | Riddick Bowe | — | 2 |
| 1989 | L | Phil Jackson | — | 4 |
| undated | D | Sean | Draw | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Lionel Butler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.44%
72″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 9th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 38 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
32–17
51 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 74th percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2010. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1989–2010
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1990
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
51 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Orlin Norris+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Yvon Durelle+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Stanley Ketchel+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Jose Roman+1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Mike Tyson+1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Alen Babić+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Amir Mansour+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Iran Barkley+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Lionel Butler's record?
- 32–17–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 bouts individually.
- How many of Lionel Butler's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 53. 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 Butler sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing38 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsLionel Butler went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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