What is Matthew Saad Muhammad's record?

39–16–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 56 bouts individually.

How many of Matthew Saad Muhammad's bouts have no date?

1 of 56. 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.

Matthew Saad Muhammad — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

39–16–3

Matthew Saad Muhammad has a reach of 75″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +5.66%, long for light heavyweight boxing and the 82nd percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1974–1992 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Matthew Saad Muhammad — 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 98 light 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
1992	L	Jason Waller	KO/TKO	2
1991	L	Andrew Maynard	KO/TKO	3
1991	L	Mike Green	Decision	8
1991	W	Govoner Chavers	KO/TKO	1
1991	L	Anton Josipović	Decision	8
1991	L	Ed Mack	Decision	8
1990	L	Markus Bott	KO/TKO	3
1989	D	Kevin Wagstaff	Decision	8
1988	L	Frankie Swindell	KO/TKO	1
1988	W	Lee Harris	KO/TKO	1
1987	W	Bobby Thomas	Decision	10
1987	W	James Coakley	KO/TKO	3
1987	L	Pat Strachan	Decision	10
1986	W	Tomas Polo Ruiz	Decision	10
1986	L	Uriah Grant	Decision	10
1986	W	Chris Wells	KO/TKO	6
1984	L	Willie Edwards	KO/TKO	11
1983	W	Larry Davis	KO/TKO	10
1983	L	Eric Winbush	KO/TKO	3
1982	L	Dwight Muhammad Qawi	KO/TKO	6
1982	W	Pete McIntyre	KO/TKO	2
1981	L	Dwight Muhammad Qawi	KO/TKO	10
1981	W	Jerry Martin	KO/TKO	11
1981	W	Murray Sutherland	KO/TKO	9
1981	W	Vonzell Johnson	KO/TKO	11
1980	W	Lottie Mwale	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Yaqui López	KO/TKO	14
1980	W	Louis Pergaud	KO/TKO	5
1980	W	John Conteh	KO/TKO	4
1979	W	John Conteh	Decision	15
1979	W	Marvin Johnson	KO/TKO	8
1978	W	Yaqui López	KO/TKO	11
1978	W	Fred Bright	KO/TKO	8
1978	W	Dale Grant	KO/TKO	5
1978	W	Richie Kates	KO/TKO	6
1977	W	Dave Lee Royster	Decision	10
1977	W	Billy Douglas	KO/TKO	6
1977	W	Marvin Johnson	KO/TKO	12
1977	W	Ed Turner	KO/TKO	6
1977	W	Joe Maye	Decision	10
1977	L	Eddie Mustafa Muhammad	Decision	10
1976	D	Mate Parlov	Decision	10
1976	L	Marvin Camel	Decision	10
1976	W	Bobby Walker	KO/TKO	4
1976	W	Harold Carter	Decision	10
1975	D	Wayne McGee	Decision	6
1975	W	Roosevelt Brown	KO/TKO	4
1975	W	Vandell Woods	KO/TKO	6
1974	L	Wayne McGee	Decision	6
1974	W	Joe Middleton	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	Lloyd Richardson	KO/TKO	4
1974	W	Joe Jones	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Roy Ingram	Decision	4
1974	W	Mukeba Apolosa	Decision	4
1974	W	Billy Early	KO/TKO	2
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Matthew Saad Muhammad — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.66%

75″ reach on a 71″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	75″ (190.5 cm)	72nd pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	28th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 26 of 55 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

39–16

58 bouts on record

Finish rate

74%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 82nd percentile

By knockout 74%
By decision 26%

The career, bout by bout

56 recorded bouts from 1974 to 1992. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1974–1992

Career span

19y

1974–1992

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1974

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

56

55 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Matthew Saad Muhammad's record?: 39–16–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 56 bouts individually.
How many of Matthew Saad Muhammad's bouts have no date?: 1 of 56. 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

Light heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Muhammad sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

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

115 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Matthew Saad Muhammad went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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