What is Meldrick Taylor's record?

38–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 bouts individually.

How many of Meldrick Taylor's bouts have no date?

2 of 49. 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.

Meldrick Taylor — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

38–8–1

Meldrick Taylor has a reach of 66″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for light middleweight boxing and the 5th percentile of the 78 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1984–2002 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Meldrick Taylor — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

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 2026-08-02. 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 78 light middleweight 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
2002	L	Wayne Martell	Decision	10
2002	W	Dillon Carew	Decision	8
1999	W	Manuel De Leon	Decision	8
1999	W	Tim Scott	KO/TKO	3
1999	L	Quirino Garcia	Decision	12
1998	L	Hasan Al	Decision	10
1998	W	Rafael Salas	Decision	6
1996	L	Darren Maciunski	Decision	10
1996	W	Tommy Small	Decision	10
1996	W	Kenneth Kidd	KO/TKO	1
1994	L	Julio César Chávez	KO/TKO	8
1994	W	Chad Broussard	KO/TKO	2
1994	W	Craig Houk	KO/TKO	3
1993	W	Henry Hughes	KO/TKO	2
1992	L	Crisanto España	KO/TKO	8
1992	L	Terry Norris	KO/TKO	4
1992	W	Glenwood Brown	Decision	12
1991	W	Ernie Chavez	KO/TKO	6
1991	W	Luis Garcia	—	12
1991	W	Aaron Davis	Decision	12
1990	W	Primo Ramos	Decision	10
1990	L	Julio César Chávez	KO/TKO	12
1990	W	Ramon Flores	KO/TKO	1
1989	W	Jaime Balboa	KO/TKO	5
1989	W	Courtney Hooper	Decision	12
1989	W	John Wesley Meekins	—	7
1988	W	Buddy McGirt	KO/TKO	12
1988	W	Martin Quiroz	Decision	10
1988	W	Ivan Gonzalez	KO/TKO	5
1987	W	Richard Fowler	KO/TKO	2
1987	W	Irleis Perez	Decision	10
1987	W	Primo Ramos	Decision	10
1987	W	Roque Montoya	Decision	10
1986	W	Danny Vargas	KO/TKO	2
1986	D	Howard Davis Jr.	Draw	10
1986	W	Harold Brazier	Decision	10
1986	W	Jose Rivera	KO/TKO	6
1986	W	Robin Blake	Decision	10
1985	W	Victor Acosta	Decision	8
1985	W	Carlos Santana	KO/TKO	4
1985	W	Roberto Medina	Decision	6
1985	W	Hugo Carrizo	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Nery Reyes	—	1
1985	W	Elias Martinez	KO/TKO	5
1985	W	Darrell Curtis	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Dwight Pratchett	—	6
1984	W	Luke Lecce	—	1
undated	W	John Wesley Meekins	—	7
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Meldrick Taylor — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

66″ reach on a 66″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 78 light middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.87%.

-1.5%light middleweight boxing reach advantage9.9%

Measurements
Reach	66″ (167.6 cm)	1st pct
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)	3rd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 24 of 47 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

38–8

47 bouts on record

Finish rate

53%

of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 26th percentile

By knockout 53%
By decision 47%

The career, bout by bout

49 recorded bouts from 1984 to 2002. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1984–2002

Career span

19y

1984–2002

Longest unbeaten run

24

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1985

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

49

47 with a date

Closest in build

light middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Meldrick Taylor's record?: 38–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 bouts individually.
How many of Meldrick Taylor's bouts have no date?: 2 of 49. 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 middleweight boxing

The 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Taylor sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

24 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Howard Davis vs Meldrick Taylor

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

1986 Longest unbeaten runs

Meldrick Taylor went 24 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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