Mike Williams
83″ reach · +9.22% reach advantage · 90th percentile
22–6
Mike Williams has a reach of 83″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +9.22%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 90th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Mike Williams (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
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 2026-07-28. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | L | Lawrence Clay-Bey | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1999 | L | Albert Stewart | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Gary Butler | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | L | Corrie Sanders | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Rick Hoard | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | L | Alex García | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Jimmy Bills | Decision | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Elvin Evans | Decision | 6 |
| 1992 | W | Juan Ramon Perez | Decision | 4 |
| 1991 | W | Russell Rierson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | L | Buster Douglas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1988 | W | Dorcey Gaymon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Art Terry | Decision | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Leon Dixon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | L | Tim Witherspoon | — | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Rufus Hadley | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Ken Elliott | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | W | Billy Joe Thomas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1987 | W | James Tillis | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1986 | W | Robert Obey | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1986 | W | Tommy Taylor | — | 5 |
| 1986 | W | Terry Armstrong | — | 6 |
| 1986 | W | John Barbier | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | Carl Dorsey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Ronald Turner | Decision | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Lorenzo Boyd | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Guy Ramsey | — | 4 |
| 1984 | W | Walter Morris | — | 3 |
6 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mike Williams (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.22%
83″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 83″ (210.8 cm) | 92nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 18 of 28 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
22–6
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 41st percentile
The career, bout by bout
28 recorded bouts from 1984 to 2000. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1984–2000
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1986
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
28
28 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Sirimongkol Singmanasak+9.13% 72″ reach · 90th pct
- Kevin Johnson+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Steve Cunningham+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Donovan Ruddock+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Frank Bruno+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Lennox Lewis+9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Carlos Takam+9.09% 80.3″ reach · 89th pct
- Kirk Johnson+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mike Williams's record?
- 22–6 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 bouts individually.
- 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 Williams sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing18 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMike Williams went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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