Neil Simpson
79″ reach · +6.76% reach advantage · 81st percentile
26–19–1
Neil Simpson has a reach of 79″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +6.76%, long for cruiserweight boxing and the 81st percentile of the 80 compared here.
SOURCE·Neil Simpson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-18
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 2026-05-18. 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 80 cruiserweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | Dean Francis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Derek Chisora | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | D | Paul Bonson | Decision | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Nick Okoth | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2008 | W | Tony Booth | Decision | 4 |
| 2007 | W | John Anthony | Decision | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Tony Booth | Decision | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Varuzhan Davtyan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Gareth Hogg | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | L | Leigh Alliss | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Paul Bonson | Decision | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Hastings Rasani | Decision | 6 |
| 2004 | L | Mark Brookes | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | L | Peter Oboh | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2002 | L | Tony Oakey | — | 12 |
| 2001 | L | Yawe Davis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Hastings Rasani | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Mark Delaney | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Mark Baker | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | L | Darren Corbett | — | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Tony Booth | Decision | 10 |
| 1999 | W | Adam Cale | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Alvin Miller | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Greg Scott Briggs | Decision | 6 |
| 1997 | L | Chris Woollas | Decision | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Alvin Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Stuart Fleet | Decision | 10 |
| 1997 | W | Michael Pinnock | Decision | 6 |
| 1996 | L | Danny Peters | Decision | 6 |
| 1996 | W | Nigel Rafferty | Decision | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Chris Davies | Decision | 4 |
| 1996 | L | Dean Francis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Tony Booth | Decision | 6 |
| 1996 | L | Stephen Wilson | Decision | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Greg Scott Briggs | — | 7 |
| 1995 | W | Darren Ashton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | L | Tony Booth | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Dave Owens | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Andy McVeigh | — | 2 |
| 1995 | L | Craig Joseph | Decision | 6 |
| 1995 | L | Thomas Hansvoll | Decision | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Paul Murray | Decision | 6 |
| 1994 | L | Chris Woollas | Decision | 6 |
| 1994 | W | Johnny Hooks | — | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Kenny Nevers | — | 4 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Neil Simpson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-18
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.76%
79″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters. Median 2.74%.
| Reach | 79″ (200.7 cm) | 90th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 64th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 26 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
26–19
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
42%
of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 13th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1994 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1994–2009
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
cruiserweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Manny Siaca+6.85% 78″ reach · 83rd pct
- Thomas Hearns+6.85% 78″ reach · 83rd pct
- Marvin Camel+6.91% 79.1″ reach · 85th pct
- Hugo Garay+6.94% 77″ reach · 86th pct
- Virgil Hill+6.94% 77″ reach · 86th pct
- Adolpho Washington+7.04% 76″ reach · 89th pct
- Darnell Wilson+7.14% 75″ reach · 90th pct
- Firat Arslan+7.14% 76.8″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Neil Simpson's record?
- 26–19–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 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.
