Peter Jackson
57–5 · 88 recorded bouts · 1882–1899
57–5–15
Peter Jackson finished 51% of 57 wins inside the distance — the 19th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Peter Jackson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
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 2026-07-03. 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 587 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | L | Jim Jeffords | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1898 | L | James J. Jeffries | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1892 | W | Denny Kelliher | — | 3 |
| 1892 | W | Frank Slavin | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1892 | W | Joe Butler | Decision | 3 |
| 1892 | W | James Dalton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1892 | W | Jack King | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1891 | N | James J. Corbett | — | 61 |
| 1890 | D | Mick Dooley | Draw | 4 |
| 1890 | D | Joe Goddard | Decision | 8 |
| 1890 | ? | William Power | — | 3 |
| 1890 | ? | WH Watson | — | 3 |
| 1890 | D | Martin Costello | Draw | 4 |
| 1890 | W | Mick O'Brien | — | 4 |
| 1890 | ? | Jack Burke | — | 6 |
| 1890 | W | Tom Johnson | Decision | 4 |
| 1890 | W | Denver Ed Smith | Decision | 5 |
| 1890 | W | Dick Keating | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1890 | ? | Gus Lambert | — | 4 |
| 1890 | ? | Jack Fallon | — | 2 |
| 1890 | W | The Gypsy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1890 | W | James J. Walker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1889 | W | Peter Maher | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Scotchy Gunn | Decision | 4 |
| 1889 | W | W Woodhams | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Sailor White | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Woolf Bendoff | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Skinner | DQ | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Charles Burgin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Horace Horrigan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Jem Smith | DQ | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Alf Mitchell | Decision | 4 |
| 1889 | W | Alf Ball | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Jem Young | Decision | 4 |
| 1889 | W | Jack Partridge | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Jack Fallon | Decision | 4 |
| 1889 | W | James Ginger McCormick | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Billy Baker | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Paddy Brennan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1889 | W | Tom Lynch | DQ | 2 |
| 1889 | ? | Tom Lees | — | 4 |
| 1889 | W | George Peters | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | W | Charles Brown | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1889 | W | Shorty Kincaid | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1889 | W | Patsy Cardiff | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1888 | W | Joe McAuliffe | KO/TKO | 24 |
| 1888 | W | George Godfrey | KO/TKO | 19 |
| 1888 | W | M.J. Sullivan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1888 | D | Larry Foley | Draw | 4 |
| 1888 | D | Mick Dooley | Draw | 4 |
| 1888 | W | Tom Taylor | — | 4 |
| 1888 | L | Martin Costello | Decision | 4 |
| 1887 | ? | Mick Dooley | — | 2 |
| 1887 | ? | Stonewall Jack | — | 2 |
| 1887 | ? | Steve O'Donnell | — | 3 |
| 1887 | W | Jim Nolan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1887 | W | Harry Stanley | — | 4 |
| 1887 | ? | Tom Taylor | — | 4 |
| 1887 | ? | Dan Hickey | — | 4 |
| 1887 | D | George Seale | Draw | 4 |
Showing 60 of 88 recorded bouts, most recent first.
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Peter Jackson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1880s — 64 of 86 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Peter Jackson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
57–5
105 bouts on record
Finish rate
51%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
88 recorded bouts from 1882 to 1899. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1882–1899
Longest unbeaten run
33
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1889
23 bouts
Recorded bouts
88
86 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Peter Jackson's record?
- 57–5–15 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 88 bouts individually.
- How many of Peter Jackson's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 88. 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 Jackson sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS James J. Corbett vs Peter JacksonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1891 Longest unbeaten runsPeter Jackson went 33 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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