What is Ross Puritty's record?

31–20–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 bouts individually.

How many of Ross Puritty's bouts have no date?

1 of 54. 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.

Ross Puritty — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

31–20–3

Ross Puritty has a reach of 80″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +6.67%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 79th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1989–2007 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Ross Puritty — 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 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

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
2007	W	Carl Gathright	Decision	8
2007	L	David Cadieux	Decision	10
2005	L	Eddie Chambers	Decision	10
2004	L	Alexander Dimitrenko	Decision	8
2004	W	Tommy Connelly	KO/TKO	4
2003	W	John Dixon	KO/TKO	2
2002	L	Attila Levin	Decision	10
2002	L	Timo Hoffmann	Decision	12
2001	L	Vitali Klitschko	KO/TKO	11
2001	D	Sedreck Fields	Decision	10
2000	W	Ronnie Smith	KO/TKO	4
2000	L	Eliecer Castillo	Decision	10
2000	D	Frankie Swindell	Decision	10
1999	W	Louis Monaco	Decision	8
1999	W	Lorenzo Boyd	KO/TKO	3
1998	W	Wladimir Klitschko	KO/TKO	11
1998	W	Mark Hulstrom	KO/TKO	2
1998	L	Chris Byrd	Decision	10
1998	L	Larry Donald	Decision	10
1997	L	Corrie Sanders	Decision	12
1997	W	Joe Hipp	KO/TKO	10
1997	W	Calvin Jones	KO/TKO	5
1996	W	Jorge Luis González	KO/TKO	7
1996	W	Lionel Jackson	KO/TKO	1
1996	W	Michael Seals	KO/TKO	2
1996	L	Michael Grant	Decision	10
1996	L	Hasim Rahman	Decision	10
1996	W	Ron Brooks	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Stan Jones	KO/TKO	3
1995	W	Andre Smiley	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Cedric Harbaugh	DQ	3
1995	W	Tom Williams	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Lamar Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1995	W	Tyrone Dixon	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Max Key	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Ron Gullette	KO/TKO	4
1994	D	Tommy Morrison	Decision	10
1994	L	Kirk Johnson	Decision	6
1994	W	Derrick Roddy	Decision	6
1994	W	Jason Williams	Decision	4
1994	L	Brian Nielsen	Decision	6
1993	L	Will Hinton	Decision	6
1992	W	Juan Ramon Perez	KO/TKO	4
1992	W	Mike Bardwell	KO/TKO	2
1992	L	King Ipitan	Decision	4
1991	L	Derek Isaman	Decision	4
1991	W	Jose Avila	KO/TKO	1
1991	L	John Sargent	Decision	6
1990	L	Aleksandr Miroshnichenko	KO/TKO	6
1990	W	Troy Tutwiler	KO/TKO	3
1990	W	Sergio Hernandez	KO/TKO	1
1989	L	Cleveland Woods	KO/TKO	1
1989	W	Sergio Araujo	KO/TKO	1
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

17 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.67%

80″ reach on a 75″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	80″ (203.2 cm)	69th pct
Height	75″ (190.5 cm)	57th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1990s — 38 of 53 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

31–20

54 bouts on record

Finish rate

87%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 88th percentile

By knockout 87%
By decision 13%

The career, bout by bout

54 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1989–2007

Career span

19y

1989–2007

Longest unbeaten run

11

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1995

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

54

53 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ross Puritty's record?: 31–20–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 bouts individually.
How many of Ross Puritty's bouts have no date?: 1 of 54. 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

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Puritty sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing

38 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Ross Puritty went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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