Sam Sexton
71″ reach · -4.1% reach advantage · 1st percentile
24–4
Sam Sexton has a reach of 71″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of -4.1%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 1st percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Sam Sexton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
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 2026-07-07. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | L | Hughie Fury | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2017 | W | Gary Cornish | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | W | Hari Miles | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Peter Erdos | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2015 | W | Tomas Mrazek | Decision | 6 |
| 2015 | W | Kamil Sokolowski | Decision | 6 |
| 2014 | W | Larry Olubamiwo | Decision | 6 |
| 2013 | W | Jiri Svacina | Decision | 6 |
| 2013 | W | Tomas Mrazek | Decision | 6 |
| 2012 | W | Tayar Mehmed | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | L | David Price | — | 4 |
| 2012 | W | Larry Olubamiwo | — | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Remigijus Ziausys | Decision | 6 |
| 2010 | L | Derek Chisora | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2009 | W | Martin Rogan | — | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Colin Kenna | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Chris Burton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Luke Simpkin | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Pelé Reid | — | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Derek Chisora | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Darren Morgan | Decision | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Luke Simpkin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2007 | W | Paul King | Decision | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Lee Mountford | — | 2 |
| 2006 | W | István Kecskés | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Jason Callum | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Paul Bonson | — | 6 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Sam Sexton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-4.1%
71″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 5th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 14 of 27 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
24–4
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
38%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 7th percentile
The career, bout by bout
28 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2005–2018
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2008
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
28
27 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Taurus Sykes-4.1% 71″ reach · 1st pct
- Nathan Gorman-3.94% 73″ reach · 1st pct
- Rocky Marciano-4.27% 67″ reach · 0th pct
- Mihai Nistor-3.83% 69.3″ reach · 2nd pct
- Gonzalo Omar Basile-5.1% 74″ reach · 0th pct
- Victor Emilio Ramírez-2.77% 69″ reach · 2nd pct
- Ingemar Johansson-2.73% 70.1″ reach · 2nd pct
- Gunboat Smith-2.71% 72″ reach · 3rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Sam Sexton's record?
- 24–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 bouts individually.
- How many of Sam Sexton's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 28. 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 Sexton sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing14 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
730 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsSam Sexton went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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