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Terry Downes

69″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 16th percentile

Boxing record

35–9

Terry Downes has a reach of 69″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for light heavyweight boxing and the 16th percentile of the 98 compared here.

19501960UNFILEDwin v Hamouda Bouraoui, 1957, kowin v George Lavery, 1957, koloss v Les Allen, 1957, decisionwin v Eddie Phillips, 1957, kowin v Derek Liversidge, 1957, kowin v Lew Lazar, 1957, decisionwin v John Woolard, 1957, kowin v Sammy Hamilton, 1957, kowin v Alan Dean, 1957, koloss v Dick Tiger, 1957, kowin v Jimmy Lynas, 1957, kowin v Peter Longo, 1957, koloss v Ellsworth Webb, 1958, kowin v Mohammed Ben Taibi, 1958, kowin v Phil Edwards, 1958, kowin v Constant Alcantara, 1958, kowin v Pat McAteer, 1958, decisionwin v Tuzo Portuguez, 1958, decisionwin v Salah Ben Fahrat, 1958, kowin v Dennis Booty, 1958, koloss v Freddie Cross, 1958, kowin v Serge Leveque, 1958, kowin v John McCormack, 1959, kowin v Andre Davier, 1959, koloss v Michel Diouf, 1959, kowin v Joey Giardello, 1960, decisionwin v Phil Edwards, 1960, kowin v Richard Bouchez, 1960, kowin v Orlando DePietro, 1960, kowin v Carlos Vanneste, 1960, kowin v Paul Pender, 1961, kowin v Tony Montano, 1961, kowin v Willie Greene, 1961, kowin v Sugar Ray Robinson, 1962, decisionwin v Don Fullmer, 1962, decisionloss v Paul Pender, 1962, decisionwin v Mike Pusateri, 1963, kowin v Rudolf Nehring, 1963, kowin v Jimmy Beecham, 1963, kowin v Phil Moyer, 1963, koloss v Willie Pastrano, 1964, kowin v Ed Zaremba, 1964, decisionresult not stated v Opponent, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1957–1964 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Terry Downes — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-25. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 98 light 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
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1964 L Willie Pastrano KO/TKO11
1964 W Ed Zaremba Decision10
1963 W Mike Pusateri KO/TKO5
1963 W Rudolf Nehring KO/TKO3
1963 W Jimmy Beecham KO/TKO9
1963 W Phil Moyer KO/TKO9
1962 W Sugar Ray Robinson Decision10
1962 W Don Fullmer Decision10
1962 L Paul Pender Decision15
1961 W Paul Pender KO/TKO9
1961 W Tony Montano KO/TKO5
1961 W Willie Greene KO/TKO3
1960 W Joey Giardello Decision10
1960 W Phil Edwards KO/TKO12
1960 W Richard Bouchez KO/TKO2
1960 W Orlando DePietro KO/TKO4
1960 W Carlos Vanneste KO/TKO4
1959 W John McCormack KO/TKO8
1959 W Andre Davier KO/TKO7
1959 L Michel Diouf KO/TKO5
1958 L Ellsworth Webb KO/TKO8
1958 W Mohammed Ben Taibi KO/TKO3
1958 W Phil Edwards KO/TKO13
1958 W Constant Alcantara KO/TKO3
1958 W Pat McAteer Decision8
1958 W Tuzo Portuguez Decision8
1958 W Salah Ben Fahrat KO/TKO4
1958 W Dennis Booty KO/TKO3
1958 L Freddie Cross KO/TKO6
1958 W Serge Leveque KO/TKO4
1957 W Hamouda Bouraoui KO/TKO4
1957 W George Lavery KO/TKO5
1957 L Les Allen Decision8
1957 W Eddie Phillips KO/TKO3
1957 W Derek Liversidge KO/TKO2
1957 W Lew Lazar Decision8
1957 W John Woolard KO/TKO7
1957 W Sammy Hamilton KO/TKO3
1957 W Alan Dean KO/TKO4
1957 L Dick Tiger KO/TKO5
1957 W Jimmy Lynas KO/TKO3
1957 W Peter Longo KO/TKO1
undated ? Opponent ——

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Terry Downes — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

69″ reach on a 69″ frame

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%
Measurements
Reach69″ (175.3 cm)3rd pct
Height69″ (175.3 cm)9th pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLight Heavyweight Boxing
competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade1950s — 25 of 42 dated bouts
CountryUnited Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

35–9

44 bouts on record

Finish rate

80%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 88th percentile

By knockout: 28 (80%)By decision: 7 (20%)
  • By knockout 80%
  • By decision 20%

The career, bout by bout

43 recorded bouts from 1957 to 1964. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

1960 win vs Hamouda Bouraoui (1957)win vs George Lavery (1957)loss vs Les Allen (1957)win vs Eddie Phillips (1957)win vs Derek Liversidge (1957)win vs Lew Lazar (1957)win vs John Woolard (1957)win vs Sammy Hamilton (1957)win vs Alan Dean (1957)loss vs Dick Tiger (1957)win vs Jimmy Lynas (1957)win vs Peter Longo (1957)loss vs Ellsworth Webb (1958)win vs Mohammed Ben Taibi (1958)win vs Phil Edwards (1958)win vs Constant Alcantara (1958)win vs Pat McAteer (1958)win vs Tuzo Portuguez (1958)win vs Salah Ben Fahrat (1958)win vs Dennis Booty (1958)loss vs Freddie Cross (1958)win vs Serge Leveque (1958)win vs John McCormack (1959)win vs Andre Davier (1959)loss vs Michel Diouf (1959)win vs Joey Giardello (1960)win vs Phil Edwards (1960)win vs Richard Bouchez (1960)win vs Orlando DePietro (1960)win vs Carlos Vanneste (1960)win vs Paul Pender (1961)win vs Tony Montano (1961)win vs Willie Greene (1961)win vs Sugar Ray Robinson (1962)win vs Don Fullmer (1962)loss vs Paul Pender (1962)win vs Mike Pusateri (1963)win vs Rudolf Nehring (1963)win vs Jimmy Beecham (1963)win vs Phil Moyer (1963)loss vs Willie Pastrano (1964)win vs Ed Zaremba (1964)
winlossdraw / NC1957–1964

Career span

8y

1957–1964

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1957

12 bouts

Recorded bouts

43

42 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Terry Downes's record?
35–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 bouts individually.
How many of Terry Downes's bouts have no date?
1 of 43. 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.

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