What is Terry Norris's record?

47–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 56 bouts individually.

How many of Terry Norris's bouts have no date?

2 of 56. 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.

Terry Norris — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

47–9

Terry Norris has a reach of 68″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of -1.48%, unusually short for light middleweight boxing and the 1st percentile of the 78 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1986–1998 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Terry Norris (boxer) — 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 78 light middleweight 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
1998	L	Laurent Boudouani	KO/TKO	9
1998	L	Dana Rosenblatt	Decision	12
1997	L	Keith Mullings	KO/TKO	9
1997	W	Andres Arellano Sandoval	KO/TKO	2
1997	W	Joaquin Velasquez	KO/TKO	2
1997	W	Nick Rupa	KO/TKO	10
1996	W	Alex Rios	KO/TKO	5
1996	W	Vincent Pettway	KO/TKO	8
1996	W	Jorge Luis Vado	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Paul Vaden	Decision	12
1995	W	David Gonzalez	KO/TKO	9
1995	W	Luis Santana	KO/TKO	2
1994	L	Luis Santana	DQ	5
1994	W	Simon Brown	Decision	12
1994	W	Armando Campas	KO/TKO	4
1993	L	Simon Brown	KO/TKO	4
1993	W	Joe Gatti	KO/TKO	1
1993	W	Troy Waters	KO/TKO	3
1993	W	Maurice Blocker	KO/TKO	2
1992	W	Pat Lawlor	KO/TKO	3
1992	W	Meldrick Taylor	KO/TKO	4
1992	W	Carl Daniels	KO/TKO	9
1991	W	Jorge Fernando Castro	Decision	12
1991	W	Brett Lally	KO/TKO	1
1991	W	Donald Curry	KO/TKO	8
1991	W	Sugar Ray Leonard	Decision	12
1990	W	Rene Jacquot	Decision	12
1990	W	John Mugabi	KO/TKO	1
1989	W	Tony Montgomery	Decision	12
1989	W	Jorge Vaca	Decision	10
1989	W	Nathan Dryer	KO/TKO	4
1989	L	Julian Jackson	KO/TKO	2
1989	W	Ralph Ward	Decision	10
1989	W	Buster Drayton	Decision	12
1988	W	Steve Little	KO/TKO	6
1988	W	Gilbert Baptist	Decision	10
1988	W	Quincy Taylor	Decision	10
1988	W	Clayton Hires	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Richard Aguirre	KO/TKO	3
1988	W	Roman Nunez	KO/TKO	1
1987	L	Joe Walker	DQ	1
1987	W	Edward Neblett	KO/TKO	6
1987	L	Derrick Kelly	Decision	10
1987	W	Nathan Dryer	KO/TKO	3
1987	W	Sergio Nieto Rayos	KO/TKO	1
1987	W	Mauro Veronica	KO/TKO	2
1987	W	Tino Leon	KO/TKO	1
1987	W	Dick Green	KO/TKO	1
1987	W	Gilbert Baptist	Decision	4
1986	W	Lang McGowan	Decision	4
1986	W	Carlos Gutierrez	Decision	6
1986	W	Daryl Colquitt	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	George Murphy	Decision	4
1986	W	Jose Luis Cordova	KO/TKO	1
undated	W	Edward Neblett	KO/TKO	6
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

22 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.48%

68″ reach on a 69″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 78 light middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.87%.

-1.5%light middleweight boxing reach advantage9.9%

Measurements
Reach	68″ (172.7 cm)	5th pct
Height	69″ (175.3 cm)	38th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1990s — 28 of 54 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

47–9

56 bouts on record

Finish rate

66%

of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 55th percentile

By knockout 66%
By decision 34%

The career, bout by bout

56 recorded bouts from 1986 to 1998. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1986–1998

Career span

13y

1986–1998

Longest unbeaten run

15

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1987

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

56

54 with a date

Closest in build

light middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Terry Norris's record?: 47–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 56 bouts individually.
How many of Terry Norris's bouts have no date?: 2 of 56. 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

Light middleweight boxing

The 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Norris sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing

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

307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Terry Norris went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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