Virgil Akins
60–31 · 84 recorded bouts · 1948–1962
60–31–2
Virgil Akins finished 57% of 60 wins inside the distance — the 69th percentile for 1950s boxing, where the median is 46%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Virgil Akins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-19
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 2025-10-19. 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 48 1950s 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | L | Rip Randall | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Ralph Dupas | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Vince Bonomo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1961 | D | Stefan Redl | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Jose Antonio Burgos | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Kenny Lane | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Henry White | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Cecil Shorts | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1961 | W | Billy Collins | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Gerald Gray | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | TJ Jones | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1960 | L | Candy McFarland | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Carl Hubbard | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1960 | L | Luis Manuel Rodriguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Charley Scott | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Fernando Barreto | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | L | Wally Swift | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | L | Don Fullmer | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Denny Moyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Kenny Lane | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Stan Harrington | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Luis Manuel Rodriguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Don Jordan | Decision | 15 |
| 1958 | L | Don Jordan | Decision | 15 |
| 1958 | L | Del Flanagan | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Charley Tombstone Smith | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Vince Martinez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1958 | W | Issac Logart | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1958 | W | Tony DeMarco | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1957 | W | Tony DeMarco | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1957 | L | Gil Turner | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Garnet Hart | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1957 | L | Franz Szuzina | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Walter Byars | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Jimmy Beecham | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1957 | W | Al Andrews | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1957 | W | Sammy Walker | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Pat Lowry | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | L | Charlie Sawyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Don Jose | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1956 | W | Hector Constance | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Andy Watkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Mel Barker | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Clarence Cook | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1956 | W | Rudolph Bent | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1955 | L | Issac Logart | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Harold Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Bill Sudduth | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Joe Miceli | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1955 | W | Ronnie Delaney | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1955 | D | Johnny Brown | Decision | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Tommy Maddox | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1954 | W | Henry Hank | Decision | 8 |
| 1954 | L | Andrew Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Joey Greenwood | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1953 | L | Philip Kim | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Johnny Gonsalves | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | L | Joe Miceli | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | L | Johnny Saxton | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Jay Watkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 84 recorded bouts, most recent first.
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Virgil Akins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-19
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | not recorded — compared by era instead | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 56 of 83 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Virgil Akins, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
60–31
93 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — 1950s boxing median 46%, 69th percentile
The career, bout by bout
84 recorded bouts from 1948 to 1962. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1948–1962
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1961
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
84
83 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Virgil Akins's record?
- 60–31–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 84 bouts individually.
- How many of Virgil Akins's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 84. 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.
