Virgil Hill
77″ reach · +6.94% reach advantage · 86th percentile
51–7
Virgil Hill has a reach of 77″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +6.94%, long for cruiserweight boxing and the 86th percentile of the 80 compared here.
SOURCE·Virgil Hill — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 80 cruiserweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | W | Jimmy Campbell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Firat Arslan | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | L | Henry Maske | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Valery Brudov | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | L | Jean-Marc Mormeck | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Donny Lalonde | Decision | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Joey DeGrandis | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Carlos Bates | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Jean-Marc Mormeck | — | 8 |
| 2000 | W | Fabrice Tiozzo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Glenn Thomas | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | James Hayes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Roy Jones Jr. | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1997 | L | Dariusz Michalczewski | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Henry Maske | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Lou Del Valle | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Drake Thadzi | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Crawford Ashley | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Frank Tate | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Guy Waters | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Saúl Montana | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Sergio Daniel Merani | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Fabrice Tiozzo | — | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Adolpho Washington | — | 11 |
| 1992 | W | Frank Tate | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Lottie Mwale | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1992 | W | Aundrey Nelson | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | L | Thomas Hearns | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Mike Peak | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Frank Minton | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Tyrone Frazier | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | David Vedder | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | James Kinchen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Joe Lasisi | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1989 | W | Bobby Czyz | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Willie Featherstone | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Ramzi Hassan | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Jean-Marie Emebe | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1987 | W | Rufino Angulo | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Leslie Stewart | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Junior Edmonds | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Marcos Geraldo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Marvin Camel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | James Williams | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1986 | W | Clarence Osby | Decision | 12 |
| 1986 | W | Eric Winbush | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Wayne Caplette | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Marcus Dorsey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | Willie Mayberry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Mike Sedillo | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Santiago Valdez | — | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Abdul Hakim | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1986 | W | James Williamson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1986 | W | Fred Jordan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Dawud Shaw | Decision | 6 |
| 1985 | W | David Vedder | — | 6 |
| 1985 | W | John Tyrell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Arthur Wright | — | 2 |
| undated | W | style="text-align:l | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Virgil Hill — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.94%
77″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters. Median 2.74%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 69th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 25th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 26 of 58 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
51–7
58 bouts on record
Finish rate
47%
of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 16th percentile
The career, bout by bout
60 recorded bouts from 1984 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
32y
1984–2015
Longest unbeaten run
29
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1986
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
60
58 with a date
Closest in build
cruiserweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Hugo Garay+6.94% 77″ reach · 86th pct
- Marvin Camel+6.91% 79.1″ reach · 85th pct
- Manny Siaca+6.85% 78″ reach · 83rd pct
- Thomas Hearns+6.85% 78″ reach · 83rd pct
- Adolpho Washington+7.04% 76″ reach · 89th pct
- Neil Simpson+6.76% 79″ reach · 81st pct
- Darnell Wilson+7.14% 75″ reach · 90th pct
- Firat Arslan+7.14% 76.8″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Virgil Hill's record?
- 51–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 bouts individually.
- How many of Virgil Hill's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 60. 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 161 cruiserweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Hill sits inside.
161 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing26 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Henry Maske vs Virgil HillA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1996 Longest unbeaten runsVirgil Hill went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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