Honey Mellody
51–33 · 85 recorded bouts · 1902–1913
51–33–23
Honey Mellody finished 59% of 51 wins inside the distance — the 57th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·William "Honey" Mellody — 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 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 292 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | L | Harry Price | Decision | 10 |
| 1913 | W | Dave Powers | Decision | 10 |
| 1913 | L | Noah Brusso | — | 12 |
| 1912 | L | Terry Mitchell | — | 10 |
| 1912 | L | Terry Martin | Decision | 12 |
| 1912 | L | Al Rogers | Decision | 15 |
| 1912 | W | Billy West | DQ | 7 |
| 1912 | D | Tommy Furey | Decision | 10 |
| 1912 | D | Noah Brusso | Decision | 12 |
| 1912 | D | Frank Perron | Decision | 12 |
| 1911 | L | Joe Heffernan | — | 6 |
| 1911 | D | Jimmy Moriarty | Decision | 12 |
| 1911 | D | Kid Fleming | Draw | 6 |
| 1911 | D | Young Nitchie | Decision | 8 |
| 1911 | W | Ellis Sanborn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1911 | L | Terry Martin | — | 6 |
| 1911 | W | Jim Mitchen | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1911 | D | Young Griffo | Draw | 6 |
| 1911 | L | Charley Lawrence | — | 10 |
| 1911 | W | Joe Stein | — | 10 |
| 1911 | L | Willie KO Brennan | Decision | 10 |
| 1911 | L | Frank Perron | — | 10 |
| 1911 | L | Bill Hurley | — | 10 |
| 1911 | L | Paddy Lavin | — | 10 |
| 1911 | L | Jimmy Perry | — | 6 |
| 1910 | D | Maurice Lemoine | Decision | 12 |
| 1910 | L | Kid Shea | — | 12 |
| 1910 | D | Frank Perron | Decision | 12 |
| 1910 | L | Jimmy Moriarty | Decision | 12 |
| 1910 | D | Terry Martin | Decision | 15 |
| 1910 | L | Young Loughrey | Decision | 10 |
| 1910 | W | Unk Russell | Decision | 8 |
| 1910 | W | Young Jack Johnson | Decision | 12 |
| 1910 | L | Kyle Whitney | — | 10 |
| 1909 | W | Billy Rolfe | Decision | 12 |
| 1909 | L | Terry Martin | Decision | 15 |
| 1909 | W | Curly Watson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1909 | L | Willie Lewis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1908 | L | Harry Lewis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1908 | L | Unk Russell | — | 6 |
| 1907 | L | Frank Mantell | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1907 | W | Jim Donovan | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1907 | L | Mike "Twin" Sullivan | Decision | 20 |
| 1907 | L | Joe Thomas | — | 6 |
| 1907 | W | Willie Lewis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | W | Terry Martin | Decision | 15 |
| 1906 | W | Barbados Joe Walcott | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1906 | L | Joe Thomas | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1906 | W | Willie Lewis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1906 | D | Jack Dougherty | Decision | 8 |
| 1906 | W | Charlie McKeever | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1906 | W | Terry Martin | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1905 | W | Jack O'Keefe | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1905 | W | George Peterson | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1905 | D | Dick Fitzpatrick | Decision | 6 |
| 1905 | W | Martin Duffy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1905 | W | Jerry McCarthy | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1905 | D | Tommy Sullivan | Decision | 12 |
| 1905 | W | Fred Douglas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1904 | L | Buddy Ryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing 60 of 85 recorded bouts, most recent first.
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·William "Honey" Mellody — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1900s — 50 of 84 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Honey Mellody, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
51–33
107 bouts on record
Finish rate
59%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 57th percentile
The career, bout by bout
85 recorded bouts from 1902 to 1913. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1902–1913
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1911
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
85
84 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Honey Mellody's record?
- 51–33–23 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 bouts individually.
- How many of Honey Mellody's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 85. 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.
