Barbados Joe Walcott
65″ reach · +5.83% reach advantage · 87th percentile
96–31–27
Barbados Joe Walcott has a reach of 65″ against a height of 61.4″ — a reach advantage of +5.83%, long for welterweight boxing and the 87th percentile of the 130 compared here.
SOURCE·Barbados Joe Walcott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
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 2026-07-27. 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 130 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | L | Tom Sawyer | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1910 | W | Bobby Lee | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1910 | L | Kyle Whitney | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1910 | L | Bill MacKinnon | DQ | 6 |
| 1910 | D | Jimmy Potts | Decision | 10 |
| 1909 | D | Young Jack Johnson | Decision | 6 |
| 1909 | ? | Tom Sawyer | Draw | 6 |
| 1909 | L | Thunderbolt Ed Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 1908 | L | Jack Robinson | Decision | 10 |
| 1908 | L | Larry Temple | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1908 | L | Bartley Connolly | Decision | 6 |
| 1908 | ? | Bill Hurley | — | 7 |
| 1908 | W | Russell Van Horn | Decision | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Mike Lansing | Decision | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Charles Kemp | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1908 | ? | Charley Hitte | — | 6 |
| 1908 | D | Mike Donovan | Decision | 6 |
| 1908 | ? | Terry Martin | — | 6 |
| 1908 | ? | George Cole | — | 6 |
| 1908 | L | Jimmy Gardner | Decision | 20 |
| 1907 | ? | George Cole | — | 6 |
| 1907 | D | Mike Donovan | Decision | 15 |
| 1907 | W | Billy Payne | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1906 | L | William "Honey" Mellody | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1906 | D | Billy Rhodes | Decision | 20 |
| 1906 | W | Jack Dougherty | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1906 | W | Dave Holly | DQ | 3 |
| 1904 | D | Joe Gans | Decision | 20 |
| 1904 | ? | Dave Holly | — | 6 |
| 1904 | D | Sam Langford | Decision | 15 |
| 1904 | D | Larry Temple | Decision | 10 |
| 1904 | W | Mike Donovan | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1904 | L | Young Peter Jackson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | D | Sandy Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1904 | L | Dixie Kid | DQ | 20 |
| 1904 | ? | Black Bill | — | 6 |
| 1904 | W | Charlie Haghey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | W | Larry Temple | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | L | Sandy Ferguson | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Kid Carter | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Tom Carey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1903 | ? | Joe Grim | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Mose LaFontise | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | D | Young Peter Jackson | Decision | 20 |
| 1903 | W | Mysterious Billy Smith | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1903 | D | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | W | Mike Donovan | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | D | Billy Woods | Decision | 20 |
| 1903 | W | George Cole | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1903 | W | Charlie Haghey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1902 | L | Frank Childs | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | N | George Cole | — | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Tommy West | Decision | 15 |
| 1902 | L | George Gardiner | Decision | 20 |
| 1902 | ? | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | — | 6 |
| 1902 | D | Fred Russell | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Stift | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | D | Young Peter Jackson | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Jimmy Handler | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Rube Ferns | KO/TKO | 5 |
Showing 60 of 140 recorded bouts, most recent first.
24 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Barbados Joe Walcott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.83%
65″ reach on a 61.4″ frame
Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 65″ (165.1 cm) | 2nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 61.4″ (156 cm) | 0th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 68 of 140 dated bouts | |
| Country | Barbados |
Record
Boxing record
96–31
157 bouts on record
Finish rate
59%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 59th percentile
The career, bout by bout
140 recorded bouts from 1892 to 1910. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1892–1910
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1893
14 bouts
Recorded bouts
140
140 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Carlos González+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
- Brian Norman Jr.+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
- Devin Haney+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
- Andrew Lewis+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
- Erik Morales+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
- Pablo César Cano+5.93% 71″ reach · 92nd pct
- Young Peter Jackson+6.09% 70″ reach · 92nd pct
- Benny Leonard+6.18% 69″ reach · 93rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Barbados Joe Walcott's record?
- 96–31–27 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 140 bouts individually.
- 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.
