What is Buster Drayton's record?

40–15–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 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.

Buster Drayton — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

40–15–1

Buster Drayton has a reach of 74″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +4.27%, above average for middleweight boxing and the 72nd percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1978–1995

SOURCE·Buster Drayton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

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 2026-07-07. 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 123 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
1995	L	Derrick Rolon	Decision	12
1994	W	Jose Vera	Decision	6
1993	W	Robert Harris	KO/TKO	4
1992	W	Gary Smith	KO/TKO	3
1992	W	Eric Mustafa Cole	KO/TKO	8
1992	W	Jose Vera	Decision	8
1991	L	Eric Holland	Decision	10
1991	W	Gary Jones	Decision	8
1989	L	Brinatty Maquilon	KO/TKO	8
1989	W	Darryl Fromm	Decision	10
1989	L	Terry Norris	Decision	12
1988	L	Julian Jackson	KO/TKO	3
1987	W	Leroy Jones	KO/TKO	4
1987	L	Matthew Hilton	Decision	15
1987	W	Said Skouma	KO/TKO	10
1987	W	Juan Alonso Villa	KO/TKO	2
1986	W	Davey Moore	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Benito Fernandez	KO/TKO	6
1986	W	Carlos Santos	Decision	15
1986	W	Sam Leonard	KO/TKO	5
1986	W	Bruce Jackson	KO/TKO	5
1985	W	John Jarvis	KO/TKO	6
1985	W	Dennis Johnson	KO/TKO	10
1985	L	James Kinchen	Decision	10
1985	W	Thomas Smith	Decision	10
1984	W	Tony Harrison	KO/TKO	10
1984	W	Terry Holmes	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Gary Coates	KO/TKO	4
1984	W	Mark Kaylor	KO/TKO	7
1984	W	Jimmy Cable	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Gregory Clark	KO/TKO	2
1983	L	Fred Hutchings	Decision	10
1983	L	Mario Maldonado	Decision	10
1983	W	Patricio Diaz	Decision	10
1983	W	Clinton Jackson	KO/TKO	2
1983	W	David Plowden	Decision	8
1983	L	Bushy Bester	Decision	10
1982	L	Sumbu Kalambay	Decision	8
1982	W	Bruce Johnson	KO/TKO	9
1982	W	Duane Thomas	KO/TKO	7
1982	L	Lindell Holmes	Decision	10
1982	W	Dan Snyder	Decision	8
1981	W	DC Walker	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Tyrone Demby	Decision	6
1981	L	Mario Maldonado	Decision	8
1981	L	Mark Holmes	Decision	6
1981	W	Dan Snyder	KO/TKO	4
1980	L	Kevin Perry	KO/TKO	3
1980	N	Curtis Taylor	—	8
1980	W	Bill Harrington	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Clifford Smith	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Julius Spell	Decision	4
1979	W	Jesse Carter	KO/TKO	6
1979	W	Bob Saxton	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Frank Moore	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	Jesse Carter	Decision	6
1978	D	Charles Carey	Decision	4

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Buster Drayton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.27%

74″ reach on a 71″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	77th pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	68th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: light middleweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 42 of 57 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

40–15

57 bouts on record

Finish rate

70%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 71st percentile

By knockout 70%
By decision 30%

The career, bout by bout

57 recorded bouts from 1978 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1978–1995

Career span

18y

1978–1995

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1983

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

57

57 with a date

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Buster Drayton's record?: 40–15–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 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.

Cross-references

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Drayton sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

42 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Buster Drayton went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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