What is Cleveland Williams's record?

82–13–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 94 bouts individually.

How many of Cleveland Williams's bouts have no date?

1 of 94. 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.

Cleveland Williams — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

82–13–2

Cleveland Williams has a reach of 78″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +5.37%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 71st percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1949–1973 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Cleveland Williams — 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 317 heavyweight 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
1973	W	Roberto Davila	Decision	10
1972	W	Bob Mashburn	KO/TKO	9
1972	W	Terry Daniels	Decision	12
1971	L	George Chuvalo	Decision	10
1971	L	Jack O'Halloran	Decision	10
1971	W	Ted Gullick	Decision	10
1970	L	Alvin Lewis	KO/TKO	4
1970	W	Roberto Davila	Decision	10
1970	W	Eddie Brooks	KO/TKO	1
1969	W	Leroy Caldwell	KO/TKO	10
1969	L	Mac Foster	KO/TKO	3
1969	L	Al Jones	KO/TKO	8
1969	W	Charley Polite	Decision	10
1968	L	Bob Cleroux	Decision	10
1968	W	Moses Harrell	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Jean Roy	Decision	10
1968	W	Leslie Borden	KO/TKO	1
1968	W	Mike Bruce	KO/TKO	1
1968	W	Roy Crear	KO/TKO	1
1966	L	Muhammad Ali	KO/TKO	3
1966	W	Tod Herring	KO/TKO	3
1966	W	Sonny Moore	Decision	10
1966	W	Mel Turnbow	Decision	10
1966	W	Ben Black	KO/TKO	1
1964	W	Billy Daniels	Decision	10
1964	W	Sonny Banks	KO/TKO	6
1964	W	Tommy Fields	Decision	10
1963	W	Roger Rischer	KO/TKO	3
1963	W	Kirk Barrow	KO/TKO	3
1963	L	Ernie Terrell	Decision	10
1963	W	Young Jack Johnson	KO/TKO	10
1963	W	Billy Daniels	Decision	10
1962	W	Dave Bailey	KO/TKO	5
1962	D	Eddie Machen	Decision	10
1962	W	Alonzo Johnson	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Ernie Terrell	KO/TKO	7
1961	W	James Wiley	KO/TKO	1
1961	W	Alex Miteff	KO/TKO	5
1961	W	Wayne Bethea	Decision	10
1960	W	Johnny Hayden	KO/TKO	2
1960	W	George Moore	KO/TKO	4
1960	W	Ben Marshall	KO/TKO	2
1960	L	Sonny Liston	KO/TKO	2
1959	W	Curley Lee	KO/TKO	10
1959	W	Ernie Cab	KO/TKO	8
1959	L	Sonny Liston	KO/TKO	3
1959	W	Ollie Wilson	KO/TKO	3
1958	W	Howie Turner	Decision	10
1958	W	Frankie Daniels	Decision	10
1958	W	Dick Richardson	DQ	4
1958	W	Gene White	KO/TKO	1
1957	W	Frankie Daniels	Decision	10
1957	W	John Holman	KO/TKO	7
1957	W	Bob Albright	KO/TKO	7
1957	W	Clifford Gray	KO/TKO	1
1957	W	J.D. Marshall	KO/TKO	2
1957	W	Johnny Mason	KO/TKO	1
1956	W	Johnny Hollins	KO/TKO	3
1954	L	Bob Satterfield	KO/TKO	3
1954	W	Sylvester Jones	KO/TKO	6

Showing 60 of 94 recorded bouts, most recent first.

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.37%

78″ reach on a 74″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	78″ (198.1 cm)	53rd pct
Height	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	—
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1950s — 47 of 93 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

82–13

97 bouts on record

Finish rate

76%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 66th percentile

By knockout 76%
By decision 24%

The career, bout by bout

94 recorded bouts from 1949 to 1973. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1949–1973

Career span

25y

1949–1973

Longest unbeaten run

24

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1952

18 bouts

Recorded bouts

94

93 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Cleveland Williams's record?: 82–13–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 94 bouts individually.
How many of Cleveland Williams's bouts have no date?: 1 of 94. 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Williams sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

47 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

49 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Cleveland Williams went 24 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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