Darren Barker
73″ reach · +1.37% reach advantage · 26th percentile
26–2
Darren Barker has a reach of 73″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +1.37%, short for middleweight boxing and the 26th percentile of the 123 compared here.
SOURCE·Darren Barker — 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 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Felix Sturm | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Daniel Geale | — | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Simone Rotolo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2012 | W | Kerry Hope | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2011 | L | Sergio Martínez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2011 | W | Domenico Spada | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Affif Belghecham | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Danny Butler | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2009 | W | Darren McDermott | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Jason McKay | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Larry Sharpe | Decision | 10 |
| 2008 | W | Steven Bendall | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2007 | W | Ben Crampton | — | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Greg Barton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Paul Samuels | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ojay Abrahams | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Hussain Osman | Decision | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Conroy McIntosh | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2006 | W | Danny Thornton | — | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Louis Mimoune | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Richard Mazurek | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | John Paul Temple | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Dean Walker | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Ernie Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Andrei Sherel | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Leigh Wicks | — | 4 |
| 2004 | W | David White | — | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Howard Clarke | — | 6 |
| undated | W | Affif Belghecham | Decision | 12 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Darren Barker — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.37%
73″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 64th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 80th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 21 of 28 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
26–2
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
62%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 54th percentile
The career, bout by bout
30 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
2004–2013
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
30
28 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Serhii Bohachuk+1.37% 73″ reach · 26th pct
- Al Hostak+1.37% 73″ reach · 26th pct
- Matthew Macklin+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
- José Benavidez Jr.+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
- Ishe Smith+1.41% 71″ reach · 28th pct
- Kelly Pavlik+1.33% 75″ reach · 25th pct
- James Kirkland+1.43% 70″ reach · 31st pct
- Ken Overlin+1.43% 70″ reach · 31st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Darren Barker's record?
- 26–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 30 bouts individually.
- How many of Darren Barker's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 30. 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 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Barker sits inside.
269 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing21 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsDarren Barker went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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