Devon Alexander
69″ reach · +1.51% reach advantage · 38th percentile
27–9–1
Devon Alexander has a reach of 69″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +1.51%, short for welterweight boxing and the 38th percentile of the 130 compared here.
SOURCE·Devon Alexander — 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Vlad Panin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | L | Gabriel Maestre | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Luke Santamaria | Decision | 10 |
| 2019 | L | Ivan Redkach | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2018 | L | Andre Berto | Decision | 12 |
| 2018 | D | Victor Ortiz | Draw | 12 |
| 2017 | W | Walter Castillo | Decision | 10 |
| 2015 | L | Aaron Martinez | Decision | 10 |
| 2014 | L | Amir Khan | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Jesús Soto Karass | Decision | 10 |
| 2013 | L | Shawn Porter | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Lee Purdy | — | 7 |
| 2012 | W | Randall Bailey | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | W | Marcos Maidana | Decision | 10 |
| 2011 | W | Lucas Matthysse | — | 10 |
| 2011 | L | Timothy Bradley | — | 10 |
| 2010 | W | Andreas Kotelnik | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Juan Urango | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2009 | W | Junior Witter | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2009 | W | Jesús Rodríguez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2008 | W | Christopher Fernandez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Sun-Haeng Lee | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Miguel Callist | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | DeMarcus Corley | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Cory Peterson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Marcus Luck | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Scott Ball | — | 7 |
| 2007 | W | Maximino Cuevas | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2006 | W | Tyler Ziolkowski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Seth Hebenstreit | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Kelly Wright | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Christian Nash | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | John Rudolph | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Felix Lora | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Donovan Castaneda | Decision | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Karl Hunter | — | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Vincent Torres | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
15 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Devon Alexander — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.51%
69″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 34th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing competed at 2: light welterweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 19 of 37 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
27–9
37 bouts on record
Finish rate
52%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 47th percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
2004–2024
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
37 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Everaldo Costa Azevedo+1.51% 69″ reach · 38th pct
- Gairy St. Clair+1.54% 65″ reach · 40th pct
- Battling Shaw+1.47% 68″ reach · 33rd pct
- Steve Forbes+1.47% 68″ reach · 33rd pct
- Jimmy McLarnin+1.55% 67″ reach · 41st pct
- Greg Haugen+1.55% 67″ reach · 41st pct
- Alexander Besputin+1.47% 68″ reach · 33rd pct
- Rolando Romero+1.47% 68″ reach · 33rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Devon Alexander's record?
- 27–9–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 38 bouts individually.
- How many of Devon Alexander's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 38. 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 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Alexander sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing19 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsDevon Alexander went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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