Dick Tiger
71″ reach · +4.83% reach advantage · 72nd percentile
60–19–3
Dick Tiger has a reach of 71″ against a height of 67.7″ — a reach advantage of +4.83%, above average for light heavyweight boxing and the 72nd percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Dick Tiger — 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 98 light 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | L | Emile Griffith | Decision | 10 |
| 1969 | W | Andy Kendall | Decision | 10 |
| 1969 | W | Nino Benvenuti | Decision | 10 |
| 1968 | W | Frank DePaula | Decision | 10 |
| 1968 | L | Bob Foster | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1967 | W | Roger Rouse | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1967 | W | José Torres | Decision | 15 |
| 1967 | W | Abraham Tomica | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1966 | W | José Torres | Decision | 15 |
| 1966 | L | Emile Griffith | Decision | 15 |
| 1966 | W | Peter Mueller | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1965 | W | Joey Giardello | Decision | 15 |
| 1965 | W | Rubin Carter | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Juan Carlos Rivero | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1964 | L | Joey Archer | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Don Fullmer | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Jose Monon Gonzalez | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1963 | L | Joey Giardello | Decision | 15 |
| 1963 | W | Gene Fullmer | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1962 | W | Gene Fullmer | Decision | 15 |
| 1962 | W | Henry Hank | Decision | 10 |
| 1962 | W | Florentino Fernández | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1961 | W | William Pickett | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Hank Casey | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Ellsworth Webb | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1961 | W | Gene Armstrong | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1960 | W | Wilf Greaves | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1960 | W | Víctor Zalazar | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Gene Armstrong | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Holly Mims | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Joey Giardello | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Gene Armstrong | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Rory Calhoun | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Randy Sandy | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Yolande Pompey | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | L | Ellsworth Webb | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Billy Ellaway | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1958 | W | Pat McAteer | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1958 | W | Johnny Read | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1958 | W | Jimmy Lynas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1958 | W | Jean Ruellet | — | 8 |
| 1957 | W | Paddy Delargy | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1957 | D | Pat McAteer | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Jean Claude Poisson | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Phil Edwards | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Alan Dean | Decision | 8 |
| 1957 | L | Willie Armstrong | Decision | 8 |
| 1957 | W | Marius Dori | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1957 | W | Terry Downes | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1957 | W | Johnny Read | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Alan Dean | Decision | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Jimmy Lynas | Decision | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Wally Scott | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1956 | W | Dennis Rowley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1956 | L | George Roe | Decision | 8 |
| 1956 | L | Gerry McNally | Decision | 8 |
| 1955 | L | Alan Dean | Decision | 6 |
| 1955 | W | Bolaji Johnson | Decision | 8 |
| 1955 | W | John Ama | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1955 | W | Raheem Fagbemi | Decision | 8 |
Showing 60 of 76 recorded bouts, most recent first.
15 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Dick Tiger — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.83%
71″ reach on a 67.7″ frame
Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67.7″ (172 cm) | 4th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 45 of 74 dated bouts | |
| Country | Nigeria |
Record
Boxing record
60–19
82 bouts on record
Finish rate
45%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 28th percentile
The career, bout by bout
76 recorded bouts from 1952 to 1970. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1952–1970
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1957
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
76
74 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mike McTigue+4.57% 72″ reach · 70th pct
- Adrian Diaconu+4.57% 72″ reach · 70th pct
- Montell Griffin+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Harry Greb+4.4% 71″ reach · 68th pct
- Maurice Harris+5.28% 80″ reach · 73rd pct
- Ezequiel Maderna+5.32% 78″ reach · 74th pct
- Julius Jackson+5.37% 78″ reach · 76th pct
- Winky Wright+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Dick Tiger's record?
- 60–19–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 76 bouts individually.
- How many of Dick Tiger's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 76. 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 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tiger sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing45 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Dick Tiger vs Nino BenvenutiA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1969 Longest unbeaten runsDick Tiger went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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