Dicky Eklund
70.1″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 9th percentile
19–10
Dicky Eklund has a reach of 70.1″ against a height of 70.1″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for welterweight boxing and the 9th percentile of the 130 compared here.
SOURCE·Dicky Eklund — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | W | James Lucas | — | 10 |
| 1983 | W | James Lucas | — | 12 |
| 1983 | L | Reggie Miller | — | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Terry Crawley | — | 10 |
| 1982 | L | Robert Sawyer | — | 12 |
| 1982 | W | Jeff Passero | — | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Cesar Guzman | — | 8 |
| 1982 | L | Kevin Howard | — | 10 |
| 1981 | L | Chris Clarke | — | 10 |
| 1981 | W | Allen Clarke | — | 9 |
| 1981 | W | C.J. Faison | — | 1 |
| 1980 | L | Fernando Fernandez | — | 10 |
| 1979 | L | Dave Boy Green | — | 10 |
| 1979 | W | Fernando Fernandez | — | 10 |
| 1978 | L | Sugar Ray Leonard | — | 10 |
| 1978 | L | Willie Rodriguez | — | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Al Cruz | — | 5 |
| 1977 | L | Erkki Meronen | — | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Rufus Miller | — | 8 |
| 1976 | W | Mike Michaud | — | 8 |
| 1976 | W | Randy Milton | — | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Jose Carlos Garcia | — | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Charlie Benjamin | — | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Terry Rondeau | — | 6 |
| 1975 | W | Jose Papo Melendez | — | 4 |
| 1975 | W | Avelino Dos Reis | — | 3 |
| 1975 | W | Eddie Hudson | — | 4 |
| 1975 | W | Doug Romano | — | 4 |
| 1975 | L | Joe DeFayette | — | 6 |
| undated | W | align=l | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
2 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Dicky Eklund — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
70.1″ reach on a 70.1″ frame
Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 63rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 83rd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 17 of 29 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
19–10
29 bouts on record
Finish rate
21%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 8th percentile
The career, bout by bout
31 recorded bouts from 1975 to 1985. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
11y
1975–1985
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1976
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
31
29 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Dicky Eklund's record?
- 19–10 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 31 bouts individually.
- How many of Dicky Eklund's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 31. 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 Eklund sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing17 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Dicky Eklund vs Sugar Ray LeonardA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1978 Longest unbeaten runsDicky Eklund went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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