Harry Wills
84″ reach · +13.51% reach advantage · 99th percentile
89–10–7
Harry Wills has a reach of 84″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +13.51%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 99th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Harry Wills — 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | W | Big John Glover | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1932 | W | Vinko Jakasa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1931 | W | Jack Rose | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1929 | W | Andres Castano | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1927 | L | Paulino Uzcudun | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1926 | L | Jack Sharkey | DQ | 13 |
| 1925 | W | Floyd Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1925 | W | Charley Weinert | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1924 | W | Luis Ángel Firpo | — | 12 |
| 1924 | W | Bartley Madden | Decision | 15 |
| 1923 | W | Jack Thompson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1923 | W | Homer Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1922 | W | Clem Johnson | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1922 | W | Tut Jackson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1922 | W | Buddy Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1922 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1922 | W | Kid Norfolk | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1922 | W | Sam Langford | Decision | 10 |
| 1922 | D | Bill Tate | Decision | 10 |
| 1921 | W | Bill Tate | Decision | 12 |
| 1921 | N | Jack Thompson | — | 5 |
| 1921 | W | Denver Ed Martin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1921 | W | Clem Johnson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1921 | W | Edward "Gunboat" Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1921 | W | Ray Bennett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1921 | W | Battling Jim McCreary | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1921 | W | Andy Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1921 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1920 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1920 | N | Sam McVea | — | 6 |
| 1920 | W | Fred Fulton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1920 | W | Ray Bennett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1920 | W | Sam Langford | Decision | 15 |
| 1920 | W | Andy Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1920 | W | Jack Thompson | Decision | 15 |
| 1919 | W | Ole Anderson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1919 | W | Edward K.O. Kruvosky | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1919 | W | Sam Langford | Decision | 15 |
| 1919 | W | Joe Jennette | — | 8 |
| 1919 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1919 | W | John Lester Johnson | — | 8 |
| 1918 | D | Jack Thompson | Draw | 8 |
| 1918 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1918 | W | Sam McVea | Decision | 20 |
| 1918 | W | Sam Langford | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1917 | W | Jeff Clark | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1917 | D | Sam Langford | Draw | 12 |
| 1917 | W | Battling Jim Johnson | — | 10 |
| 1917 | W | Jack Thompson | — | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Jack Thompson | — | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Bill Tate | — | 10 |
| 1916 | W | George Kid Cotton | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1916 | W | Jeff Clark | Decision | 20 |
| 1916 | W | Sam Langford | — | 8 |
| 1916 | W | John Lester Johnson | — | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Sam Langford | — | 10 |
| 1915 | W | Sam McVea | Decision | 12 |
| 1915 | W | Battling Jim Johnson | — | 10 |
| 1915 | W | John Lester Johnson | Decision | 20 |
| 1914 | L | Sam McVea | Decision | 20 |
Showing 60 of 91 recorded bouts, most recent first.
22 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Harry Wills — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+13.51%
84″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 84″ (213.4 cm) | 94th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 54 of 89 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
89–10
111 bouts on record
Finish rate
63%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 40th percentile
The career, bout by bout
91 recorded bouts from 1911 to 1932. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1911–1932
Longest unbeaten run
58
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1914
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
91
89 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- George Chuvalo CM+13.89% 82″ reach · 99th pct
- Louis Monaco+12.7% 80″ reach · 99th pct
- Sam Langford+12.17% 74″ reach · 98th pct
- Hein ten Hoff+12.02% 84″ reach · 98th pct
- Bryant Jennings+12.02% 84″ reach · 98th pct
- Sonny Liston+15.1% 84″ reach · 100th pct
- Carl Williams+11.87% 85″ reach · 97th pct
- Audley Harrison+11.66% 86″ reach · 97th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Harry Wills's record?
- 89–10–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 91 bouts individually.
- How many of Harry Wills's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 91. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Wills sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing54 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
48 FIGHTERS Harry Wills vs Jack SharkeyA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1926 Longest unbeaten runsHarry Wills went 58 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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