Ike Williams
68″ reach · -1.48% reach advantage · 6th percentile
128–24–5
Ike Williams has a reach of 68″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of -1.48%, unusually short for lightweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Ike Williams — 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 120 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | W | Beau Jack | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1954 | L | Rafael Lastre | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Jed Black | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Dom Zimbardo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1953 | L | Georgie Johnson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1953 | W | Billy Andy | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Vic Cardell | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Claude Hammond | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Carmen Basilio | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Pat Manzi | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1952 | L | Chuck Davey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1952 | W | Johnny Cunningham | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1951 | L | Gil Turner | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1951 | L | Don Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | L | Jimmy Carter | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1951 | W | Fitzie Pruden | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Beau Jack | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | L | Joe Miceli | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Vic Cardell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1951 | W | Ralph Zannelli | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1951 | W | José María Gatica | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1950 | W | Rudy Cruz | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Dave Marsh | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Joe Miceli | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Charley Salas | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | L | George Costner | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Lester Felton | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | John L Davis | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Sonny Boy West | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Johnny Bratton | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1949 | W | Jimmy Taylor | Decision | 6 |
| 1949 | W | Freddie Dawson | Decision | 15 |
| 1949 | W | Jean Walzack | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Al Mobley | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Doug Ratford | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Benny Walker | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Enrique Bolanos | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1949 | W | Irvin Steen | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Vince Turpin | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1949 | L | Kid Gavilán | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Johnny Bratton | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Billy Nixon | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | W | Buddy Garcia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | W | Jesse Flores | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Beau Jack | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Enrique Bolanos | Decision | 15 |
| 1948 | W | Rudy Cruz | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Kid Gavilán | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Livio Minelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Freddie Dawson | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Doug Carter | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Tony Pellone | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Talmadge Bussey | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1947 | W | Doll Rafferty | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Bob Montgomery | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Tippy Larkin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Juste Fontaine | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Ralph Zannelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Willie Russell | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Frankie Conti | KO/TKO | 7 |
Showing 60 of 146 recorded bouts, most recent first.
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ike Williams — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.48%
68″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 27th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 81st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1940s — 115 of 145 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
128–24
157 bouts on record
Finish rate
48%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 42nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
146 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1955. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1940–1955
Longest unbeaten run
34
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1944
18 bouts
Recorded bouts
146
145 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ismael Laguna-1.48% 68″ reach · 6th pct
- Kim Duk-koo-1.49% 65″ reach · 5th pct
- Anthony Crolla-1.45% 67″ reach · 8th pct
- Bobby Chacon-1.51% 64″ reach · 4th pct
- Liam Walsh-1.53% 66″ reach · 3rd pct
- Johnny Dundee-1.6% 63″ reach · 3rd pct
- Jimmy Goodrich-0.72% 65.5″ reach · 8th pct
- Masayoshi Nakatani-0.72% 71″ reach · 8th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ike Williams's record?
- 128–24–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 146 bouts individually.
- How many of Ike Williams's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 146. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Williams sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing115 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
36 FIGHTERS Carmen Basilio vs Ike WilliamsA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1953 Longest unbeaten runsIke Williams went 34 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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