Jack Blackburn
117–24 · 136 recorded bouts · 1900–1923
117–24–22
Jack Blackburn finished 29% of 117 wins inside the distance — the 16th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jack Blackburn — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18
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 2026-07-18. 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 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | L | Ray Pelkey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1922 | L | Panama Joe Gans | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1922 | W | Bonecrusher McNally | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1922 | W | Calvin Respress | — | 10 |
| 1920 | W | Young Jack Johnson | Decision | 8 |
| 1920 | L | Kid Norfolk | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1920 | W | Smiling Kid Nolan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1918 | W | Jimmy Lyggett Sr. | — | 6 |
| 1918 | W | Harry Baker | — | 8 |
| 1918 | W | Larry Williams | — | 8 |
| 1918 | W | Willie Langford | — | 12 |
| 1917 | W | Young Herman Miller | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Henry Hauber | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Joe Rosen | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Pat O'Malley | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Joe Borrell | — | 6 |
| 1917 | L | Larry Williams | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Harry Baker | — | 6 |
| 1917 | W | Christy Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1916 | L | Jackie Clark | — | 10 |
| 1916 | L | Eddie Revoire | — | 6 |
| 1916 | L | Joe Borrell | — | 6 |
| 1916 | D | Young Ahearn | Draw | 10 |
| 1916 | W | George K O Samson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1916 | W | Willie Baker | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1916 | W | Joe Rosen | — | 6 |
| 1916 | W | One Round Sylvester | — | 8 |
| 1915 | W | One Round Sylvester | — | 8 |
| 1915 | W | Jack Watts | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1915 | L | Eddie Palmer | Decision | 8 |
| 1915 | D | Al Rogers | Draw | 6 |
| 1915 | L | Harry Greb | — | 6 |
| 1915 | L | Harry Baker | — | 6 |
| 1914 | D | Al Grayber | Draw | 6 |
| 1914 | L | Emmett 'Kid' Wagner | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1914 | L | Bill Watkins | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1914 | L | Young Tommy Coleman | — | 6 |
| 1914 | L | Jack McCarron | — | 6 |
| 1914 | L | Gunboat Smith | — | 6 |
| 1914 | W | Tommy Howell | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Harry Mansfield | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Jack Robinson | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Mickey McDonough | — | 3 |
| 1908 | W | Professor Mike Donovan | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | George Memsic | — | 6 |
| 1908 | N | Cy Flynn | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | John Willie | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Tony Caponi | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | George Gunther | — | 6 |
| 1908 | L | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Steve Crosby | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Mark Anderson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1908 | W | Bill Heveron | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1908 | W | Young Tommy Coleman | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Terry Martin | — | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Charley Hitte | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1908 | W | Jack Bonner | — | 6 |
| 1907 | W | Professor Mike Donovan | — | 10 |
| 1907 | W | Jack Morgan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | George Gunther | KO/TKO | 5 |
Showing 60 of 136 recorded bouts, most recent first.
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jack Blackburn — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 2: welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1900s — 96 of 136 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jack Blackburn, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
117–24
168 bouts on record
Finish rate
29%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 16th percentile
The career, bout by bout
136 recorded bouts from 1900 to 1923. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1900–1923
Longest unbeaten run
19
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1903
17 bouts
Recorded bouts
136
136 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jack Blackburn's record?
- 117–24–22 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 136 bouts individually.
- 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.
