Jack Root
47–3 · 47 recorded bouts · 1897–1906
47–3–3
Jack Root finished 60% of 47 wins inside the distance — the 34th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jack Root — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10
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 2026-07-10. 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 587 heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | W | Fred Russell | Decision | 10 |
| 1905 | L | Marvin Hart | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1904 | W | John Willie | DQ | 5 |
| 1904 | ? | Tommy Ryan | — | 4 |
| 1904 | W | George Gardiner | Decision | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Fireman Jim Flynn | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1903 | L | George Gardiner | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1903 | W | Charles Kid McCoy | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Marvin Hart | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Kid Carter | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | L | George Gardiner | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Stift | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Kid Carter | DQ | 15 |
| 1901 | W | George Byers | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1900 | W | Dick O'Brien | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Dan Creedon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1900 | D | Tommy Ryan | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Ed Denfass | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | W | Jack Hammond | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Tommy West | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Alec Greggains | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Steiner | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Craig | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Billy Stift | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | John Banks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Fred Grant | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Johnny Gorman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Tom Burke | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1899 | W | Tom Casey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | W | Dick Moore | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Harry Peppers | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Tom Lansing | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Murphy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Jimmy Watts | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Moffat | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Mike Carroll | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | ? | George Ryan | — | 1 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Hammond | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Charles Whitey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Billy Philleth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | W | George Hipp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | W | Young Charlie White | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | W | Pat Brastand | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Charles Upton | KO/TKO | 4 |
10 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jack Root — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 26 of 47 dated bouts | |
| Country | Austria |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jack Root, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
47–3
55 bouts on record
Finish rate
60%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
47 recorded bouts from 1897 to 1906. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1897–1906
Longest unbeaten run
35
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1898
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
47
47 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jack Root's record?
- 47–3–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 47 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Root sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS Jack Root vs Marvin HartA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1902 Longest unbeaten runsJack Root went 35 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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