What is Young Jack Thompson's record?

79–31–12 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 111 bouts individually.

How many of Young Jack Thompson's bouts have no date?

1 of 111. 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.

Young Jack Thompson — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

79–31–12

Young Jack Thompson finished 56% of 79 wins inside the distance — the 52nd percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1922–1932 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Jack Thompson (boxer) — 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 record template — 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 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1932	W	Leonard Bennett	Decision	6
1932	L	Charlie Cobb	Decision	10
1932	W	Al Trulmans	Decision	10
1932	W	Bermondsey Billy Wells	KO/TKO	6
1932	L	Jimmy Evans	Decision	10
1931	L	Lou Brouillard	Decision	15
1931	W	Tommy Jones	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Speedball Turner	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Pete August	Decision	10
1931	L	Bucky Lawless	Decision	10
1931	W	Tommy Freeman	KO/TKO	12
1931	W	Larry Kaufman	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Babe Anderson	KO/TKO	9
1930	L	Tommy Freeman	Decision	15
1930	L	Young Corbett III	Decision	10
1930	W	Joe Cardoza	KO/TKO	3
1930	W	Jimmy Dolan	KO/TKO	3
1930	W	Bermondsey Billy Wells	KO/TKO	2
1930	W	Jackie Fields	Decision	15
1930	L	Jimmy McLarnin	Decision	10
1930	W	Freddie Fitzgerald	Decision	10
1930	L	Thomas "Bucky" Lawless	Decision	10
1929	W	Bermondsey Billy Wells	Decision	10
1929	W	Billy White	KO/TKO	8
1929	L	Freddie Fitzgerald	Decision	10
1929	W	Oakland Jimmy Duffy	KO/TKO	10
1929	W	Jimmy Evans	KO/TKO	9
1929	L	Jackie Fields	Decision	10
1929	W	Heavy Andrews	Decision	10
1929	W	Ham Jenkins	Decision	10
1929	W	Harry Dudley	KO/TKO	6
1929	W	James Red Herring	KO/TKO	7
1928	W	Tommy Red Bragan	KO/TKO	4
1928	W	Sam Bruce	KO/TKO	10
1928	W	Danny Gordon	KO/TKO	2
1928	L	Jackie Fields	Decision	10
1928	W	Joe Dundee	KO/TKO	2
1928	W	Gene Cardi	KO/TKO	6
1928	W	Eddie Dempsey	KO/TKO	4
1928	W	Russie LeRoy	KO/TKO	5
1928	W	Billy Light	Decision	8
1928	L	Oakland Jimmy Duffy	DQ	9
1928	W	Johnny O'Donnell	KO/TKO	8
1928	L	Young Corbett III	Decision	10
1928	W	Don Fraser	KO/TKO	3
1928	W	Johnny Adams	KO/TKO	4
1927	W	Charlie Feraci	KO/TKO	5
1927	D	Young Corbett III	Decision	10
1927	W	Irineo Flores	KO/TKO	2
1927	W	Harry Brown	Decision	10
1927	W	King Tut	Decision	10
1927	D	Tommy Cello	Decision	10
1927	W	Danny McCoy	Decision	6
1927	W	Sanford Risdon	Decision	4
1926	L	Russell Whalen	Decision	10
1926	D	Sailor Teddy Makegon	Decision	10
1926	W	Billy Alger	Decision	10
1926	W	Billy Adams	KO/TKO	5
1926	W	Jack Silver	KO/TKO	8
1926	W	Charley Pitts	KO/TKO	8

Showing 60 of 111 recorded bouts, most recent first.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Jack Thompson (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing
Most active decade	1920s — 88 of 110 dated bouts
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Young Jack Thompson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1922–1932

Record

Boxing record

79–31

122 bouts on record

Finish rate

56%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 52nd percentile

By knockout 56%
By decision 44%

The career, bout by bout

111 recorded bouts from 1922 to 1932. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1922–1932

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1926

20 bouts

Recorded bouts

111

110 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Young Jack Thompson's record?: 79–31–12 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 111 bouts individually.
How many of Young Jack Thompson's bouts have no date?: 1 of 111. 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.

Cross-references

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Thompson sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

88 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

53 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Young Jack Thompson went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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