James J. Corbett
73″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
24–4–3
James J. Corbett has a reach of 73″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·James J. Corbett — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
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 2026-07-15. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | L | James J. Jeffries | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Kid McCoy | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1900 | L | James J. Jeffries | KO/TKO | 23 |
| 1898 | L | Tom Sharkey | DQ | 9 |
| 1897 | L | Bob Fitzsimmons | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1896 | D | Tom Sharkey | Decision | 4 |
| 1894 | W | Charley Mitchell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1892 | W | John L. Sullivan | KO/TKO | 21 |
| 1892 | W | John McCann | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1892 | ? | Joe Lannon | Decision | 4 |
| 1891 | W | Ed Kinney | Decision | 4 |
| 1891 | ? | Peter Jackson | — | 61 |
| 1890 | W | Dominick McCaffrey | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1890 | W | Jake Kilrain | Decision | 6 |
| 1889 | D | Dave Campbell | Decision | 10 |
| 1889 | W | Australian Billy Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 1889 | W | George Atkinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1889 | W | Joe Choynski | Decision | 4 |
| 1888 | W | William Miller | Decision | 6 |
| 1888 | D | Frank Glover | Decision | 3 |
| 1887 | W | Bill Hayes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1887 | D | Jack Burke | Decision | 3 |
| 1887 | W | Martin Costello | Decision | 3 |
| 1887 | W | James C. Dailey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1886 | W | Duncan McDonald | Decision | 6 |
| 1886 | W | Frank Smith | — | 3 |
| 1885 | W | William T. Welch | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1885 | W | Dave Eisemann | — | 2 |
| 1885 | W | Professor John Donaldson | Decision | 4 |
| 1884 | W | Billy Keneally | — | 4 |
| 1884 | W | Joe Choynski | — | 1 |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·James J. Corbett — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
73″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 12th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1880s — 17 of 31 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
24–4
35 bouts on record
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 16th percentile
The career, bout by bout
31 recorded bouts from 1884 to 1903. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1884–1903
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1887
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
31
31 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is James J. Corbett's record?
- 24–4–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 31 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 Corbett sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS James J. Corbett vs Peter JacksonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1891 Longest unbeaten runsJames J. Corbett went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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