What is Jimmy Bivins's record?

86–26–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 104 bouts individually.

How many of Jimmy Bivins's bouts have no date?

1 of 104. 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.

Jimmy Bivins — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

86–26–1

Jimmy Bivins finished 36% of 86 wins inside the distance — the 7th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1940–1953 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Jimmy Bivins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

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 2026-07-08. 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 587 heavyweight 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
1953	W	Mike DeJohn	Decision	6
1953	W	Dan Moray	KO/TKO	3
1953	W	Chubby Wright	Decision	10
1953	W	Claude Rolfe	Decision	10
1953	L	Tommy Harrison	Decision	10
1952	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1952	L	Tommy Harrison	Decision	10
1952	W	Wes Bascom	Decision	10
1952	W	Coley Wallace	KO/TKO	9
1952	W	Aaron Wilson	KO/TKO	3
1951	W	Charley Williams	Decision	10
1951	L	Bob Baker	Decision	10
1951	L	Joe Louis	Decision	10
1951	L	Clarence Henry	Decision	10
1951	W	Willie Bean	Decision	10
1951	W	Ralph Hooker	Decision	10
1951	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	9
1951	W	Ted Lowry	Decision	10
1951	W	Young Harry Wills	KO/TKO	4
1950	L	Sid Peaks	Decision	10
1950	W	Willis Applegate	Decision	10
1949	L	Harold Johnson	Decision	10
1949	W	Clarence Henry	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	Leonard Morrow	Decision	10
1949	W	Watson Jones	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Willie Bean	Decision	10
1949	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	Rusty Payne	Decision	10
1948	L	Joey Maxim	Decision	10
1948	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10
1948	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1948	L	Archie Moore	Decision	10
1948	W	Pat Valentino	Decision	10
1948	W	Billy Thompson	KO/TKO	7
1948	W	Turkey Thompson	Decision	10
1948	W	Johnny Haynes	KO/TKO	4
1948	W	Johnny Shkor	Decision	10
1947	W	Sid Peaks	Decision	10
1947	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	8
1947	W	Bobby Zander	Decision	10
1947	W	Lee Q Murray	Decision	10
1947	W	Omelio Agramonte	KO/TKO	2
1947	W	Curtis Sheppard	Decision	10
1947	L	Ezzard Charles	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Booker Beckwith	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10
1946	W	Colion Chaney	KO/TKO	5
1946	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1946	L	Lee Q Murray	Decision	10
1946	L	Jersey Joe Walcott	Decision	10
1946	W	Yancey Henry	KO/TKO	10
1946	W	Oakland Billy Smith	Decision	10
1946	W	Johnny Haynes	KO/TKO	2
1946	W	Watson Jones	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Yancey Henry	Decision	10
1945	W	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Curtis Sheppard	Decision	10
1945	W	Russell Scott	KO/TKO	4
1945	D	Melio Bettina	Decision	10
1945	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 104 recorded bouts, most recent first.

29 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Jimmy Bivins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1940s — 82 of 103 dated bouts
Country	United States

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

winlossdraw / NC1940–1953

Record

Boxing record

86–26

112 bouts on record

Finish rate

36%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 7th percentile

By knockout 36%
By decision 64%

The career, bout by bout

104 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1953. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

14y

1940–1953

Longest unbeaten run

29

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1940

16 bouts

Recorded bouts

104

103 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Jimmy Bivins's record?: 86–26–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 104 bouts individually.
How many of Jimmy Bivins's bouts have no date?: 1 of 104. 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

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Bivins sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

82 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Jimmy Bivins went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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