John McDermott
76″ reach · +1.31% reach advantage · 20th percentile
28–8
John McDermott has a reach of 76″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +1.31%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 20th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·John McDermott (heavyweight 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | W | Matt Skelton | — | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Pavels Dolgovs | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2012 | L | David Price | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Larry Olubamiwo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Tyson Fury | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2009 | L | Tyson Fury | Decision | 10 |
| 2009 | L | Danny Williams | — | 12 |
| 2008 | L | Danny Williams | — | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Pelé Reid | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Daniil Peretyatko | Decision | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Scott Gammer | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Luke Simpkin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Paul King | Decision | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Vitali Shkraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Matt Skelton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Alvin Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Mark Krence | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Suren Kalachyan | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2004 | W | James Zikic | — | 4 |
| 2003 | L | Nikolay Popov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Kostyantyn Pryziuk | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Derek McCafferty | Decision | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Jason Brewster | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Mindaugas Kulikauskas | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Oleksandr Mileiko | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Martin Roodtman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Tony Booth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Gordon Minorts | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Gary Williams | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Luke Simpkin | Decision | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Mal Rice | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Alexey Osokin | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Eamon Glennon | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Geoff Hunter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Gary Williams | — | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Alvin Miller | — | 1 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·John McDermott (heavyweight boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.31%
76″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 32nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 31 of 36 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
28–8
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 43rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2000–2013
Longest unbeaten run
14
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
36 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Buster Mathis+1.31% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Biko Botowamungu+1.31% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Ron Lyle+1.31% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Chris Arreola+1.31% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Elieser Castillo+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Scott Welch+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Sefer Seferi+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Adam Balski+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is John McDermott's record?
- 28–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 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 McDermott sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing31 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS John McDermott vs Tyson FuryA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2009 Longest unbeaten runsJohn McDermott went 14 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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