What is Johnny Nelson's record?

45–12–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 bouts individually.

How many of Johnny Nelson's bouts have no date?

2 of 60. 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.

Johnny Nelson — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

45–12–2

Johnny Nelson has a reach of 81″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +9.41%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 92nd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1986–2005 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Johnny Nelson — 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 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 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

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
2005	W	Vincenzo Cantatore	Decision	12
2004	W	Rüdiger May	KO/TKO	7
2003	W	Alexander Petkovic	—	12
2002	D	Guillermo Jones	Decision	12
2002	W	Ezra Sellers	KO/TKO	8
2001	W	Alexander Vasiliev	Decision	12
2001	W	Marcelo Domínguez	Decision	12
2001	W	George Arias	Decision	12
2000	W	Adam Watt	KO/TKO	5
2000	W	Pietro Aurino	KO/TKO	7
1999	W	Christophe Girard	KO/TKO	4
1999	W	Sione Asipeli	Decision	12
1999	W	Willard Lewis	KO/TKO	4
1999	W	Bruce Scott	Decision	12
1999	W	Carl Thompson	KO/TKO	5
1998	W	Peter Oboh	—	6
1997	W	Dirk Wallyn	KO/TKO	1
1997	W	Michael Murray	Decision	4
1997	W	Patrice Aouissi	KO/TKO	7
1996	W	Dennis Andries	KO/TKO	7
1996	W	Tony Booth	KO/TKO	2
1995	L	Adílson Rodrigues	Decision	12
1994	W	Nikolay Kulpin	—	12
1994	L	Henry Akinwande	Decision	10
1993	W	Jimmy Thunder	Decision	12
1993	L	Franco Wanyama	—	10
1993	W	Tom Collins	KO/TKO	1
1993	W	Dave Russell	KO/TKO	11
1992	L	Corrie Sanders	Decision	10
1992	L	Norbert Ekassi	KO/TKO	3
1992	L	James Warring	—	12
1991	W	Yves Monsieur	KO/TKO	8
1990	W	Markus Bott	KO/TKO	12
1990	W	Andre Smith	Decision	8
1990	W	Arthur Weathers	KO/TKO	2
1990	W	Lou Gent	KO/TKO	4
1990	W	Dino Homsey	KO/TKO	7
1990	D	Carlos de León	Draw	12
1989	W	Ian Bulloch	KO/TKO	2
1989	W	Andy Straughn	KO/TKO	8
1989	W	Steve Mormino	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Danny Lawford	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Andrew Gerrard	Decision	8
1988	W	Lennie Howard	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Crawford Ashley	Decision	8
1988	W	Kenny Jones	KO/TKO	1
1988	W	Cordwell Hylton	—	1
1988	L	Dennis Bailey	Decision	8
1987	W	Jon McBean	KO/TKO	6
1987	W	Byron Pullen	KO/TKO	3
1987	L	Brian Schumacher	Decision	8
1987	W	Sean Daly	—	1
1987	W	Doug Young	Decision	6
1987	W	George Carmen	Decision	6
1986	W	Chris Little	Decision	6
1986	L	Magne Havnaa	Decision	4
1986	L	Tommy Taylor	Decision	6
1986	L	Peter Brown	—	6
undated	W	Danny Lawford	KO/TKO	2
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

20 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Johnny Nelson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+9.41%

81″ reach on a 74″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	81″ (205.7 cm)	77th pct
Height	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1990s — 28 of 58 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

45–12

59 bouts on record

Finish rate

64%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 44th percentile

By knockout 64%
By decision 36%

The career, bout by bout

60 recorded bouts from 1986 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1986–2005

Career span

20y

1986–2005

Longest unbeaten run

20

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1988

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

60

58 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Johnny Nelson's record?: 45–12–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 bouts individually.
How many of Johnny Nelson's bouts have no date?: 2 of 60. 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 Nelson sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing

28 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Johnny Nelson went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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