Julius Francis
23–24 · 51 recorded bouts · 1993–2007
23–24–1
Julius Francis finished 52% of 23 wins inside the distance — the 21st percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Julius Francis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
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 2026-07-28. 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 587 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | L | Gary Turner | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Scott Lansdowne | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | L | Scott Gammer | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | L | Colin Kenna | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | L | Micky Steeds | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | L | Roman Greenberg | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | L | Taras Bydenko | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | L | Alexander Dimitrenko | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | L | Audley Harrison | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | L | Matt Skelton | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | L | Oleg Maskaev | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Luan Krasniqi | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | L | Volodymyr Vyrchys | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | L | Steffen Nielsen | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | L | Sinan Samil Sam | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2002 | W | Steffen Nielsen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | D | Luke Simpkin | Draw | 6 |
| 2001 | L | Danny Williams | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Mike Holden | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | L | Mike Holden | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Scott Welch | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Danny Williams | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Pelé Reid | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | L | Vitali Klitschko | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Axel Schulz | — | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Garry Delaney | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Joseph Chingangu | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Željko Mavrović | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1996 | W | James Oyebola | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1996 | W | Michael Holden | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Darren Fearn | Decision | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Damien Caesar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Michael Murray | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | L | Nikolay Kulpin | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Neil Kirkwood | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1995 | L | Scott Welch | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Steve Garber | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Keith Fletcher | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Damien Caesar | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Gary Charlton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Conroy Nelson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | L | John Ruiz | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Manny Burgo | Decision | 4 |
| 1993 | W | John Keeton | Decision | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Don Sargent | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Andre Tisdale | — | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Joey Paladino | — | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Graham Arnold | — | 5 |
| undated | ? | TKO | — | 2007 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Julius Francis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 28 of 49 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Julius Francis, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
23–24
48 bouts on record
Finish rate
52%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 21st percentile
The career, bout by bout
51 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1993–2007
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
51
49 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Julius Francis's record?
- 23–24–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 51 bouts individually.
- How many of Julius Francis's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 51. 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Francis sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing28 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJulius Francis went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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