Lee Selby
28–4 · 34 recorded bouts · 2008–2022
28–4
Lee Selby finished 32% of 28 wins inside the distance — the 19th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Lee Selby — 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 258 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Gustavo Daniel Lemos | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2020 | L | George Kambosos Jr. | Decision | 12 |
| 2019 | W | Ricky Burns | — | 12 |
| 2019 | W | Omar Douglas | Decision | 12 |
| 2018 | L | Josh Warrington | — | 12 |
| 2017 | W | Eduardo Ramirez | Decision | 12 |
| 2017 | W | Jonathan Victor Barros | Decision | 12 |
| 2017 | W | Andoni Gago | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2016 | W | Eric Hunter | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Fernando Montiel | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Evgeny Gradovich | — | 8 |
| 2014 | W | Joel Brunker | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2014 | W | Romulo Koasicha | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Rendall Munroe | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2013 | W | Ryan Walsh | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Viorel Simion | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Corey McConnell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Martin Lindsay | — | 12 |
| 2012 | W | Patrick Okine | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2011 | W | John Simpson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Stephen Smith | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2011 | W | James Ancliff | — | 6 |
| 2011 | W | Youssef Al Hamidi | Decision | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Dai Davies | — | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Ben Jones | Decision | 6 |
| 2009 | W | Jimmy Briggs | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Ian Bailey | Decision | 6 |
| 2009 | L | Samir Mouneimne | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Johnny Greaves | Decision | 6 |
| 2009 | W | Craig Johnson | Decision | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Peter Buckley | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Sid Razak | — | 6 |
| undated | W | James Ancliff | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Lee Selby — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 23 of 32 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Lee Selby, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
28–4
32 bouts on record
Finish rate
32%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
34 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2008–2022
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
34
32 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Lee Selby's record?
- 28–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 bouts individually.
- How many of Lee Selby's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 34. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Selby sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
730 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsLee Selby went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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