What is Michael Dokes's record?

53–6–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 63 bouts individually.

How many of Michael Dokes's bouts have no date?

2 of 63. 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.

Michael Dokes — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

53–6–2

Michael Dokes has a reach of 78″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +3.99%, average for heavyweight boxing and the 49th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1976–1997 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Michael Dokes — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

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 2026-08-02. 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
1997	L	Paul Phillips	KO/TKO	2
1997	L	Louis Monaco	Decision	10
1996	W	Doug Davis	Decision	10
1996	W	Dave Fiddler	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Dave Slaughter	KO/TKO	3
1993	L	Riddick Bowe	KO/TKO	1
1992	W	Barry Forbes	Decision	10
1992	W	Jose Ribalta	Decision	10
1992	W	Jesse Ferguson	Decision	10
1992	W	Danny Sutton	KO/TKO	3
1992	W	Percell Davis	KO/TKO	5
1992	W	Danny Wofford	KO/TKO	9
1992	W	Danny Stonewalker	KO/TKO	6
1991	W	Tyrone Armstrong	KO/TKO	4
1991	W	John Morton	Decision	8
1990	L	Donovan Ruddock	KO/TKO	4
1990	W	Jorge Alfredo Dascola	KO/TKO	11
1989	W	Lionel Washington	KO/TKO	8
1989	W	Wesley Watson	KO/TKO	3
1989	W	Bobby Crabtree	KO/TKO	1
1989	L	Evander Holyfield	KO/TKO	10
1988	W	Rocky Sekorski	Decision	12
1988	W	Curtis Isaac	KO/TKO	4
1988	W	Manoel De Almeida	KO/TKO	4
1988	W	Andrew Stokes	KO/TKO	1
1988	W	James Pritchard	KO/TKO	7
1988	W	Eddie Richardson	KO/TKO	10
1988	W	Ken Lakusta	KO/TKO	7
1987	W	Kevin Porter	KO/TKO	5
1985	W	Randall Cobb	—	4
1985	W	Young Louis	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Mike Jameson	Decision	10
1983	L	Gerrie Coetzee	KO/TKO	10
1983	D	Mike Weaver	Draw	15
1982	W	Mike Weaver	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Tommy Franco Thomas	KO/TKO	5
1982	W	Lynn Ball	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	George Chaplin	Decision	10
1981	W	Harry Terrell	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	John L. Gardner	KO/TKO	4
1981	W	Randall Cobb	—	10
1980	W	Tom Fischer	KO/TKO	7
1980	W	Ossie Ocasio	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	Lucien Rodriguez	Decision	10
1980	W	Earl Tripp	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Jimmy Young	Decision	10
1979	W	Willie McIntyre	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Greg Sorrentino	KO/TKO	3
1979	W	Wendell Bailey	—	10
1978	W	Ira Martin	KO/TKO	8
1978	W	Eugene Green	Decision	8
1978	W	Terry Mims	Decision	8
1978	W	Dan Johnson	Decision	6
1978	W	Abdul Khan	—	8
1978	W	George Holden	—	2
1977	W	Ed Turner	Decision	6
1977	W	Charlie Jordan	KO/TKO	3
1977	W	Dave Wilson	—	4
1977	W	Sergio Rodriguez	—	2
1977	?	Muhammad Ali	—	3

Showing 60 of 63 recorded bouts, most recent first.

13 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Michael Dokes — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+3.99%

78″ reach on a 75″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	78″ (198.1 cm)	53rd pct
Height	75″ (190.5 cm)	57th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1980s — 28 of 61 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

53–6

61 bouts on record

Finish rate

62%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 38th percentile

By knockout 62%
By decision 38%

The career, bout by bout

63 recorded bouts from 1976 to 1997. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1976–1997

Career span

22y

1976–1997

Longest unbeaten run

26

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1988

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

63

61 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 Michael Dokes's record?: 53–6–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 63 bouts individually.
How many of Michael Dokes's bouts have no date?: 2 of 63. 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 Dokes sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

28 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Michael Dokes vs Riddick Bowe

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1993 Longest unbeaten runs

Michael Dokes went 26 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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