Michael Sprott
42–29 · 71 recorded bouts · 1996–2018
42–29
Michael Sprott finished 40% of 42 wins inside the distance — the 9th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Michael Sprott — 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | L | Lukasz Rozanski | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | L | Ali Eren Demirezen | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2016 | L | Marcin Siwy | Decision | 6 |
| 2016 | L | Christian Hammer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Adrian Granat | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Carlos Takam | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2014 | L | Anthony Joshua | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Kali Meehan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Anthony Nansen | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Martin Rogan | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Jason Gavern | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Brian Minto | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Damian Wills | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Erkan Teper | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Robert Helenius | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Edmund Gerber | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | L | Kubrat Pulev | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2011 | L | Alexander Dimitrenko | Decision | 12 |
| 2011 | L | Tye Fields | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Serdar Uysal | Decision | 4 |
| 2010 | W | Matt Skelton | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Shane McPhilbin | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Danny Hughes | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Audley Harrison | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Werner Kreiskott | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Lamon Brewster | Decision | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Zack Page | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | L | Taras Bydenko | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | L | Matt Skelton | — | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Audley Harrison | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Derek McCafferty | Decision | 8 |
| 2006 | L | Alexander Ustinov | Decision | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Rene Dettweiler | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | L | Ruslan Chagaev | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2006 | W | Antoine Palatis | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | L | Volodymyr Vyrchys | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | L | Paolo Vidoz | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Cengiz Koc | — | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Robert Sulgan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Matt Skelton | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Danny Williams | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | L | Danny Williams | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2003 | W | Colin Kenna | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Petr Horacek | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Mark Potter | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Mike Holden | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Tamas Feheri | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Garing Lane | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Pele Reid | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2002 | L | Danny Williams | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2001 | W | Jermell Barnes | Decision | 8 |
| 2001 | L | Corrie Sanders | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Timo Hoffmann | — | 8 |
| 2000 | L | Wayne Llewellyn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Tony Booth | Decision | 6 |
| 1999 | W | Chris Woollas | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Gary Williams | Decision | 6 |
| 1998 | L | Harry Senior | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Michael Murray | Decision | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Ray Kane | — | 1 |
Showing 60 of 71 recorded bouts, most recent first.
30 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Michael Sprott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 30 of 69 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Michael Sprott, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
42–29
71 bouts on record
Finish rate
40%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 9th percentile
The career, bout by bout
71 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
1996–2018
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
71
69 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Michael Sprott's record?
- 42–29 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 71 bouts individually.
- How many of Michael Sprott's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 71. 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 Sprott sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing30 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMichael Sprott went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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