Michael Watson
25–4 · 30 recorded bouts · 1984–1991
25–4–1
Michael Watson finished 84% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 93rd percentile for super middleweight boxing, where the median is 61%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Michael Watson — 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 161 super middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | L | Chris Eubank | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Anthony Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Craig Trotter | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Errol Christie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | L | Mike McCallum | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1989 | W | Nigel Benn | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1989 | W | Franklin Owens | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Jimmy Shavers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | W | Reggie Miller | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1988 | D | Israel Cole | Draw | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Ricky Stackhouse | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1988 | W | Joe McKnight | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1988 | W | Kenneth Styles | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1988 | W | Don Lee | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1987 | W | Sam Houston | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Franky Moro | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Cliff Gilpin | Decision | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Ralph Smiley | Decision | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Ian Chantler | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1986 | W | Alan Baptiste | Decision | 8 |
| 1986 | W | Simon Collins | — | 1 |
| 1986 | L | James Cook | Decision | 8 |
| 1986 | W | Carlton Warren | — | 6 |
| 1986 | W | Karl Barwise | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Martin McEwan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1985 | W | Gary Tomlinson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Dennis Sheehan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Johnny Elliott | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1984 | W | Winston Wray | — | 4 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Michael Watson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Super Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, super middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 24 of 29 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Michael Watson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
25–4
30 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — super middleweight boxing median 61%, 93rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
30 recorded bouts from 1984 to 1991. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
8y
1984–1991
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1988
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
30
29 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Michael Watson's record?
- 25–4–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 30 bouts individually.
- How many of Michael Watson's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 30. 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 164 super middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Watson sits inside.
164 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing24 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMichael Watson went 16 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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