What is Mike McCallum's record?

49–5–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 bouts individually.

How many of Mike McCallum's bouts have no date?

2 of 57. 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.

Mike McCallum — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

49–5–1

Mike McCallum has a reach of 78″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +9.87%, exceptional for cruiserweight boxing and the 99th percentile of the 80 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1981–1997 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Mike McCallum — 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 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 80 cruiserweight 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	James Toney	Decision	12
1996	L	Roy Jones Jr.	Decision	12
1996	W	Ali Saidi	Decision	10
1995	L	Fabrice Tiozzo	Decision	12
1995	W	Carl Jones	KO/TKO	7
1994	W	Jeff Harding	Decision	12
1994	W	Randall Yonker	KO/TKO	5
1993	W	Glenn Thomas	—	10
1993	W	Ramzi Hassan	Decision	10
1992	L	James Toney	—	12
1992	W	Fermin Chirino	Decision	10
1991	D	James Toney	Draw	12
1991	W	Nicky Walker	KO/TKO	5
1991	W	Carlos Cruzat	Decision	10
1991	W	Sumbu Kalambay	Decision	12
1991	W	Frank Minton	KO/TKO	4
1990	W	Michael Watson	KO/TKO	11
1990	W	Steve Collins	Decision	12
1989	W	Herol Graham	—	12
1989	W	Ralph Moncrief	KO/TKO	5
1988	W	Randy Smith	Decision	10
1988	W	David McCluskey	KO/TKO	2
1988	L	Sumbu Kalambay	Decision	12
1987	W	Donald Curry	KO/TKO	5
1987	W	Milton McCrory	KO/TKO	10
1987	W	Leroy Hester	KO/TKO	1
1986	W	Said Skouma	KO/TKO	9
1986	W	Irving Hines	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	Julian Jackson	KO/TKO	2
1986	W	Jimmy Shavers	KO/TKO	6
1985	W	David Braxton	KO/TKO	8
1985	W	Marcos Martinez	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Luigi Minchillo	KO/TKO	13
1984	W	Sean Mannion	Decision	15
1984	W	Hasim Razzaq	KO/TKO	1
1983	W	Manuel Jiminez	Decision	10
1983	W	Jose Vallejo	KO/TKO	6
1983	W	Tony Suero	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Ayub Kalule	—	7
1982	W	Carlos Betancourt	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Kevin Perry	—	10
1982	W	Reggie Ford	KO/TKO	4
1982	W	Gilberto Almonte	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Greg Young	KO/TKO	5
1981	W	Jimmy Heair	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Ed Harris	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Tirso Roque	KO/TKO	3
1981	W	Bruce Strauss	KO/TKO	3
1981	W	Freddie Creech	KO/TKO	3
1981	W	Charles Smith	KO/TKO	3
1981	W	Danny Chapman	—	4
1981	W	Shelby Wilkerson	KO/TKO	5
1981	W	Ricky Sheppard	KO/TKO	5
1981	W	Rocky Fabrizio	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Rigoberto Lopez	—	4
undated	W	David Braxton	KO/TKO	8
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Mike McCallum — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+9.87%

78″ reach on a 71″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters. Median 2.74%.

-3.3%cruiserweight boxing reach advantage9.6%

Measurements
Reach	78″ (198.1 cm)	81st pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	16th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 4: light middleweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 37 of 55 dated bouts
Country	Jamaica

Record

Boxing record

49–5

55 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 61st percentile

By knockout 73%
By decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

57 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1997. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1981–1997

Career span

17y

1981–1997

Longest unbeaten run

34

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1981

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

57

55 with a date

Closest in build

cruiserweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Mike McCallum's record?: 49–5–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 bouts individually.
How many of Mike McCallum's bouts have no date?: 2 of 57. 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

Cruiserweight boxing

The 161 cruiserweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution McCallum sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

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

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Mike McCallum went 34 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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