Mike Weaver
78″ reach · +6.85% reach advantage · 81st percentile
41–18–1
Mike Weaver has a reach of 78″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +6.85%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 81st percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Mike Weaver (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
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 2026-07-29. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | L | Melvin Foster | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1996 | W | Derrick Ryals | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | George O'Mara | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Bill Corrigan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Ladislao Mijangos | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Bert Cooper | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Gans | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1991 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Dion Burgess | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1990 | L | James Smith | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Philipp Brown | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Lionel Washington | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Bobby Crabtree | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | L | Johnny DuPlooy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Johnny DuPlooy | — | 6 |
| 1987 | W | James Pritchard | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1987 | W | David Jaco | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | L | Donovan Ruddock | — | 10 |
| 1986 | L | James Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Carl Williams | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | L | Pinklon Thomas | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1984 | W | Tony Anthony | — | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Billy Joe Thomas | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1983 | W | Stan Ward | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1983 | D | Michael Dokes | Draw | 15 |
| 1982 | L | Michael Dokes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | James Tillis | Decision | 15 |
| 1980 | W | Gerrie Coetzee | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1980 | W | John Tate | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1979 | W | Scott LeDoux | Decision | 12 |
| 1979 | W | Harry Terrell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1979 | W | Oliver Philipps | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Stan Ward | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1978 | W | Abdul Khan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1978 | W | Bernardo Mercado | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1978 | W | Mike Creel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1978 | L | Leroy Jones | Decision | 12 |
| 1978 | L | Stan Ward | Decision | 12 |
| 1977 | W | Pedro Lovell | Decision | 10 |
| 1977 | W | Dave Martinez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Bill Sharkey | Decision | 10 |
| 1977 | W | Dwain Bonds | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1976 | W | Fonomanu Young Sekona | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Jody Ballard | — | 10 |
| 1975 | W | Tony Doyle | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1974 | W | Mani Vaka | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | L | Duane Bobick | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1974 | W | Orville Qualls | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1974 | L | Rodney Bobick | — | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Ellis McKinley | Decision | 6 |
| 1973 | L | Larry Frazier | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Bob Swoopes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1973 | W | Tony Pulu | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Lyn Martin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1973 | L | Billy Ryan | — | 2 |
| 1973 | W | Carlos Lopez | Decision | 5 |
| 1972 | L | Howard Smith | — | 5 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mike Weaver (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.85%
78″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 53rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 29 of 59 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
41–18
60 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 51st percentile
The career, bout by bout
60 recorded bouts from 1972 to 2000. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
29y
1972–2000
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1973
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
60
59 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Owen LeFranc Beck+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Jack Gardner+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- J. B. Williamson+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Bruce Seldon+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Gregorio Peralta+6.94% 77″ reach · 82nd pct
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi+6.69% 71″ reach · 80th pct
- Ross Puritty+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- Charles Shufford+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mike Weaver's record?
- 41–18–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 bouts individually.
- How many of Mike Weaver's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 60. 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 Weaver sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing29 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Lennox Lewis vs Mike WeaverA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1991 Longest unbeaten runsMike Weaver went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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