What is Murray Sutherland's record?

47–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 bouts individually.

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.

Murray Sutherland — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

47–14–1

Murray Sutherland has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, average for light heavyweight boxing and the 49th percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1977–1986

SOURCE·Murray Sutherland — 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 98 light 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
1986	L	Lindell Holmes	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Mike Hyman	KO/TKO	2
1985	L	Bobby Czyz	Decision	10
1985	W	Lloyd Richardson	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Robert Pew	KO/TKO	2
1985	W	Lenny Edwards	KO/TKO	3
1984	W	Wilford Scypion	KO/TKO	12
1984	W	Joe Byrd Jr.	KO/TKO	3
1984	L	Park Chong-pal	KO/TKO	11
1984	W	Ernie Singletary	Decision	15
1984	W	Joe Brewer	KO/TKO	2
1983	L	James Kinchen	Decision	10
1983	W	Alex Ramos	Decision	10
1983	L	Thomas Hearns	Decision	10
1983	W	Jean-Marie Emebe	KO/TKO	9
1983	W	Johnny Heard	KO/TKO	5
1983	D	Robbie Sims	Decision	10
1982	L	J. B. Williamson	Decision	10
1982	W	Mario Maldonado	Decision	10
1982	W	Fred Reed	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Tony Mundine	Decision	10
1982	W	Ron Ayers	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Gonzalo Montes	KO/TKO	7
1982	L	Eddie Davis	KO/TKO	6
1982	L	Michael Spinks	KO/TKO	8
1982	W	Chris Wells	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Henry Sims	KO/TKO	9
1981	W	Darnell Hayes	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	James Williams	Decision	12
1981	L	Matthew Saad Muhammad	KO/TKO	9
1981	W	Fred Brown	KO/TKO	6
1981	W	Rocky Mack	KO/TKO	3
1980	W	John Beverage	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	Pablo Paul Ramos	Decision	12
1980	W	Phil Wade	KO/TKO	3
1980	W	Joey Butcher	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	John Cox	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Stanley Scott	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Benny Mitchell	KO/TKO	3
1980	W	Johnny Townsend	KO/TKO	6
1980	W	Greg Payne	KO/TKO	6
1980	L	Michael Spinks	Decision	10
1980	W	Eddie Smith	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Don Addison	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Julius Noble	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Al Bell	KO/TKO	2
1980	W	Jose Gutierrez	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Al Bolden	Decision	10
1979	W	Karl Zurheide	KO/TKO	2
1979	L	Richie Kates	Decision	10
1979	W	Harold Riggins	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Rick Jester	KO/TKO	1
1978	W	Bill Hollis	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	Gary Alexander	Decision	8
1978	W	Zach Page	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	Harold Riggins	KO/TKO	6
1978	W	Ivy Cory	KO/TKO	2
1978	L	Dwight Davison	KO/TKO	4
1978	W	Gus Turner	KO/TKO	4
1978	W	Tony Curovic	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 62 recorded bouts, most recent first.

10 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.79%

74″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	56th pct
Height	72″ (182.9 cm)	47th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 47 of 62 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

47–14

62 bouts on record

Finish rate

83%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 94th percentile

By knockout 83%
By decision 17%

The career, bout by bout

62 recorded bouts from 1977 to 1986. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1977–1986

Career span

10y

1977–1986

Longest unbeaten run

11

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1980

15 bouts

Recorded bouts

62

62 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Murray Sutherland's record?: 47–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 bouts individually.
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

Light heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sutherland sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

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

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Murray Sutherland went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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