Mysterious Billy Smith
37–25 · 85 recorded bouts · 1890–1915
37–25–27
Mysterious Billy Smith finished 65% of 37 wins inside the distance — the 66th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Mysterious Billy Smith — 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 292 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | L | Jack Root | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1911 | L | Jim Cameron | DQ | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Al Neill | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | L | Barbados Joe Walcott | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Tommy Ryan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Al Neill | DQ | 10 |
| 1901 | D | Al Neill | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | Tom Tracey | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | George Byers | Decision | 15 |
| 1901 | L | Young Peter Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | D | Tim Hurley | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | Owen Ziegler | Decision | 10 |
| 1900 | N | Jack Mahoney | — | 11 |
| 1900 | D | Professor Mike Donovan | Decision | 20 |
| 1900 | L | Jim Judge | DQ | 11 |
| 1900 | L | Barbados Joe Walcott | DQ | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Young Peter Jackson | KO/TKO | 18 |
| 1900 | L | Jimmy Handler | Decision | 25 |
| 1900 | L | Matty Matthews | KO/TKO | 19 |
| 1900 | W | Frank McConnell | DQ | 21 |
| 1900 | L | Rube Ferns | DQ | 21 |
| 1899 | W | Charlie McKeever | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | D | Billy Stift | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Bob Douglass | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Andy Walsh | Decision | 25 |
| 1899 | W | Young Bailey | — | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Jack Mahoney | Draw | 6 |
| 1899 | W | George Lavigne | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1899 | W | Australian Billy Edwards | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1898 | W | Barbados Joe Walcott | Decision | 20 |
| 1898 | D | Tommy West | Decision | 20 |
| 1898 | W | Charlie McKeever | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | Jim Judge | KO/TKO | 20 |
| 1898 | D | Andy Walsh | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | Matty Matthews | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | George "Young Corbett" Green | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | L | Billy Stift | DQ | 5 |
| 1898 | D | Charley Johnson | Decision | 15 |
| 1898 | L | Tim Callahan | — | 6 |
| 1898 | D | Abe Ullman | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Johnny Gorman | DQ | 5 |
| 1897 | W | Billy Mulligan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | L | Jack Bonner | — | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Jack Howard | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1897 | W | Mike Dempsey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | D | Jack Powers | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Abe Ullman | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | L | George "Young Corbett" Green | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1897 | D | Con Doyle | Decision | 12 |
| 1896 | L | Tommy Ryan | DQ | 9 |
| 1896 | L | Australian Jim Ryan | DQ | 7 |
| 1896 | ? | Billy Gallagher | — | 1 |
| 1896 | L | Charles Kid McCoy | DQ | 6 |
| 1896 | W | Bill Husbands | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1896 | W | Trooper Ham | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Jack Bryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Arthur Morris | DQ | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Pat Kehoe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1895 | ? | Tom Cawley | — | 6 |
| 1895 | D | Tommy Ryan | Decision | 18 |
Showing 60 of 85 recorded bouts, most recent first.
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mysterious Billy Smith — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 64 of 85 dated bouts | |
| Country | Canada |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Mysterious Billy Smith, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
37–25
94 bouts on record
Finish rate
65%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
85 recorded bouts from 1890 to 1915. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
26y
1890–1915
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1898
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
85
85 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mysterious Billy Smith's record?
- 37–25–27 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 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.
