Paul Williams
78″ reach · +5.37% reach advantage · 80th percentile
41–2
Paul Williams has a reach of 78″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +5.37%, long for middleweight boxing and the 80th percentile of the 123 compared here.
SOURCE·Paul Williams (boxer) — 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 123 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | W | Nobuhiro Ishida | Decision | 12 |
| 2011 | W | Erislandy Lara | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | L | Sergio Martínez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Kermit Cintrón | — | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Sergio Martínez | — | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Winky Wright | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Verno Phillips | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Andy Kolle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Carlos Quintana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Antonio Margarito | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Santos Pakau | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Sharmba Mitchell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2006 | W | Walter Matthysse | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Sergio Rios | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Alfonso Sanchez | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2005 | W | Marteze Logan | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Terrance Cauthen | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Sammy Sparkman | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Javier Hector Valadez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Luis Hernandez | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Rodolfo Gomez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Arturo Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Benjie Marquez | — | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Earl Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Joshua Onyango | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Gary Grant | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Laatekwei Hammond | Decision | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Agustin Silva | — | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Mahan Washington | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Willie McDonald | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Robert Muhammad | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Rhon Roberts | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Miguel Aquila | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Henry Hawkins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Miguel Aquila | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Rohan Nanton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Eleser Ortega | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | James Young | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Adrian McNeil | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Richard Burns | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Matt Hill | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Jeremy Mickelson | — | 4 |
| undated | W | style="text-a | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paul Williams (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.37%
78″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 98th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 96th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 38 of 42 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
41–2
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
66%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
44 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2000–2012
Longest unbeaten run
38
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
44
42 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Keith Holmes+5.37% 78″ reach · 80th pct
- Rubin Carter+5.72% 72″ reach · 81st pct
- Sechew Powell+5.74% 74″ reach · 82nd pct
- Willie Monroe Jr.+5.74% 74″ reach · 82nd pct
- Raúl Márquez+5.74% 74″ reach · 82nd pct
- Jason Matthews+5.74% 74″ reach · 82nd pct
- Harold Johnson+5.74% 74″ reach · 82nd pct
- Robert Allen+5.76% 73″ reach · 86th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paul Williams's record?
- 41–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 44 bouts individually.
- How many of Paul Williams's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 44. 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 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Williams sits inside.
269 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing38 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsPaul Williams went 38 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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