Randolph 'Randy' Turpin
66–8 · 74 recorded bouts · 1946–1963
66–8–1
Randolph 'Randy' Turpin finished 68% of 66 wins inside the distance — the 71st percentile for light heavyweight boxing, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Randolph Turpin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
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 2026-07-12. 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 208 light heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | W | Charles Seguna | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1963 | W | Eddie Marcano | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1958 | L | Yolande Pompey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1958 | W | Redvers Sangoe | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1958 | W | Eddie Wright | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1958 | W | Wim Snoek | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Uwe Janssen | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1957 | W | Sergio Burchi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1957 | W | Ahmed Boulgroune | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1957 | W | Arthur Howard | Decision | 15 |
| 1956 | W | Alex Buxton | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1956 | L | Hans Stretz | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Jacques Bro | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1956 | W | Alessandro D'Ottavio | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1955 | L | Gordon Wallace | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1955 | W | Polly Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Alex Buxton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1955 | W | Jose Gonzalez | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1955 | W | Ray Schmit | DQ | 8 |
| 1954 | L | Tiberio Mitri | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1954 | W | Olle Bengtsson | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Bobo Olson | — | 15 |
| 1953 | W | Charles Humez | Decision | 15 |
| 1953 | W | Walter Cartier | DQ | 2 |
| 1953 | W | Doug Miller | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Victor d'Haes | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1952 | W | George Angelo | Decision | 15 |
| 1952 | W | Don Cockell | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1952 | W | Jacques Hairabedian | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1952 | W | Alex Buxton | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1951 | L | Sugar Ray Robinson | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Jackie Keough | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1951 | W | Jan de Bruin | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1951 | W | Billy Brown | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1951 | W | Jean Stock | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1951 | W | Luc van Dam | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | [|Eduardo López]] | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1950 | W | Tommy Yarosz | DQ | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Jose Alamo Medina | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1950 | W | Albert Finch | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1950 | W | Eli Elandon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1950 | W | Gustave Degouve | Decision | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Richard Armah | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1950 | W | Gilbert Stock | Decision | 8 |
| 1949 | W | Pete Mead | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1949 | W | Roy Wouters | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1949 | W | Jean Wanes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1949 | W | Cyrille Delannoit | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1949 | W | William Poli | — | 4 |
| 1949 | W | Mickey Laurent | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1949 | W | Doug Miller | Decision | 8 |
| 1949 | W | Jackie Jones | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1948 | L | Jean Stock | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1948 | W | Alby Hollister | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | L | Albert Finch | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Vince Hawkins | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Gerry McCready | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | W | Freddie Price | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1947 | D | Mark Hart | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Jimmy Ingle | KO/TKO | 3 |
Showing 60 of 74 recorded bouts, most recent first.
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Randolph Turpin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 42 of 74 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Randolph 'Randy' Turpin, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
66–8
75 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 71st percentile
The career, bout by bout
74 recorded bouts from 1946 to 1963. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1946–1963
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1947
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
74
74 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Randolph 'Randy' Turpin's record?
- 66–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 74 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.
Where this record leads
The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Turpin sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing42 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRandolph 'Randy' Turpin went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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