What is Sam McVey's record?

78–18–13 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 bouts individually.

How many of Sam McVey's bouts have no date?

1 of 85. 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.

Sam McVey — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

78–18–13

Sam McVey has a reach of 75″ against a height of 70.5″ — a reach advantage of +6.37%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 77th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1902–1921 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Sam McVey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

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 2026-07-08. 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 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

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
1921	D	Jeff Clark	Draw	10
1921	N	Jack Thompson	—	6
1920	N	Harry Wills	—	6
1920	W	Jack Ward	KO/TKO	2
1920	L	Sam Langford	—	10
1920	L	Pinky Lewis	Decision	10
1918	W	Clem Johnson	KO/TKO	4
1918	D	Jack Livingstone	Decision	10
1918	L	Harry Wills	Decision	20
1917	W	Battling Jim Johnson	Decision	25
1917	W	Jeff Clark	KO/TKO	15
1917	W	Jim Barry	KO/TKO	7
1917	W	Jim Briggs	KO/TKO	2
1917	W	Fitz Brathwaite	KO/TKO	1
1917	W	Jack Livingstone	KO/TKO	5
1916	W	Bob Devere	Decision	10
1916	D	Sam Langford	Decision	20
1916	L	Jack Thompson	Decision	8
1915	D	Sam Langford	Draw	10
1915	W	Jeff Clark	Decision	10
1915	L	Harry Wills	Decision	12
1915	W	Sandy Ferguson	KO/TKO	8
1915	W	Battling Jim Johnson	—	10
1915	D	Joe Jennette	Decision	12
1914	W	Harry Wills	Decision	20
1914	W	Battling Jim Johnson	—	10
1914	W	Arthur Pelkey	KO/TKO	4
1913	W	Colin Bell	KO/TKO	2
1913	W	Professor Stevenson	KO/TKO	5
1913	D	Sam Langford	Decision	20
1912	L	Sam Langford	KO/TKO	13
1912	W	Jim Barry	Decision	20
1911	W	Sam Langford	Decision	20
1911	W	Jack Lester	KO/TKO	8
1911	W	Bill Lang	KO/TKO	2
1911	W	Alf Langford	KO/TKO	9
1911	W	George Rodel	KO/TKO	1
1911	W	Andrew Dixon	KO/TKO	4
1911	W	Charley Harris	KO/TKO	3
1911	W	Seaman Fred Parsons	KO/TKO	1
1910	W	Battling Jim Johnson	KO/TKO	21
1910	W	Sergeant Sunshine	KO/TKO	1
1910	W	Peter Rice	KO/TKO	3
1910	W	Joe Grim	KO/TKO	13
1910	W	Jim Stewart	KO/TKO	6
1910	W	Arthur Bennett	KO/TKO	4
1910	W	Herbert Sinnott	KO/TKO	5
1910	W	Al Kubiak	KO/TKO	10
1910	W	Fred Drummond	KO/TKO	5
1909	D	Joe Jennette	Decision	30
1909	W	Fred Drummond	KO/TKO	7
1909	W	Jim Barry	DQ	15
1909	W	Bill Harris	KO/TKO	5
1909	W	'Cyclone' Billy Warren	KO/TKO	2
1909	W	Herbert Sinnott	KO/TKO	5
1909	W	Bill Rickard	KO/TKO	1
1908	D	Fred Drummond	Decision	—
1908	W	Camerlings	KO/TKO	1
1908	W	Herbert Sinnott	KO/TKO	5
1908	W	Guionnet	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 85 recorded bouts, most recent first.

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Sam McVey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.37%

75″ reach on a 70.5″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	75″ (190.5 cm)	24th pct
Height	70.5″ (179.1 cm)	8th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1910s — 43 of 84 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

78–18

112 bouts on record

Finish rate

77%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 70th percentile

By knockout 77%
By decision 23%

The career, bout by bout

85 recorded bouts from 1902 to 1921. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1902–1921

Career span

20y

1902–1921

Longest unbeaten run

32

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1908

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

85

84 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Sam McVey's record?: 78–18–13 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 bouts individually.
How many of Sam McVey's bouts have no date?: 1 of 85. 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution McVey sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing

43 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

48 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Sam McVey went 32 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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