What is Simpiwe Vetyeka's record?

30–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 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.

Simpiwe Vetyeka — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

30–4

Simpiwe Vetyeka has a reach of 67.3″ against a height of 66.9″ — a reach advantage of +0.59%, unusually short for lightweight boxing and the 24th percentile of the 120 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2002–2018

SOURCE·Simpiwe Vetyeka — 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 120 lightweight 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
2018	W	Thompson Mokwana	KO/TKO	8
2017	L	Lerato Dlamini	Decision	10
2016	W	Tsuyoshi Tameda	Decision	10
2015	W	Rodolfo Puente	KO/TKO	4
2014	W	Arturo Santos Reyes	Decision	12
2014	L	Nonito Donaire	—	5
2013	W	Chris John	KO/TKO	6
2013	W	Daud Yordan	KO/TKO	12
2012	W	Sibusiso Khumalo	KO/TKO	4
2012	L	Klaas Mboyane	Decision	8
2011	W	Giovanni Caro	Decision	12
2011	W	Roberto Carlos Leyva	KO/TKO	3
2009	W	Eric Barcelona	Decision	12
2008	W	Nkosinathi Tshinavhe	KO/TKO	8
2008	W	Nkqubela Gwazela	Decision	12
2007	W	Lubabalo Msuthu	KO/TKO	8
2007	W	Ebenezer Tumane	KO/TKO	2
2007	L	Hozumi Hasegawa	Decision	12
2006	W	Sakhumzi Bongwana	KO/TKO	4
2006	W	Siyabonga Nyanga	Decision	12
2005	W	Wendy Mackenzie	KO/TKO	8
2005	W	Sakhumzi Bongwana	KO/TKO	7
2005	W	Luthando Maqolo	KO/TKO	7
2005	W	Khulile Makeba	Decision	12
2004	W	Mzimkhulu Funde	Decision	6
2004	W	Bonile Ngcingane	Decision	6
2004	W	Zilindile Kafatyi	Decision	6
2003	W	Siyabulela Ziqula	Decision	8
2003	W	Mlungiseleli Jambela	KO/TKO	2
2002	W	Phillip Stelle	KO/TKO	2
2002	W	Yongama Jezile	KO/TKO	3
2002	W	Sithembile Mangweni	KO/TKO	3
2002	W	Msitheli Gxalathana	KO/TKO	4
2002	W	Lundi Mbozi	Decision	4

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+0.59%

67.3″ reach on a 66.9″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%

Measurements
Reach	67.3″ (171 cm)	22nd pct
Height	66.9″ (170 cm)	44th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing competed at 4: bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	2000s — 22 of 34 dated bouts
Country	South Africa

Record

Boxing record

30–4

34 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 63rd percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

34 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC2002–2018

Career span

17y

2002–2018

Longest unbeaten run

18

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

34

34 with a date

Closest in build

lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Simpiwe Vetyeka's record?: 30–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 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

Lightweight boxing

The 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Vetyeka sits inside.

270 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing

22 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Simpiwe Vetyeka went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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