What is Ray Seales's record?

57–8–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.

How many of Ray Seales's bouts have no date?

1 of 67. 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.

Ray Seales — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

57–8–3

Ray Seales finished 60% of 57 wins inside the distance — the 49th percentile for middleweight boxing, where the median is 60%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1973–1983 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Sugar Ray Seales — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

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 2026-08-02. 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 256 middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1983	W	Max Hord	KO/TKO	1
1982	L	James Shuler	Decision	12
1982	W	Jesse Lara	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	John LoCicero	Decision	10
1982	W	Alejo Rodriguez	KO/TKO	6
1981	W	Juan Rivas	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Sammy NeSmith	KO/TKO	5
1980	W	James Williams	Decision	10
1980	W	Jamie Thomas	Decision	10
1980	L	Dwight Davison	KO/TKO	10
1980	W	Ted Sanders	KO/TKO	7
1980	W	Art Harris	KO/TKO	6
1979	D	Mike Colbert	Decision	12
1979	W	Raul Adams	KO/TKO	3
1979	L	Marvin Hagler	KO/TKO	1
1978	L	Ayub Kalule	Decision	10
1978	W	Sammy NeSmith	KO/TKO	5
1978	W	Johnny Heard	Decision	10
1978	W	Tommy Howard	Decision	12
1978	W	Mayfield Pennington	KO/TKO	8
1978	D	Willie Warren	Decision	10
1978	W	Emmett Atlas	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Doug Demmings	Decision	15
1977	W	Joe Gonsalves	KO/TKO	5
1977	W	Mike Hallacy	Decision	10
1977	W	Eddie Davis	KO/TKO	7
1977	W	Nate Lenoir	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Vicente Medina	Decision	10
1977	W	Clifford Wills	Decision	10
1977	W	Johnny Heard	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Tony Gardner	KO/TKO	4
1977	W	George Davis	KO/TKO	2
1977	L	Ronnie Harris	Decision	10
1976	L	Alan Minter	KO/TKO	5
1976	W	Gianni Mingardi	KO/TKO	6
1976	W	Bobby Hoye	KO/TKO	4
1976	W	George Cooper	Decision	12
1975	W	Renato Garcia	Decision	10
1975	W	Mike Lankester	KO/TKO	2
1975	L	Eugene Hart	Decision	10
1975	W	Rudy Cruz	Decision	10
1975	W	Manuel Elizondo	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Johnny Rico	Decision	10
1975	W	Mike Nixon	Decision	10
1974	D	Marvin Hagler	Decision	10
1974	W	Les Riggins	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	David Love	KO/TKO	12
1974	W	John L. Sullivan	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	Jose Martin Flores	KO/TKO	4
1974	W	Joe Espinosa	KO/TKO	10
1974	W	Beto Gonzalez	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Omar Chavez	KO/TKO	8
1974	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1973	W	Jose Miranda	Decision	10
1973	W	Dave Coventry	KO/TKO	4
1973	W	Roy Barrientos	Decision	10
1973	W	Chucho Garcia	Decision	10
1973	W	Chu Chu Padilla	KO/TKO	2
1973	W	Frank Davila	Decision	10
1973	W	Leroy Romero	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Sugar Ray Seales — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 54 of 66 dated bouts
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ray Seales, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1973–1983

Record

Boxing record

57–8

68 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 49th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

67 recorded bouts from 1973 to 1983. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1973–1983

Longest unbeaten run

23

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1973

13 bouts

Recorded bouts

67

66 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ray Seales's record?: 57–8–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.
How many of Ray Seales's bouts have no date?: 1 of 67. 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

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Seales sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

54 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs Ray Seales

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1974 Longest unbeaten runs

Ray Seales went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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