Terry McGovern
65″ reach · +3.19% reach advantage · 57th percentile
65–6–8
Terry McGovern has a reach of 65″ against a height of 63″ — a reach advantage of +3.19%, above average for lightweight boxing and the 57th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Terry McGovern (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | D | Spike Robson | Draw | 6 |
| 1906 | D | Young Loughrey | Draw | 6 |
| 1906 | D | Young Corbett II | Draw | 6 |
| 1906 | D | Jimmy Britt | Draw | 10 |
| 1906 | L | Battling Nelson | — | 6 |
| 1905 | W | Harlem Tommy Murphy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1904 | W | Eddie Hanlon | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Yock Henniger | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1903 | W | Billy Willis | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Jimmy Briggs | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Lew Ryall | — | 6 |
| 1903 | L | Young Corbett II | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Maynard | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Joe Bernstein | — | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Dave Sullivan | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1901 | L | Young Corbett II | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Aurelio Herrera | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1901 | W | Oscar Gardner | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | W | Joe Gans | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Kid Broad | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Joe Bernstein | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1900 | W | Frank Erne | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | George Dixon | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Tommy White | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Ellwood McCloskey | — | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Tommy Warren | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1900 | W | Eddie Lenny | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Oscar Gardner | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Eddie Santry | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1900 | W | Jack Ward | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Harry Forbes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Charlie Mason | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Freckles O'Brien | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Kid Black | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | James J Corbett Jr. | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Eddie Sprague | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Patsy Haley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Turkey Point Billy Smith | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Billy Rotchford | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Fred Snyder | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Pedlar Palmer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Johnny Ritchie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Billy Barnett | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1899 | W | Sammy Kelly | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1899 | W | Joe Bernstein | Decision | 25 |
| 1899 | W | Casper Leon | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1898 | W | Austin Rice | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1898 | W | Jimmy Rose | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Patsy Donovan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1898 | W | Tim Callahan | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1898 | W | Harry Forbes | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1898 | W | Eugene Garcia | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1898 | W | George Monroe | DQ | 7 |
| 1898 | W | Fred Mayo | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Pinky Evans | Decision | 8 |
| 1898 | W | Billy Maynard | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Jack Kelly | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | W | Charles Roden | Decision | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Harry Peterson | Decision | 6 |
| 1897 | ? | Eddie Goodbody | — | 1 |
Showing 60 of 70 recorded bouts, most recent first.
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Terry McGovern (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.19%
65″ reach on a 63″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 65″ (165.1 cm) | 6th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 63″ (160 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 3: bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 40 of 70 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
65–6
80 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 75th percentile
The career, bout by bout
70 recorded bouts from 1897 to 1906. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1897–1906
Longest unbeaten run
38
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1899
16 bouts
Recorded bouts
70
70 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Orlando Romero+3.22% 68.1″ reach · 58th pct
- Miguel Román+3.09% 67″ reach · 57th pct
- Daniel Estrada+3.3% 74″ reach · 59th pct
- Rose Volante+3.06% 67.5″ reach · 56th pct
- Bobby Pacquiao+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
- Sharif Bogere+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
- Teddy Davis+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
- Charley White+3.04% 68″ reach · 50th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Terry McGovern's record?
- 65–6–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 70 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.
