Tommy Ryan
87–2 · 101 recorded bouts · 1887–1911
87–2–14
Tommy Ryan finished 78% of 87 wins inside the distance — the 89th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Tommy Ryan — 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 292 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | ? | Ed Martin | — | 6 |
| 1907 | D | Hugo Kelly | Decision | 6 |
| 1907 | W | Dave Barry | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1904 | W | Billy Stift | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | N | Jack Root | — | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Jack Graham | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Tommy Wallace | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1904 | W | Bob Douglass | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Jack Beauscholte | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1904 | D | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | Draw | 6 |
| 1903 | W | John Willie | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1903 | D | Dan Hickey | Decision | 6 |
| 1903 | W | James J Walker | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1903 | W | Cyclone Kelly | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1903 | W | Billy Stift | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Barney Walsh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Jack Beauscholte | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Kid Carter | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Johnny Gorman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Jimmy Handler | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Stift | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Mysterious Billy Smith | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Tim Draffin Murphy | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1902 | W | George Green | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1901 | L | George Green | DQ | 6 |
| 1901 | W | Bob Douglass | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1901 | W | Tommy West | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1901 | W | Jim Judge | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1901 | W | Jack Beauscholte | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Kid Carter | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Geoff Thorne | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | D | Jack Root | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Young Mahoney | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | D | Charles Kid McCoy | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | George Lawler | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Craig | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1899 | W | Jack Moffat | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | W | Billy Stift | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Neal | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Paddy Purtell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | W | Charley Johnson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1898 | W | Dick O'Brien | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1898 | N | Tommy West | — | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Johnny Gorman | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Bonner | — | 6 |
| 1898 | W | George Green | KO/TKO | 18 |
| 1897 | W | Bill Heffernan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Billy Stift | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1897 | D | Charles Kid McCoy | Decision | 5 |
| 1897 | W | Tom Williams | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | W | Patsy Raedy | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Paddy Gorman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Tom Tracey | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1896 | W | Billy Payne | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1896 | W | Billy McCarthy | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1896 | W | Mysterious Billy Smith | DQ | 9 |
| 1896 | W | Dick Moore | Decision | 20 |
| 1896 | W | Billy (Shadow) Maber | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1896 | W | Joe Dunfee | KO/TKO | 6 |
Showing 60 of 101 recorded bouts, most recent first.
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tommy Ryan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 57 of 100 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Tommy Ryan, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
87–2
106 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 89th percentile
The career, bout by bout
101 recorded bouts from 1887 to 1911. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
25y
1887–1911
Longest unbeaten run
37
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1902
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
101
100 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tommy Ryan's record?
- 87–2–14 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 101 bouts individually.
- How many of Tommy Ryan's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 101. 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.
