Billy Murphy
90–51 · 197 recorded bouts · 1882–1911
90–51–24
Billy Murphy finished 84% of 90 wins inside the distance — the 93rd percentile for featherweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Torpedo Billy Murphy — 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 237 featherweight 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 | ? | J Young | — | 3 |
| 1907 | D | Jimmy Ross | Decision | 4 |
| 1907 | L | Jim Fairlie Morris | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | Tom Toohey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | ? | Lovegrove | — | 2 |
| 1907 | W | Jack Griffin | Decision | 8 |
| 1906 | D | Jimmy Ross | Decision | 4 |
| 1905 | L | Tim Tracey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1905 | L | Jack Clarke | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1905 | W | Walter Doman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1905 | ? | Launcy | — | 4 |
| 1905 | ? | Tom Toohey | — | 4 |
| 1905 | ? | Charlie Cameron | — | 6 |
| 1905 | ? | Tommy Kee | — | 6 |
| 1905 | ? | Local Amateur | — | 6 |
| 1904 | ? | Teddy Green | — | 3 |
| 1904 | L | Peter Toohey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1904 | L | Tim Hegarty | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | D | Jack Evans | Decision | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Teddy Peppers | DQ | 2 |
| 1902 | L | Pat Hogan | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Dave Donovan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Johnny Van Heest | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Clarence English | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Bert Cassell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | L | Haich Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | L | Larry Gleason | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | D | Sig Hart | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | N | Patsy Magner | — | 2 |
| 1899 | L | Harry Harris | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | L | Harry Forbes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Frank Stackhouse | Decision | 8 |
| 1899 | L | Kid Moore | Decision | 15 |
| 1899 | L | Johnny Van Heest | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Walter Burbeck | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | L | Casper Leon | Decision | 10 |
| 1898 | L | Eddie Santry | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Jimmy Reeder | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Yock Henniger | DQ | 4 |
| 1898 | ? | Bill Baxter Junior | — | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Will Curley | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1898 | ? | Young Charlie White | — | 3 |
| 1897 | ? | Bill Wood | — | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Ellwood McCloskey | — | 6 |
| 1897 | D | Billy Rotchford | Decision | 3 |
| 1897 | L | Oscar Gardner | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | D | Austin Rice | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | W | Bill Barbeck | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | L | Danny McMahon | — | 6 |
| 1897 | D | Dave Wall | Decision | 10 |
| 1897 | L | Jack Delaney | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1897 | L | George Dixon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1896 | D | Johnny Lavack | Decision | 20 |
| 1896 | W | Jim Conners | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1896 | W | Paddy Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1896 | D | Jimmy Devers | Decision | 10 |
| 1895 | L | Solly Smith | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1895 | W | Jack Dougherty | Decision | 10 |
| 1895 | W | Billy Sheldon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1895 | D | Tommy White | Decision | 20 |
Showing 60 of 197 recorded bouts, most recent first.
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Torpedo Billy Murphy — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66.5″ (168.9 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1880s — 95 of 195 dated bouts | |
| Country | New Zealand |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Murphy, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
90–51
221 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 93rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
197 recorded bouts from 1882 to 1911. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1882–1911
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1887
24 bouts
Recorded bouts
197
195 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Billy Murphy's record?
- 90–51–24 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 197 bouts individually.
- How many of Billy Murphy's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 197. 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.
