Wally Carr
53–38 · 85 recorded bouts · 1971–1986
53–38–9
Wally Carr finished 51% of 53 wins inside the distance — the 29th percentile for 1970s boxing, where the median is 61%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Wally Carr — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-01
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 2026-04-01. 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 114 1970s 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | L | Doug Sam | KO/TKO | — |
| 1986 | L | Gary Hubble | DQ | — |
| 1985 | L | Dave Russell | Decision | — |
| 1984 | W | Alan Black | KO/TKO | — |
| 1984 | L | Chong Pal Park | Decision | — |
| 1984 | L | Pat Hailwood | Decision | — |
| 1984 | L | Kevin Wagstaff | Decision | — |
| 1984 | W | Tommy West | Decision | — |
| 1983 | W | Gary Hubble | KO/TKO | — |
| 1983 | W | Peter Hewitt | KO/TKO | — |
| 1983 | L | Terry Archer | DQ | — |
| 1983 | D | Young Stone | Decision | — |
| 1983 | L | Young Haumona | Decision | — |
| 1981 | L | Stephane Ferrara | Decision | — |
| 1981 | L | Alex Sua | KO/TKO | — |
| 1980 | W | Ken Eldridge | KO/TKO | — |
| 1980 | L | Phil Kating | Decision | — |
| 1980 | W | Terry Fox | KO/TKO | — |
| 1980 | W | Fossie Schmidt | KO/TKO | — |
| 1979 | W | Terry Fox | Decision | — |
| 1979 | W | John Krishna | KO/TKO | — |
| 1979 | L | Monty Betham | Decision | — |
| 1978 | W | Torkano Marcos | KO/TKO | — |
| 1978 | W | Benny Holt | KO/TKO | — |
| 1978 | W | Al Korovou | KO/TKO | — |
| 1978 | L | Neil Pattell | Decision | — |
| 1977 | L | Al Korovou | Decision | — |
| 1977 | W | Johnny Layton | Decision | — |
| 1977 | W | Rudy Siregar | Decision | — |
| 1976 | D | Johnny Layton | Decision | — |
| 1976 | L | Monty Betham | KO/TKO | — |
| 1976 | L | Neil Pattell | Decision | — |
| 1976 | W | Eric King | KO/TKO | — |
| 1976 | L | Julius Luipa | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | W | Joe Keresi | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | W | Benny Holt | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | W | Bernie Alexander | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | L | Martin Beni | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | W | Billy O'Donnell | KO/TKO | — |
| 1975 | W | Alan Aldenhoven | KO/TKO | — |
| 1974 | L | Dennis Enright | Decision | — |
| 1974 | L | Colin Cassidy | Decision | — |
| 1974 | L | Andy Broome | KO/TKO | — |
| 1974 | W | Billy O'Connor | KO/TKO | — |
| 1974 | W | Wayne Cullen | KO/TKO | — |
| 1974 | W | Matt Ropis | Decision | — |
| 1974 | W | Barry Facer | KO/TKO | — |
| 1974 | W | Fred Rolando Pastor | Decision | — |
| 1974 | W | Martin Ross | KO/TKO | — |
| 1973 | W | Elley Dennis | Decision | — |
| 1973 | L | Antonio Oke | Decision | — |
| 1973 | L | Bobby Cotterill | Decision | — |
| 1973 | L | Colin Cassidy | KO/TKO | — |
| 1973 | W | Les Knox | Decision | — |
| 1973 | L | David Hill | Decision | — |
| 1973 | D | Jim Metcalfe | Decision | — |
| 1973 | W | Mick Maher | Decision | — |
| 1973 | W | Binky Rominski | Decision | — |
| 1973 | W | Eric King | Decision | — |
| 1973 | L | Rod Connors | Decision | — |
Showing 60 of 85 recorded bouts, most recent first.
2 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Wally Carr — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-01
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | not recorded — compared by era instead | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 65 of 84 dated bouts | |
| Country | Australia |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Wally Carr, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
53–38
100 bouts on record
Finish rate
51%
of wins ended inside the distance — 1970s boxing median 61%, 29th percentile
The career, bout by bout
85 recorded bouts from 1971 to 1986. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1971–1986
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1972
14 bouts
Recorded bouts
85
84 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Wally Carr's record?
- 53–38–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 bouts individually.
- How many of Wally Carr's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 85. 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.
