Walter McGowan
32–7 · 40 recorded bouts · 1961–1969
32–7–1
Walter McGowan finished 44% of 32 wins inside the distance — the 45th percentile for flyweight boxing, where the median is 47%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Walter McGowan — 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 168 flyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | W | Domenico Chiloiro | Decision | 8 |
| 1969 | W | Umberto Simbola | Decision | 8 |
| 1969 | W | Michel Houdeau | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1968 | W | Messaoud Boussaboua | Decision | 8 |
| 1968 | W | Marc Van Domme | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1968 | W | Gerard Macrez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1968 | L | Alan Rudkin | Decision | 15 |
| 1967 | L | Chartchai Chionoi | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1967 | W | Antoine Porcel | Decision | 10 |
| 1967 | W | Giancarlo Centa | Decision | 8 |
| 1967 | W | Isao Miyashita | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1966 | L | Chartchai Chionoi | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1966 | W | Jose Bisbal | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1966 | W | Alan Rudkin | Decision | 15 |
| 1966 | W | Salvatore Burruni | Decision | 15 |
| 1966 | W | Ernesto Miranda | Decision | 8 |
| 1966 | W | Nevio Carbi | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1965 | D | Tommaso Galli | Decision | 15 |
| 1965 | L | Ronnie Jones | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1965 | L | José Medel | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1965 | W | Benny Lee | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Felix Said Brami | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Mick Hussey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1964 | W | Luis Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1964 | W | Natalio Jimenez | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | L | Salvatore Burruni | Decision | 15 |
| 1964 | W | Risto Luukkonen | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | W | Ric Magramo | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | W | Killer Solomon | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1963 | W | Ray Perez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1963 | W | Jackie Brown | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1963 | W | Bernard Jubert | Decision | 8 |
| 1962 | W | Ray Jutras | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1962 | W | René Libeer | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1962 | W | Jacques Jacob | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1962 | W | Danny Lee | Decision | 8 |
| 1961 | W | Brian Bissmire | Decision | 8 |
| 1961 | L | Jackie Brown | Decision | 8 |
| 1961 | W | Eddie Barraclough | Decision | 8 |
| 1961 | W | George McDade | KO/TKO | 3 |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Walter McGowan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Flyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1960s — 40 of 40 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Walter McGowan, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
32–7
40 bouts on record
Finish rate
44%
of wins ended inside the distance — flyweight boxing median 47%, 45th percentile
The career, bout by bout
40 recorded bouts from 1961 to 1969. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1961–1969
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1965
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
40
40 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Walter McGowan's record?
- 32–7–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 40 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.
Where this record leads
The 170 flyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution McGowan sits inside.
170 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing40 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsWalter McGowan went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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