William Joppy
40–7 · 50 recorded bouts · 1993–2011
40–7–2
William Joppy finished 75% of 40 wins inside the distance — the 83rd percentile for light heavyweight boxing, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·William Joppy — 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 208 light heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | W | Cory Cummings | Decision | 10 |
| 2011 | L | Beibut Shumenov | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | D | Cory Cummings | Decision | 10 |
| 2010 | L | Sébastien Demers | Decision | 10 |
| 2008 | L | Lucian Bute | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Etianne Whitaker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Virgil McClendon | — | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Jonathan Corn | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2006 | W | Eric Howard | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2005 | W | Rashaan Blackburn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Jermain Taylor | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | L | Bernard Hopkins | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Naotaka Hozumi | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2001 | W | Howard Eastman | — | 12 |
| 2001 | L | Félix Trinidad | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2000 | W | Jonathan Reid | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Hacine Cherifi | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Rito Ruvalcaba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Fernando Zuniga | Decision | 10 |
| 1999 | W | Julio César Green | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1999 | W | Napoleon Pitt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Roberto Durán | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Julio César Green | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Julio César Green | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Peter Venancio | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Ray McElroy | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1996 | W | Shinji Takehara | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1996 | W | Dave Boone | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Israel Figueroa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Rodney Toney | Draw | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Joaquin Velasquez | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Tony McCrimmion | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Tony Cartel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Richard Evans | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Miguel Angel Hernandez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Carlos Christie | — | 6 |
| 1994 | W | Carl Sullivan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Muhammad Shabazz | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1994 | W | Kenneth Parker | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Tony McCrimmion | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Robert Harris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Willie Taylor | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Tyrone Haywood | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Ivory Teague | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | George Taylor | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Tim Tisdale | — | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Shane Martin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Ken Ruffin | — | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Dwayne Tennet | — | 4 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·William Joppy — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 30 of 49 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for William Joppy, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
40–7
49 bouts on record
Finish rate
75%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 83rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
50 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1993–2011
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1994
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
50
49 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is William Joppy's record?
- 40–7–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 bouts individually.
- How many of William Joppy's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 50. 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.
Where this record leads
The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Joppy sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing30 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsWilliam Joppy went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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