Billy Backus

Billy Backus finished 46% of 48 wins inside the distance — the 38th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Welterweight Boxing
Peak era	1970s
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Backus, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1961–1978

Record

Boxing record

48–20

73 bouts on record

Finish rate

46%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 38th percentile

By knockout 46%
By decision 54%

The career, bout by bout

70 recorded bouts from 1961 to 1978. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

18y

1961–1978

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1968

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

70

68 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1978	L	Pipino Cuevas	KO/TKO	1
1977	D	Everaldo Costa Azevedo	Decision	12
1977	W	Joe Grier	Decision	10
1977	W	Rafael Rodriguez	Decision	12
1977	W	Roy Barrientos	Decision	10
1977	W	Justice Ortiz	Decision	10
1976	W	Tony Lopes	KO/TKO	9
1976	W	Pablo Rodriguez	Decision	10
1976	W	Jose Papo Melendez	Decision	10
1976	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1975	W	Marc Gervais	KO/TKO	10
1975	L	Rocky Mattioli	KO/TKO	5
1974	L	Eckhard Dagge	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Jacques Kechichian	KO/TKO	5
1974	L	Roger Menetrey	Decision	12
1974	W	Roger Zami	KO/TKO	9
1973	L	Zovek Barajas	KO/TKO	3
1973	W	Al Romano	KO/TKO	3
1973	L	Miguel Barreto	Decision	12
1973	L	Jack Tillman	Decision	12
1972	L	Hedgemon Lewis	Decision	15
1972	W	Dorman Crawford	KO/TKO	8
1972	W	Danny McAloon	Decision	12
1972	W	Irish Pat Murphy	KO/TKO	7
1971	W	Jose Gabino	Decision	10
1971	L	José Nápoles	KO/TKO	8
1971	W	Robert Gallois	Decision	10
1971	W	Bobby Williams	Decision	12
1970	W	José Nápoles	KO/TKO	4
1970	W	Denny Stiletto	KO/TKO	8
1970	W	Manuel Gonzalez	Decision	10
1970	W	Frank Steele	Decision	10
1970	W	Manuel Burgo	Decision	10
1970	W	Ricky Ortiz	KO/TKO	8
1969	D	Ricky Ortiz	Decision	10
1969	W	Jerry Pellegrini	Decision	10
1969	L	Percy Pugh	Decision	15
1969	W	CL Lewis	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Freddie Cobb	KO/TKO	5
1968	W	Vince Shomo	KO/TKO	8
1968	W	Johnny Brooks	Decision	10
1968	W	Curtis Phillips	KO/TKO	7
1968	W	Jerry Pellegrini	Decision	10
1968	L	Percy Pugh	Decision	10
1968	W	Dick French	KO/TKO	6
1968	W	Danny Andrews	Decision	10
1968	W	Juan Ramos	Decision	10
1967	W	Gene Herrick	KO/TKO	6
1967	W	Curtis Phillips	KO/TKO	6
1967	W	Ernie Robbins	KO/TKO	3
1967	W	Tod Purtell	KO/TKO	1
1965	L	Rudy Richardson	Decision	8
1964	L	Billy Anderson	Decision	10
1964	L	Genaro Soto	Decision	6
1964	W	Colin Fraser	Decision	10
1964	W	Lew Anderson	KO/TKO	5
1964	W	Dave Hilton Sr.	KO/TKO	7
1963	L	Billy Anderson	Decision	8
1963	L	Fernand Chretien	Decision	10
1963	L	Dick French	Decision	8

Showing the 60 most recent of 70 recorded bouts.

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Billy Backus on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.