Dave Sands
87–10 · 81 recorded bouts · 1941–1952
Dave Sands finished 60% of 87 wins inside the distance — the 34th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.5″ (179 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1950s | |
| Country | Australia |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Dave Sands, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
87–10
100 bouts on record
Finish rate
60%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
81 recorded bouts from 1941 to 1952. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1941–1952
Longest unbeaten run
32
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1944
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
81
80 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | W | Jim Woods | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1952 | W | Al Bourke | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1952 | W | Chub Keith | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1952 | W | Ron Toohey | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1951 | L | Yolande Pompey | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1951 | W | Henry Brimm | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Bobo Olson | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Doug Miller | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Mel Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Henry Bray | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1951 | W | Irvin Steen | Decision | 12 |
| 1951 | W | Boy Brooks | Decision | 12 |
| 1950 | W | Don Mullett | Decision | 12 |
| 1950 | W | Alf Gallagher | Decision | 15 |
| 1950 | W | Henry Brimm | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1950 | W | Boy Brooks | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Bobo Olson | Decision | 12 |
| 1949 | W | Pete Mead | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Dick Turpin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1949 | W | Robert Villemain | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Jan de Bruin | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Jackie Jones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1949 | W | Lucien Caboche | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | L | Tommy Yarosz | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Antoine Toniolo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | W | Tommy Prince | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1948 | W | Len Dittmar | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1948 | W | Doug Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | W | Billy Meyers | Decision | 12 |
| 1948 | W | George Allen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Billy Myers | Decision | 12 |
| 1948 | N | Jackie Marr | — | 7 |
| 1948 | W | Don Mullett | Decision | 12 |
| 1948 | W | Doug Rollinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | W | Alabama Kid | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Alex Buxton | Decision | 12 |
| 1947 | W | George Allen | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1947 | W | George 'Wildcat' Henry | Decision | 12 |
| 1947 | ? | Emory Jackson | — | 7 |
| 1947 | W | Art Lind | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1946 | W | Alf Gallagher | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1946 | D | Jackie Marr | Decision | 12 |
| 1946 | W | Jack Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1946 | W | Jack Kirkham | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1946 | W | Jimmy Brunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1946 | W | Alex Buxton | Decision | 12 |
| 1945 | W | Tommy Colteaux | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1945 | W | Al Walker | Decision | 12 |
| 1945 | W | Max Cameron | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1945 | W | Billy Myers | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1945 | W | Tom Laming | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1945 | W | Herb Broom | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1945 | W | Jack Brander | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1944 | W | Jackie Marr | Decision | 12 |
| 1944 | W | Jimmy Grey | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1944 | W | Max Cameron | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1944 | W | Tom Laming | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1944 | W | Jackie Day | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1944 | W | Bob Coughlan | Decision | 12 |
| 1944 | W | Dal Conway | KO/TKO | 4 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 81 recorded bouts.
3 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 587 heavyweight 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
Source: Dave Sands on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.