Jack Root
47–3 · 47 recorded bouts · 1897–1906
Jack Root finished 60% of 47 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 | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1900s | |
| Country | Austria |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jack Root, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
47–3
55 bouts on record
Finish rate
60%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
47 recorded bouts from 1897 to 1906. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1897–1906
Longest unbeaten run
35
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1898
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
47
47 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | W | Fred Russell | Decision | 10 |
| 1905 | L | Marvin Hart | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1904 | W | John Willie | DQ | 5 |
| 1904 | ? | Tommy Ryan | — | 4 |
| 1904 | W | George Gardiner | Decision | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Fireman Jim Flynn | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1903 | L | George Gardiner | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1903 | W | Charles Kid McCoy | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Marvin Hart | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Kid Carter | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | L | George Gardiner | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Stift | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | W | Kid Carter | DQ | 15 |
| 1901 | W | George Byers | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1900 | W | Dick O'Brien | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Dan Creedon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1900 | D | Tommy Ryan | Decision | 6 |
| 1900 | W | Ed Denfass | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | W | Jack Hammond | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Tommy West | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Alec Greggains | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Steiner | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Frank Craig | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Billy Stift | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | John Banks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Fred Grant | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1899 | W | Johnny Gorman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Tom Burke | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1899 | W | Tom Casey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | W | Dick Moore | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Harry Peppers | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Australian Jim Ryan | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Tom Lansing | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Murphy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Jimmy Watts | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Moffat | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Mike Carroll | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | ? | George Ryan | — | 1 |
| 1898 | W | Jack Hammond | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Charles Whitey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Billy Philleth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | W | George Hipp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1898 | W | Young Charlie White | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | W | Pat Brastand | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Charles Upton | KO/TKO | 4 |
10 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: Jack Root on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-10. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.