Jake Kilrain
31–5 · 51 recorded bouts · 1879–1899
Jake Kilrain finished 58% of 31 wins inside the distance — the 31st 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 | |
| Peak era | 1880s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jake Kilrain, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
31–5
47 bouts on record
Finish rate
58%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 31st percentile
The career, bout by bout
51 recorded bouts from 1879 to 1899. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
1879–1899
Longest unbeaten run
19
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1890
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
51
49 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | L | Steve O'Donnell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1896 | L | Frank Slavin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1895 | ? | Abe Ullman | — | 10 |
| 1895 | L | Steve O'Donnell | KO/TKO | 21 |
| 1891 | L | Frank Slavin | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1891 | W | George Godfrey | KO/TKO | 44 |
| 1890 | W | George Maguire | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1890 | W | Mike Brennan | Decision | 3 |
| 1890 | W | George Harris | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1890 | W | Arthur Chambers | Decision | 3 |
| 1890 | W | Jerry Slattery | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1890 | W | Dick Mayel | Decision | 3 |
| 1890 | W | Tommy McManus | Decision | 3 |
| 1890 | W | Frank Straub | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1890 | W | Frank Bosworth | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1890 | L | James J. Corbett | Decision | 6 |
| 1890 | W | Felix Vacquelin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1889 | L | John Scholes | — | 4 |
| 1889 | L | John L. Sullivan | KO/TKO | 75 |
| 1887 | D | Jem Smith | Decision | 106 |
| 1887 | W | Joe Lannon | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1886 | ? | Jack Ashton | — | 4 |
| 1886 | ? | Johny Seidel | — | 4 |
| 1886 | W | John P. Clow | Decision | 4 |
| 1886 | W | Denny Killen | Decision | 4 |
| 1886 | W | Tommy Kelly | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1886 | W | Joe Godfrey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1886 | W | Frank Herald | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1886 | D | Frank Faber | Decision | — |
| 1885 | D | George Fryer | Decision | 5 |
| 1885 | W | Jerry Murphy | Decision | 4 |
| 1884 | W | Alf Greenfield | Decision | — |
| 1884 | D | Jack Burke | Decision | 5 |
| 1884 | D | Jem Goode | Decision | 5 |
| 1884 | D | Mike Cleary | Decision | 4 |
| 1884 | W | William Sherriff | Decision | 3 |
| 1884 | D | Charley Mitchell | Decision | 4 |
| 1883 | W | Jerry Murphy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1883 | D | Jem Goode | Decision | 5 |
| 1883 | W | George Godfrey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1883 | W | John McGylnn | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1883 | W | Pete McCoy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1883 | W | John Allen | Decision | 3 |
| 1882 | D | George Godfrey | Decision | 3 |
| 1880 | W | John Hughes | Decision | 3 |
| 1879 | W | Dennis Roach | KO/TKO | — |
| 1879 | W | Dan Dwyer | Decision | — |
| 1879 | W | Jem Driscoll | KO/TKO | — |
| 1879 | W | Jack Daley | KO/TKO | 2 |
| — | W | John Allen | — | — |
| — | ? | Opponent | — | — |
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 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: Jake Kilrain on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.