Jimmy Bivins

Jimmy Bivins finished 36% of 86 wins inside the distance — the 7th 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

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era	1940s
Country	United States

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

winlossdraw / NC1940–1953

Record

Boxing record

86–26

112 bouts on record

Finish rate

36%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 7th percentile

By knockout 36%
By decision 64%

The career, bout by bout

104 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1953. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

14y

1940–1953

Longest unbeaten run

29

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1940

16 bouts

Recorded bouts

104

103 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1953	W	Mike DeJohn	Decision	6
1953	W	Dan Moray	KO/TKO	3
1953	W	Chubby Wright	Decision	10
1953	W	Claude Rolfe	Decision	10
1953	L	Tommy Harrison	Decision	10
1952	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1952	L	Tommy Harrison	Decision	10
1952	W	Wes Bascom	Decision	10
1952	W	Coley Wallace	KO/TKO	9
1952	W	Aaron Wilson	KO/TKO	3
1951	W	Charley Williams	Decision	10
1951	L	Bob Baker	Decision	10
1951	L	Joe Louis	Decision	10
1951	L	Clarence Henry	Decision	10
1951	W	Willie Bean	Decision	10
1951	W	Ralph Hooker	Decision	10
1951	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	9
1951	W	Ted Lowry	Decision	10
1951	W	Young Harry Wills	KO/TKO	4
1950	L	Sid Peaks	Decision	10
1950	W	Willis Applegate	Decision	10
1949	L	Harold Johnson	Decision	10
1949	W	Clarence Henry	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	Leonard Morrow	Decision	10
1949	W	Watson Jones	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Willie Bean	Decision	10
1949	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	Rusty Payne	Decision	10
1948	L	Joey Maxim	Decision	10
1948	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10
1948	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1948	L	Archie Moore	Decision	10
1948	W	Pat Valentino	Decision	10
1948	W	Billy Thompson	KO/TKO	7
1948	W	Turkey Thompson	Decision	10
1948	W	Johnny Haynes	KO/TKO	4
1948	W	Johnny Shkor	Decision	10
1947	W	Sid Peaks	Decision	10
1947	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	8
1947	W	Bobby Zander	Decision	10
1947	W	Lee Q Murray	Decision	10
1947	W	Omelio Agramonte	KO/TKO	2
1947	W	Curtis Sheppard	Decision	10
1947	L	Ezzard Charles	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Booker Beckwith	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10
1946	W	Colion Chaney	KO/TKO	5
1946	L	Ezzard Charles	Decision	10
1946	L	Lee Q Murray	Decision	10
1946	L	Jersey Joe Walcott	Decision	10
1946	W	Yancey Henry	KO/TKO	10
1946	W	Oakland Billy Smith	Decision	10
1946	W	Johnny Haynes	KO/TKO	2
1946	W	Watson Jones	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Yancey Henry	Decision	10
1945	W	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Curtis Sheppard	Decision	10
1945	W	Russell Scott	KO/TKO	4
1945	D	Melio Bettina	Decision	10
1945	W	Johnny Flynn	Decision	10

Showing the 60 most recent of 104 recorded bouts.

29 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

Full methodology →

Source: Jimmy Bivins on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-08. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.