Joe Bowker
43–10 · 55 recorded bouts · 1899–1914
Joe Bowker finished 30% of 43 wins inside the distance — the 19th percentile for featherweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 63″ (160 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing competed at 2: bantamweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1900s | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Joe Bowker, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
43–10
58 bouts on record
Finish rate
30%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
55 recorded bouts from 1899 to 1914. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1899–1914
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1901
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
55
54 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | W | Charlie Ward | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1914 | W | Harold Walker | Decision | 6 |
| 1914 | W | Robert Dastillon | Decision | 15 |
| 1914 | W | Biz Mackey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1913 | W | Francis Charles | Decision | 10 |
| 1913 | W | Young Johnny Cohen | Decision | 15 |
| 1912 | L | Charles Ledoux | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1911 | W | George Allen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1911 | W | Paul Til | DQ | 14 |
| 1911 | W | Con Houghton | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1910 | W | Alec Lambert | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1910 | L | Digger Stanley | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1910 | W | Jean Audouy | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1909 | ? | Johnny Summers | — | 3 |
| 1909 | L | Tommy O'Toole | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1909 | L | Al Delmont | Decision | 12 |
| 1908 | L | Charlie Griffin | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1907 | W | Cockney Cohen | Decision | 10 |
| 1907 | L | Jim Driscoll | KO/TKO | 17 |
| 1907 | W | Harry Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 1907 | ? | Young Bill Smith | — | 3 |
| 1906 | L | Jim Driscoll | Decision | 15 |
| 1906 | D | Bill Fielder | Decision | 6 |
| 1905 | W | Spike Robson | Decision | 20 |
| 1905 | W | Wally Pickard | Decision | 6 |
| 1905 | W | Pinky Evans | Decision | 20 |
| 1905 | ? | Johnny Boyle | — | 3 |
| 1905 | W | Pedlar Palmer | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1904 | W | Frankie Neil | Decision | 20 |
| 1904 | W | Owen Moran | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Alf Fellows | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1903 | W | Bill King | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Andrew Dick Tokell | Decision | 15 |
| 1902 | W | Harry Ware | Decision | 15 |
| 1902 | W | Charlie Hickman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Bill Fielder | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Jack Guyon | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Bill Lampshire | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Harry Paul | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Albert Wheeler | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1901 | W | Jack Guyon | Decision | 6 |
| 1901 | W | Bill Nicholson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1901 | W | Buck Shine | Decision | 3 |
| 1901 | W | Wiliam Parry | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1901 | W | John Ansell | Decision | 3 |
| 1901 | W | Ernie Waterman | Decision | 3 |
| 1901 | W | Dick Tarr | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | L | Jim Pennington | Decision | 3 |
| 1901 | W | Charlie Turner | Decision | 3 |
| 1900 | W | Bill Doyle | Decision | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Tom Owens | Decision | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Pat Daly | Decision | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Tom Perkins | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | L | Billy Pennington | Decision | 4 |
| — | ? | Opponent | — | — |
6 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 237 featherweight 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: Joe Bowker on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.