Mysterious Billy Smith
37–25 · 85 recorded bouts · 1890–1915
Mysterious Billy Smith finished 65% of 37 wins inside the distance — the 66th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1890s | |
| Country | Canada |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Mysterious Billy Smith, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
37–25
94 bouts on record
Finish rate
65%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
85 recorded bouts from 1890 to 1915. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
26y
1890–1915
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1898
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
85
85 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | L | Jack Root | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1911 | L | Jim Cameron | DQ | 3 |
| 1910 | W | Al Neill | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | L | Barbados Joe Walcott | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Tommy Ryan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Al Neill | DQ | 10 |
| 1901 | D | Al Neill | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | Tom Tracey | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | George Byers | Decision | 15 |
| 1901 | L | Young Peter Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | D | Tim Hurley | Decision | 20 |
| 1901 | D | Owen Ziegler | Decision | 10 |
| 1900 | N | Jack Mahoney | — | 11 |
| 1900 | D | Professor Mike Donovan | Decision | 20 |
| 1900 | L | Jim Judge | DQ | 11 |
| 1900 | L | Barbados Joe Walcott | DQ | 10 |
| 1900 | W | Young Peter Jackson | KO/TKO | 18 |
| 1900 | L | Jimmy Handler | Decision | 25 |
| 1900 | L | Matty Matthews | KO/TKO | 19 |
| 1900 | W | Frank McConnell | DQ | 21 |
| 1900 | L | Rube Ferns | DQ | 21 |
| 1899 | W | Charlie McKeever | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | D | Billy Stift | Decision | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Bob Douglass | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Andy Walsh | Decision | 25 |
| 1899 | W | Young Bailey | — | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Jack Mahoney | Draw | 6 |
| 1899 | W | George Lavigne | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1899 | W | Australian Billy Edwards | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1898 | W | Barbados Joe Walcott | Decision | 20 |
| 1898 | D | Tommy West | Decision | 20 |
| 1898 | W | Charlie McKeever | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | Jim Judge | KO/TKO | 20 |
| 1898 | D | Andy Walsh | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | Matty Matthews | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | W | George "Young Corbett" Green | Decision | 25 |
| 1898 | L | Billy Stift | DQ | 5 |
| 1898 | D | Charley Johnson | Decision | 15 |
| 1898 | L | Tim Callahan | — | 6 |
| 1898 | D | Abe Ullman | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Johnny Gorman | DQ | 5 |
| 1897 | W | Billy Mulligan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | L | Jack Bonner | — | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Jack Howard | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1897 | W | Mike Dempsey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | D | Jack Powers | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Abe Ullman | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | L | George "Young Corbett" Green | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1897 | D | Con Doyle | Decision | 12 |
| 1896 | L | Tommy Ryan | DQ | 9 |
| 1896 | L | Australian Jim Ryan | DQ | 7 |
| 1896 | ? | Billy Gallagher | — | 1 |
| 1896 | L | Charles Kid McCoy | DQ | 6 |
| 1896 | W | Bill Husbands | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1896 | W | Trooper Ham | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Jack Bryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Arthur Morris | DQ | 1 |
| 1896 | W | Pat Kehoe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1895 | ? | Tom Cawley | — | 6 |
| 1895 | D | Tommy Ryan | Decision | 18 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 85 recorded bouts.
18 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 292 welterweight 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: Mysterious Billy Smith on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.