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Welterweight boxing · 1890s

Paddy Duffy

31–3 · 44 recorded bouts · 1884–1889

Paddy Duffy finished 58% of 31 wins inside the distance — the 55th 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

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height67″ (170.2 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionWelterweight Boxing
Peak era1890s
CountryUnited States

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

loss vs Jack McGee (1884)draw vs Tug Collins (1884)loss vs Paddy Sullivan (1884)win vs Bob Lyons (1884)win vs Young Shannon (1884)win vs Skin Doherty (1884)win vs Bill Rosamond (1885)draw vs George Wilson (1885)win vs Dan Murphy (1885)draw vs Jack McGee (1885)draw vs Tom Wall (1886)win vs Tommy Merrill (1886)win vs Frank Burke (1886)loss vs Billy Teese (1886)win vs Charles Bull McCarthy (1886)draw vs Charles Gleason (1886)win vs Charley Hermon (1886)win vs Kentucky Rosebud (1886)win vs Charley White (1886)win vs Frank Brooks (1886)win vs Butler's Unknown (1886)win vs Pete Conley (1886)win vs Danny Shea (1886)win vs George Milton (1886)win vs Billy Nalley (1886)win vs Billy Young (1886)draw vs Jack McGinty (1887)draw vs Frank Burke (1887)draw vs Fred Woods (1887)win vs Bill Dunn (1887)win vs Tommy Wells (1887)draw vs Bill Frazier (1887)win vs Billy McMillian (1888)draw vs Dick Moorehouse (1888)win vs Paddy Sullivan (1888)win vs Tom Murphy (1888)win vs Dan Custy (1888)win vs Jack McGinty (1888)win vs Jim Meehan (1888)win vs Tom Meadows (1889)? vs Jimmy Conley (1889)draw vs Charles Gleason (1889)
winlossdraw / NC1884–1889

Record

Boxing record

31–3

50 bouts on record

Finish rate

58%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 55th percentile

By knockout: 18 (58%)By decision: 13 (42%)
  • By knockout 58%
  • By decision 42%

The career, bout by bout

44 recorded bouts from 1884 to 1889. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

6y

1884–1889

Longest unbeaten run

20

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1886

16 bouts

Recorded bouts

44

42 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1889 W Tom Meadows DQ45
1889 ? Jimmy Conley
1889 D Charles Gleason Decision10
1888 W Billy McMillian KO/TKO17
1888 D Dick Moorehouse Decision6
1888 W Paddy Sullivan KO/TKO8
1888 W Tom Murphy KO/TKO4
1888 W Dan Custy KO/TKO3
1888 W Jack McGinty KO/TKO9
1888 W Jim Meehan Decision7
1887 D Jack McGinty Decision8
1887 D Frank Burke Decision4
1887 D Fred Woods Decision4
1887 W Bill Dunn KO/TKO3
1887 W Tommy Wells KO/TKO5
1887 D Bill Frazier Decision4
1886 D Tom Wall Decision4
1886 W Tommy Merrill KO/TKO3
1886 W Frank Burke Decision4
1886 L Billy Teese Decision4
1886 W Charles Bull McCarthy Decision4
1886 D Charles Gleason Decision4
1886 W Charley Hermon KO/TKO2
1886 W Kentucky Rosebud Decision4
1886 W Charley White Decision4
1886 W Frank Brooks Decision4
1886 W Butler's Unknown Decision4
1886 W Pete Conley Decision4
1886 W Danny Shea KO/TKO7
1886 W George Milton KO/TKO2
1886 W Billy Nalley KO/TKO4
1886 W Billy Young KO/TKO2
1885 W Bill Rosamond KO/TKO4
1885 D George Wilson Decision4
1885 W Dan Murphy KO/TKO3
1885 D Jack McGee Draw6
1884 L Jack McGee KO/TKO2
1884 D Tug Collins Decision6
1884 L Paddy Sullivan Decision6
1884 W Bob Lyons KO/TKO4
1884 W Young Shannon Decision4
1884 W Skin Doherty KO/TKO3
D Bill Frazier Decision
? Opponent

1 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. 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

Full methodology →

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

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