Ray Seales

Ray Seales finished 60% of 57 wins inside the distance — the 49th percentile for middleweight boxing, where the median is 60%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Peak era	1970s
Country	United States

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

winlossdraw / NC1973–1983

Record

Boxing record

57–8

68 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 49th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

67 recorded bouts from 1973 to 1983. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1973–1983

Longest unbeaten run

23

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1973

13 bouts

Recorded bouts

67

66 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1983	W	Max Hord	KO/TKO	1
1982	L	James Shuler	Decision	12
1982	W	Jesse Lara	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	John LoCicero	Decision	10
1982	W	Alejo Rodriguez	KO/TKO	6
1981	W	Juan Rivas	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Sammy NeSmith	KO/TKO	5
1980	W	James Williams	Decision	10
1980	W	Jamie Thomas	Decision	10
1980	L	Dwight Davison	KO/TKO	10
1980	W	Ted Sanders	KO/TKO	7
1980	W	Art Harris	KO/TKO	6
1979	D	Mike Colbert	Decision	12
1979	W	Raul Adams	KO/TKO	3
1979	L	Marvin Hagler	KO/TKO	1
1978	L	Ayub Kalule	Decision	10
1978	W	Sammy NeSmith	KO/TKO	5
1978	W	Johnny Heard	Decision	10
1978	W	Tommy Howard	Decision	12
1978	W	Mayfield Pennington	KO/TKO	8
1978	D	Willie Warren	Decision	10
1978	W	Emmett Atlas	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Doug Demmings	Decision	15
1977	W	Joe Gonsalves	KO/TKO	5
1977	W	Mike Hallacy	Decision	10
1977	W	Eddie Davis	KO/TKO	7
1977	W	Nate Lenoir	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Vicente Medina	Decision	10
1977	W	Clifford Wills	Decision	10
1977	W	Johnny Heard	KO/TKO	2
1977	W	Tony Gardner	KO/TKO	4
1977	W	George Davis	KO/TKO	2
1977	L	Ronnie Harris	Decision	10
1976	L	Alan Minter	KO/TKO	5
1976	W	Gianni Mingardi	KO/TKO	6
1976	W	Bobby Hoye	KO/TKO	4
1976	W	George Cooper	Decision	12
1975	W	Renato Garcia	Decision	10
1975	W	Mike Lankester	KO/TKO	2
1975	L	Eugene Hart	Decision	10
1975	W	Rudy Cruz	Decision	10
1975	W	Manuel Elizondo	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Johnny Rico	Decision	10
1975	W	Mike Nixon	Decision	10
1974	D	Marvin Hagler	Decision	10
1974	W	Les Riggins	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	David Love	KO/TKO	12
1974	W	John L. Sullivan	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	Jose Martin Flores	KO/TKO	4
1974	W	Joe Espinosa	KO/TKO	10
1974	W	Beto Gonzalez	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Omar Chavez	KO/TKO	8
1974	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1973	W	Jose Miranda	Decision	10
1973	W	Dave Coventry	KO/TKO	4
1973	W	Roy Barrientos	Decision	10
1973	W	Chucho Garcia	Decision	10
1973	W	Chu Chu Padilla	KO/TKO	2
1973	W	Frank Davila	Decision	10
1973	W	Leroy Romero	Decision	10

Showing the 60 most recent of 67 recorded bouts.

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 256 middleweight 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: Sugar Ray Seales on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-08-02. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.