Billy Murphy
90–51 · 197 recorded bouts · 1882–1911
Billy Murphy finished 84% of 90 wins inside the distance — the 93rd 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 | 66.5″ (168.9 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1890s | |
| Country | New Zealand |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Billy Murphy, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
90–51
221 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 93rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
197 recorded bouts from 1882 to 1911. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1882–1911
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1887
24 bouts
Recorded bouts
197
195 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | ? | J Young | — | 3 |
| 1907 | D | Jimmy Ross | Decision | 4 |
| 1907 | L | Jim Fairlie Morris | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | Tom Toohey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | ? | Lovegrove | — | 2 |
| 1907 | W | Jack Griffin | Decision | 8 |
| 1906 | D | Jimmy Ross | Decision | 4 |
| 1905 | L | Tim Tracey | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1905 | L | Jack Clarke | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1905 | W | Walter Doman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1905 | ? | Launcy | — | 4 |
| 1905 | ? | Tom Toohey | — | 4 |
| 1905 | ? | Charlie Cameron | — | 6 |
| 1905 | ? | Tommy Kee | — | 6 |
| 1905 | ? | Local Amateur | — | 6 |
| 1904 | ? | Teddy Green | — | 3 |
| 1904 | L | Peter Toohey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1904 | L | Tim Hegarty | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | D | Jack Evans | Decision | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Teddy Peppers | DQ | 2 |
| 1902 | L | Pat Hogan | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Dave Donovan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Johnny Van Heest | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | L | Clarence English | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Bert Cassell | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | L | Haich Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | L | Larry Gleason | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | D | Sig Hart | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | N | Patsy Magner | — | 2 |
| 1899 | L | Harry Harris | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | L | Harry Forbes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1899 | D | Frank Stackhouse | Decision | 8 |
| 1899 | L | Kid Moore | Decision | 15 |
| 1899 | L | Johnny Van Heest | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Walter Burbeck | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | L | Casper Leon | Decision | 10 |
| 1898 | L | Eddie Santry | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Jimmy Reeder | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Yock Henniger | DQ | 4 |
| 1898 | ? | Bill Baxter Junior | — | 4 |
| 1898 | L | Will Curley | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1898 | ? | Young Charlie White | — | 3 |
| 1897 | ? | Bill Wood | — | 3 |
| 1897 | W | Ellwood McCloskey | — | 6 |
| 1897 | D | Billy Rotchford | Decision | 3 |
| 1897 | L | Oscar Gardner | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | D | Austin Rice | Decision | 20 |
| 1897 | W | Bill Barbeck | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1897 | L | Danny McMahon | — | 6 |
| 1897 | D | Dave Wall | Decision | 10 |
| 1897 | L | Jack Delaney | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1897 | L | George Dixon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1896 | D | Johnny Lavack | Decision | 20 |
| 1896 | W | Jim Conners | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1896 | W | Paddy Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1896 | D | Jimmy Devers | Decision | 10 |
| 1895 | L | Solly Smith | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1895 | W | Jack Dougherty | Decision | 10 |
| 1895 | W | Billy Sheldon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1895 | D | Tommy White | Decision | 20 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 197 recorded bouts.
14 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: Torpedo Billy Murphy on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.