Virgil Akins
60–31 · 84 recorded bouts · 1948–1962
Virgil Akins finished 57% of 60 wins inside the distance — the 68th percentile for 1950s boxing, where the median is 48%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | not recorded — compared by era instead | |
| Peak era | 1950s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Virgil Akins, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
60–31
93 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — 1950s boxing median 48%, 68th percentile
The career, bout by bout
84 recorded bouts from 1948 to 1962. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1948–1962
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1961
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
84
83 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | L | Rip Randall | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Ralph Dupas | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Vince Bonomo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1961 | D | Stefan Redl | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Jose Antonio Burgos | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Kenny Lane | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | L | Henry White | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Cecil Shorts | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1961 | W | Billy Collins | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Gerald Gray | Decision | 10 |
| 1961 | W | TJ Jones | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1960 | L | Candy McFarland | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Carl Hubbard | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1960 | L | Luis Manuel Rodriguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Charley Scott | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Fernando Barreto | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | L | Wally Swift | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | L | Don Fullmer | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Denny Moyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Kenny Lane | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Stan Harrington | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Luis Manuel Rodriguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Don Jordan | Decision | 15 |
| 1958 | L | Don Jordan | Decision | 15 |
| 1958 | L | Del Flanagan | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Charley Tombstone Smith | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Vince Martinez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1958 | W | Issac Logart | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1958 | W | Tony DeMarco | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1957 | W | Tony DeMarco | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1957 | L | Gil Turner | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Garnet Hart | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1957 | L | Franz Szuzina | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Walter Byars | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Jimmy Beecham | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1957 | W | Al Andrews | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1957 | W | Sammy Walker | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Pat Lowry | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | L | Charlie Sawyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Don Jose | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1956 | W | Hector Constance | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Andy Watkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Mel Barker | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Clarence Cook | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1956 | W | Rudolph Bent | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1955 | L | Issac Logart | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Harold Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Bill Sudduth | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Joe Miceli | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1955 | W | Ronnie Delaney | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1955 | D | Johnny Brown | Decision | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Tommy Maddox | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1954 | W | Henry Hank | Decision | 8 |
| 1954 | L | Andrew Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Joey Greenwood | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1953 | L | Philip Kim | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Johnny Gonsalves | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | L | Joe Miceli | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | L | Johnny Saxton | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Jay Watkins | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 84 recorded bouts.
13 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 87 1950s 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: Virgil Akins on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-10-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.