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Lightweight boxing · 1950s

Wallace "Bud" Smith

31–24 · 51 recorded bouts · 1948–1958

Wallace "Bud" Smith finished 58% of 31 wins inside the distance — the 60th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height66″ (167.6 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight Boxing
Peak era1950s
CountryUnited States

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

1950 win vs Torpedo Tinsley (1948)win vs Paulie Brooks (1949)win vs Tommy Campbell (1949)win vs Jay Watkins (1949)win vs Don Bowman (1949)win vs Joe Discepoli (1949)win vs Jesse Underwood (1949)win vs Don Keeling (1949)win vs Doug Medley (1949)win vs Joe Kelly (1949)loss vs Danny Womber (1950)draw vs Jesse Underwood (1950)win vs Jay Watkins (1950)loss vs Jimmy Carter (1950)win vs Giuseppe Colasanti (1950)loss vs Miguel Mendivil (1951)loss vs Tommy Campbell (1951)draw vs Orlando Zulueta (1951)loss vs Virgil Akins (1951)draw vs Dave Marsh (1951)win vs Frankie Betts (1951)win vs Len Dittmar (1953)loss vs George Barnes (1953)win vs Frank Flannery (1953)win vs James Montgomery (1953)win vs Miguel Mendivil (1953)win vs Teddy Davis (1953)win vs Orlando Zulueta (1954)win vs Billy Hazel (1954)win vs Arthur King (1954)win vs Charley Spicer (1954)win vs Carl Coates (1954)win vs Johnny Williams (1954)draw vs Luther Rawlings (1954)draw vs Johnny Saxton (1954)win vs Jimmy Carter (1955)draw vs Johnny Gonsalves (1955)win vs Arthur Persley (1955)loss vs Joe Miceli (1955)win vs Rafel Lastre (1955)loss vs Joe Brown (1956)loss vs Tony DeMarco (1956)loss vs Larry Boardman (1956)loss vs Bobby Scanlon (1957)loss vs Cisco Andrade (1957)loss vs Mickey Crawford (1957)loss vs Joe Brown (1957)loss vs Gomeo Brennan (1958)loss vs Duilio Loi (1958)loss vs Al Nevarez (1958)
winlossdraw / NC1948–1958

Record

Boxing record

31–24

61 bouts on record

Finish rate

58%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 60th percentile

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

The career, bout by bout

51 recorded bouts from 1948 to 1958. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1948–1958

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1949

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

51

50 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1958 L Gomeo Brennan KO/TKO5
1958 L Duilio Loi KO/TKO9
1958 L Al Nevarez Decision10
1957 L Bobby Scanlon KO/TKO10
1957 L Cisco Andrade KO/TKO9
1957 L Mickey Crawford Decision10
1957 L Joe Brown KO/TKO11
1956 L Joe Brown Decision15
1956 L Tony DeMarco KO/TKO9
1956 L Larry Boardman Decision10
1955 W Jimmy Carter Decision15
1955 D Johnny Gonsalves Decision10
1955 W Arthur Persley KO/TKO9
1955 L Joe Miceli Decision10
1955 W Rafel Lastre KO/TKO7
1954 W Orlando Zulueta Decision10
1954 W Billy Hazel KO/TKO1
1954 W Arthur King KO/TKO5
1954 W Charley Spicer KO/TKO6
1954 W Carl Coates KO/TKO6
1954 W Johnny Williams KO/TKO1
1954 D Luther Rawlings Decision10
1954 D Johnny Saxton Decision10
1953 W Len Dittmar KO/TKO5
1953 L George Barnes Decision12
1953 W Frank Flannery Decision12
1953 W James Montgomery Decision8
1953 W Miguel Mendivil KO/TKO2
1953 W Teddy Davis Decision8
1951 L Miguel Mendivil Decision8
1951 L Tommy Campbell Decision10
1951 D Orlando Zulueta Decision8
1951 L Virgil Akins Decision8
1951 D Dave Marsh Decision8
1951 W Frankie Betts KO/TKO2
1950 L Danny Womber Decision8
1950 D Jesse Underwood Decision10
1950 W Jay Watkins Decision10
1950 L Jimmy Carter Decision10
1950 W Giuseppe Colasanti Decision10
1949 W Paulie Brooks KO/TKO4
1949 W Tommy Campbell Decision10
1949 W Jay Watkins KO/TKO4
1949 W Don Bowman KO/TKO1
1949 W Joe Discepoli Decision10
1949 W Jesse Underwood Decision8
1949 W Don Keeling KO/TKO2
1949 W Doug Medley Decision8
1949 W Joe Kelly KO/TKO1
1948 W Torpedo Tinsley KO/TKO1
? Opponent

11 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 258 lightweight 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: Wallace Smith (boxer) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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