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Light heavyweight boxing · 1990s

William Joppy

40–7 · 50 recorded bouts · 1993–2011

William Joppy finished 75% of 40 wins inside the distance — the 83rd percentile for light heavyweight boxing, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height69″ (175.3 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLight Heavyweight Boxing
competed at 3: middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era1990s
CountryUnited States

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

2000 2010 win vs Tyrone Haywood (1993)win vs Ivory Teague (1993)win vs George Taylor (1993)win vs Tim Tisdale (1993)win vs Shane Martin (1993)win vs Ken Ruffin (1993)win vs Dwayne Tennet (1993)win vs Tony Cartel (1994)win vs Richard Evans (1994)win vs Miguel Angel Hernandez (1994)win vs Carlos Christie (1994)win vs Carl Sullivan (1994)win vs Muhammad Shabazz (1994)win vs Kenneth Parker (1994)win vs Tony McCrimmion (1994)win vs Robert Harris (1994)win vs Willie Taylor (1994)win vs Israel Figueroa (1995)draw vs Rodney Toney (1995)win vs Joaquin Velasquez (1995)win vs Tony McCrimmion (1995)win vs Ray McElroy (1996)win vs Shinji Takehara (1996)win vs Dave Boone (1996)loss vs Julio César Green (1997)win vs Peter Venancio (1997)win vs Roberto Durán (1998)win vs Julio César Green (1998)win vs Julio César Green (1999)win vs Napoleon Pitt (1999)win vs Jonathan Reid (2000)win vs Hacine Cherifi (2000)win vs Rito Ruvalcaba (2000)win vs Fernando Zuniga (2000)win vs Howard Eastman (2001)loss vs Félix Trinidad (2001)win vs Naotaka Hozumi (2002)loss vs Bernard Hopkins (2003)loss vs Jermain Taylor (2004)win vs Rashaan Blackburn (2005)win vs Jonathan Corn (2006)win vs Eric Howard (2006)win vs Etianne Whitaker (2007)win vs Virgil McClendon (2007)loss vs Lucian Bute (2008)draw vs Cory Cummings (2010)loss vs Sébastien Demers (2010)win vs Cory Cummings (2011)loss vs Beibut Shumenov (2011)
winlossdraw / NC1993–2011

Record

Boxing record

40–7

49 bouts on record

Finish rate

75%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 83rd percentile

By knockout: 30 (75%)By decision: 10 (25%)
  • By knockout 75%
  • By decision 25%

The career, bout by bout

50 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

19y

1993–2011

Longest unbeaten run

23

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1994

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

50

49 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2011 W Cory Cummings Decision10
2011 L Beibut Shumenov KO/TKO6
2010 D Cory Cummings Decision10
2010 L Sébastien Demers Decision10
2008 L Lucian Bute KO/TKO10
2007 W Etianne Whitaker KO/TKO1
2007 W Virgil McClendon 1
2006 W Jonathan Corn KO/TKO5
2006 W Eric Howard KO/TKO5
2005 W Rashaan Blackburn KO/TKO3
2004 L Jermain Taylor Decision12
2003 L Bernard Hopkins Decision12
2002 W Naotaka Hozumi KO/TKO10
2001 W Howard Eastman 12
2001 L Félix Trinidad KO/TKO5
2000 W Jonathan Reid KO/TKO4
2000 W Hacine Cherifi Decision12
2000 W Rito Ruvalcaba KO/TKO1
2000 W Fernando Zuniga Decision10
1999 W Julio César Green KO/TKO7
1999 W Napoleon Pitt KO/TKO1
1998 W Roberto Durán KO/TKO3
1998 W Julio César Green Decision12
1997 L Julio César Green Decision12
1997 W Peter Venancio Decision12
1996 W Ray McElroy KO/TKO7
1996 W Shinji Takehara KO/TKO9
1996 W Dave Boone KO/TKO2
1995 W Israel Figueroa KO/TKO1
1995 D Rodney Toney Draw12
1995 W Joaquin Velasquez Decision10
1995 W Tony McCrimmion KO/TKO3
1994 W Tony Cartel KO/TKO2
1994 W Richard Evans Decision8
1994 W Miguel Angel Hernandez KO/TKO3
1994 W Carlos Christie 6
1994 W Carl Sullivan KO/TKO4
1994 W Muhammad Shabazz KO/TKO5
1994 W Kenneth Parker KO/TKO2
1994 W Tony McCrimmion KO/TKO2
1994 W Robert Harris KO/TKO1
1994 W Willie Taylor KO/TKO3
1993 W Tyrone Haywood KO/TKO2
1993 W Ivory Teague KO/TKO2
1993 W George Taylor KO/TKO3
1993 W Tim Tisdale 1
1993 W Shane Martin KO/TKO3
1993 W Ken Ruffin 1
1993 W Dwayne Tennet 4
? Opponent

13 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 208 light heavyweight 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: William Joppy on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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