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Ray Mercer vs Shannon Briggs

A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.

Ray Mercer and Shannon Briggs met once (2005). Shannon Briggs won in 2005 by ko.

Side by side

Ray MercerShannon Briggs
77″ (195.6 cm)Reach80″ (203.2 cm)
73″ (185.4 cm)Height76″ (193 cm)
+5.5%Reach advantage+5.28%
1–0Record60–6
100%Finish rate88%
20Longest unbeaten run25
47Recorded bouts67
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox

A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.

Common opponents

Both fought these 3. This is the comparison the siloed databases cannot make, because it needs every fight list linked to every other.

OpponentRay MercerShannon Briggs
Lennox Lewis L L
Darroll Wilson W L
Marion Wilson D W

Careers side by side

Ray Mercer

1990 2000 win vs Ossie Ocasio (1989)win vs Jerry Jones (1989)win vs Eddie Richardson (1989)win vs Arthel Lawhorne (1989)win vs Dino Homsey (1989)win vs Tracy Thomas (1989)win vs Al Evans (1989)win vs Ken Crosby (1989)win vs David Hopkins (1989)win vs Garing Lane (1989)win vs Luis Walford (1989)win vs Jesse McGhee (1989)win vs Bert Cooper (1990)win vs Lionel Washington (1990)win vs Kimmuel Odum (1990)win vs Wesley Watson (1990)win vs Tommy Morrison (1991)win vs Francesco Damiani (1991)win vs Jerry Halstead (1992)win vs Mike Dixon (1992)loss vs Larry Holmes (1992)win vs Jesse Ferguson (1993)win vs Mark Wills (1993)win vs Tony Willis (1993)draw vs Marion Wilson (1994)loss vs Evander Holyfield (1995)win vs Tim Witherspoon (1996)loss vs Lennox Lewis (1996)win vs Leo Loiacono (1998)win vs Jimmy Haynes (1999)win vs Brian Scott (2001)win vs Don Steele (2001)win vs Jeff Pegues (2001)loss vs Wladimir Klitschko (2002)win vs Troy Weida (2002)win vs Shawn Robinson (2003)win vs Mario Cawley (2003)win vs Steve Pannell (2004)loss vs Musashi (2004)loss vs Shannon Briggs (2005)win vs Darroll Wilson (2005)loss vs Remy Bonjasky (2005)loss vs Kimbo Slice (2007)win vs Mikael Lindblad (2007)win vs Richel Hersisia (2008)loss vs Derric Rossy (2008)win vs Tim Sylvia (2009)
winlossdraw / NC1989–2009

Shannon Briggs

2000 2010 win vs Robert Pagan Perez (1992)win vs Rocky Bentley (1992)win vs Rick Honeycutt (1992)win vs Tony Simpson (1992)win vs Donnie Penelton (1992)win vs Juan Quintana (1992)win vs Greg Santos (1992)win vs Ed Carlson (1992)win vs Cedric Sims (1992)win vs John Basil Jackson (1992)win vs Danny Wofford (1993)win vs Tim Noble (1993)win vs Danny Blake (1993)win vs Bruce Johnson (1993)win vs Ron Gullette (1993)win vs Mike Faulkner (1994)win vs Mark Young (1994)win vs Exum Speight (1994)win vs Jimmy Ellis (1994)win vs Calvin Jones (1995)win vs Sherman Griffin (1995)win vs Will Hinton (1995)win vs Marion Wilson (1995)win vs Craig Payne (1995)win vs Tim Ray (1996)loss vs Darroll Wilson (1996)win vs George Foreman (1997)win vs Jorge Valdes (1997)win vs Melton Bowen (1997)win vs Eric French (1997)win vs Marcus Rhode (1998)loss vs Lennox Lewis (1998)draw vs Francois Botha (1999)win vs Eric Curry (2000)loss vs Sedreck Fields (2000)win vs Warren Williams (2000)win vs Reynaldo Minus (2001)win vs Jason Waller (2001)win vs Russell Chasteen (2001)loss vs Jameel McCline (2002)win vs Wade Lewis (2003)win vs John Sargent (2003)win vs Marvin Hill (2003)win vs Jeff Pegues (2004)win vs Luciano Zolyone (2005)win vs Brian Scott (2005)win vs Ray Mercer (2005)win vs Abraham Okine (2005)win vs Demetrice King (2005)win vs Siarhei Liakhovich (2006)win vs Chris Koval (2006)win vs Dicky Ryan (2006)loss vs Sultan Ibragimov (2007)? vs Marcus McGee (2009)loss vs Vitali Klitschko (2010)win vs Rob Calloway (2010)win vs Dominique Alexander (2010)win vs Rafael Pedro (2010)win vs Richard Carmack (2014)win vs Cory Phelps (2014)win vs Raphael Zumbano Love (2014)win vs Matthew Greer (2014)win vs Francisco Mireles (2014)win vs Maurenzo Smith (2014)win vs Michael Marrone (2015)win vs Zoltan Petranyi (2015)win vs Emilio Zarate (2016)
winlossdraw / NC1992–2016

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