BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional and amateur boxers, both male and female.

The objective of the site is to document every professional boxer and boxing match from the instigation of the Queensberry Rules up to the present times.

Sheppard had considered boxing to be a "barbaric and degrading" spectacle, stating "I sat there watching people punch each other in the head, wondering why they were doing it...

As of December 2008,[update] on a typical day 50,000 visitors could view 700,000 pages with the record of 1,300,000 bouts in its database encompassing 17,000 active and 345,000 non-active fighters.

[2] In 2005, BoxRec applied to become recognized as the official record keepers for the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC).

Each applicant made a submission and presentation to the ABC panel which included state commissioners and attorneys.

"[2] Boxing journalist Thomas Hauser also asked the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission Ron Scott Stevens what his thoughts were, and Stevens was quoted as saying "Fight Fax is the mandated record-keeper for athletic commissions in the United States.