What is Battling Levinsky's record?

196–55–38 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 238 bouts individually.

How many of Battling Levinsky's bouts have no date?

1 of 238. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Battling Levinsky — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

196–55–38

Battling Levinsky has a reach of 70″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of -1.39%, unusually short for light heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1916–1930 · EARLIEST 117 NOT SHOWN · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Battling Levinsky — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-06. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1930	W	Joe Sims	KO/TKO	3
1929	L	Herman Weiner	KO/TKO	1
1929	L	Otto von Porat	KO/TKO	5
1929	W	Pietro Corri	Decision	10
1928	L	Marty Gallagher	Decision	12
1928	D	Tom Toner	Decision	8
1928	W	Bill Daring	Decision	8
1928	W	Pietro Corri	Decision	8
1928	W	Herman Weiner	Decision	8
1928	W	Billy Henderson	—	6
1928	L	Tony Youkonis	Decision	10
1928	L	Phil Mercurio	—	10
1928	W	Chuck Wiggins	DQ	5
1928	W	Tex McEwan	DQ	4
1928	L	Emmett Rocco	Decision	10
1928	W	Benny Ross	Decision	10
1928	W	Clem Johnson	Decision	8
1928	W	Jim Sigman	Decision	10
1928	L	Jack McAuliffe II	—	10
1928	D	Tiny Roebuck	Draw	10
1928	W	James Jay Lawless	Decision	10
1928	W	K.O. Samson	KO/TKO	2
1928	L	Jack Gagnon	Decision	10
1928	W	Earl Blue	Decision	6
1928	W	Marcel DeRose	KO/TKO	2
1928	D	Sandy Seifert	Decision	10
1927	W	Joe Lohman	Decision	10
1927	W	Matt Adgie	Decision	10
1927	W	George Gemas	Decision	10
1927	W	Willie Walker	Decision	8
1927	W	Teddy Jackson	KO/TKO	4
1927	W	Clem Johnson	Decision	10
1927	L	Cuban Bobby Brown	—	8
1927	W	Ray Neuman	Decision	10
1926	L	Jack Gagnon	Decision	10
1926	W	Jimmy Moran	KO/TKO	1
1926	L	Young Stribling	—	10
1926	W	George Gemas	Decision	10
1926	W	Tommy Madden	KO/TKO	1
1922	L	Gene Tunney	Decision	12
1921	D	Bob Roper	Decision	12
1921	W	Mike McTigue	—	10
1921	W	Sergeant Ray Smith	—	10
1921	W	Eddie Ricord	—	10
1921	L	Carl E. Morris	DQ	6
1921	W	Soldier Jones	Decision	10
1921	W	Bill Reed	Decision	12
1921	W	Dan O'Dowd	Decision	12
1921	L	Charley Weinert	Decision	15
1921	W	Homer Smith	Decision	12
1920	L	Noel "Boy" McCormick	DQ	7
1920	L	Georges Carpentier	KO/TKO	4
1920	W	Sergeant Ray Smith	—	10
1920	D	Chuck Wiggins	Decision	12
1920	D	Jack Renault	Draw	12
1920	W	Clay Turner	—	12
1920	W	Tony Melchior	—	10
1920	W	Silas Green	—	10
1920	W	Al Benedict	—	8
1920	W	Johnny Howard	—	8

Showing 60 of 238 recorded bouts, most recent first.

35 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Battling Levinsky — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.39%

70″ reach on a 71″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	70″ (177.8 cm)	5th pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	28th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1910s — 176 of 237 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

196–55

289 bouts on record

Finish rate

15%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 3rd percentile

By knockout 15%
By decision 85%

The career, bout by bout

238 recorded bouts from 1910 to 1930. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1910–1930

Career span

21y

1910–1930

Longest unbeaten run

24

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1914

29 bouts

Recorded bouts

238

237 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Battling Levinsky's record?: 196–55–38 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 238 bouts individually.
How many of Battling Levinsky's bouts have no date?: 1 of 238. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Light heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Levinsky sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing

176 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

48 FIGHTERS Battling Levinsky vs Gene Tunney

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1922 Longest unbeaten runs

Battling Levinsky went 24 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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