What is Bobo Olson's record?

97–16–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 109 bouts individually.

How many of Bobo Olson's bouts have no date?

1 of 109. 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.

Bobo Olson — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

97–16–2

Bobo Olson finished 48% of 97 wins inside the distance — the 29th percentile for middleweight boxing, where the median is 60%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1944–1966 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Bobo Olson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

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 2026-07-07. 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 256 middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1966	L	Don Fullmer	Decision	10
1966	W	Piero Del Papa	Decision	10
1965	W	Fred Roots	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	Andy Kendall	Decision	10
1964	L	José Torres	KO/TKO	1
1964	W	Wayne Thornton	Decision	10
1964	L	Johnny Persol	Decision	10
1963	D	Hank Casey	Decision	10
1963	W	Jose Menno	Decision	10
1963	W	Jesse Bowdry	Decision	10
1963	W	Sonny Ray	KO/TKO	7
1963	W	Tiger Al Williams	KO/TKO	5
1962	D	Giulio Rinaldi	Decision	10
1962	W	Lennart Risberg	KO/TKO	6
1962	L	Pete Rademacher	Decision	10
1962	W	Artie Dixon	Decision	10
1962	W	Tiger Al Williams	Decision	10
1961	W	Roy Smith	KO/TKO	8
1961	W	Sixto Rodriguez	Decision	10
1961	W	Roque Maravilla	Decision	10
1961	W	Floyd Buchanan	KO/TKO	3
1961	W	Bobby Daniels	Decision	10
1960	L	Doug Jones	KO/TKO	6
1960	W	Mike Holt	Decision	10
1960	W	Al Sparks	KO/TKO	5
1960	W	Roque Maravilla	KO/TKO	7
1959	W	George Kartalian	KO/TKO	5
1959	W	Rory Calhoun	Decision	10
1958	W	Tommy Villa	KO/TKO	5
1958	W	Paddy Young	KO/TKO	6
1958	W	Don Grant	KO/TKO	7
1957	L	Pat McMurtry	KO/TKO	2
1957	W	Joey Maxim	Decision	10
1956	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	KO/TKO	4
1955	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	KO/TKO	2
1955	W	Joey Giambra	Decision	10
1955	W	Jimmy Martinez	Decision	10
1955	L	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	3
1955	W	Joey Maxim	Decision	10
1955	W	Willie Vaughn	Decision	10
1955	W	Ralph Jones	Decision	10
1954	W	Pierre Langlois	KO/TKO	11
1954	W	Garth Panter	KO/TKO	8
1954	W	Rocky Castellani	Decision	15
1954	W	Pedro Gonzales	KO/TKO	4
1954	W	Jesse Turner	KO/TKO	8
1954	W	Kid Gavilan	Decision	15
1954	W	Joe Rindone	KO/TKO	5
1953	W	Randy Turpin	Decision	15
1953	W	Paddy Young	Decision	15
1953	W	Garth Panter	Decision	10
1953	W	Norman Hayes	Decision	10
1952	W	Norman Hayes	Decision	10
1952	W	Lee Sala	KO/TKO	2
1952	W	Gene Hairston	KO/TKO	6
1952	W	Robert Villemain	Decision	10
1952	W	Jimmy Beau	Decision	10
1952	W	Walter Cartier	KO/TKO	5
1952	W	Woody Harper	KO/TKO	7
1952	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15

Showing 60 of 109 recorded bouts, most recent first.

17 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Bobo Olson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1950s — 47 of 108 dated bouts
Country	United States

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

winlossdraw / NC1944–1966

Record

Boxing record

97–16

115 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 29th percentile

By knockout 48%
By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

109 recorded bouts from 1944 to 1966. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

23y

1944–1966

Longest unbeaten run

18

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1946

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

109

108 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Bobo Olson's record?: 97–16–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 109 bouts individually.
How many of Bobo Olson's bouts have no date?: 1 of 109. 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

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Olson sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

47 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

49 FIGHTERS Bobo Olson vs Pete Rademacher

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

1962 Longest unbeaten runs

Bobo Olson went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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