What is Ezzard Charles's record?

95–25–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 109 bouts individually.

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.

Ezzard Charles — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

95–25–1

Ezzard Charles has a reach of 73″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +1.37%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 25th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1940–1959

SOURCE·Ezzard Charles — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

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 2026-07-10. 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 317 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
1959	L	Alvin Green	Decision	10
1959	L	George Logan	KO/TKO	8
1959	W	Dave Ashley	KO/TKO	9
1958	L	Donnie Fleeman	KO/TKO	6
1958	L	Alfredo Zuany	Decision	10
1958	W	Johnny Harper	Decision	10
1956	L	Dick Richardson	—	2
1956	L	Harry Matthews	Decision	10
1956	L	Pat McMurtry	Decision	10
1956	W	Bob Albright	KO/TKO	6
1956	L	Wayne Bethea	Decision	10
1956	W	Don Jasper	KO/TKO	9
1955	L	Young Jack Johnson	KO/TKO	6
1955	W	Bob Albright	Decision	10
1955	W	Toxie Hall	Decision	10
1955	L	Tommy Jackson	Decision	10
1955	W	Paul Andrews	Decision	10
1955	W	John Holman	Decision	10
1955	W	Vern Escoe	KO/TKO	3
1955	W	Charley Norkus	Decision	10
1954	L	Rocky Marciano	KO/TKO	8
1954	W	Bob Satterfield	KO/TKO	2
1953	W	Coley Wallace	KO/TKO	10
1953	L	Harold Johnson	Decision	10
1953	L	Niño Valdés	Decision	10
1953	W	Larry Watson	KO/TKO	5
1953	W	Billy Gilliam	Decision	10
1953	W	Rex Layne	Decision	10
1953	W	Tommy Harrison	KO/TKO	9
1953	W	Wes Bascom	KO/TKO	9
1952	W	Frank Buford	KO/TKO	7
1952	W	Jimmy Bivins	Decision	10
1952	W	Cesar Brion	Decision	10
1952	W	Bernie Reynolds	KO/TKO	2
1952	L	Rex Layne	Decision	10
1952	L	Jersey Joe Walcott	Decision	15
1951	W	Joe Kahut	KO/TKO	8
1951	W	Joey Maxim	Decision	12
1951	W	Rex Layne	KO/TKO	11
1951	L	Jersey Joe Walcott	KO/TKO	7
1951	W	Lee Oma	KO/TKO	10
1950	W	Nick Barone	KO/TKO	11
1950	W	Joe Louis	Decision	15
1950	W	Freddie Beshore	KO/TKO	14
1949	W	Pat Valentino	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	Gus Lesnevich	—	7
1949	W	Jersey Joe Walcott	Decision	15
1949	W	Joey Maxim	Decision	15
1949	W	Johnny Haynes	KO/TKO	8
1948	W	Joe Baksi	KO/TKO	11
1948	W	Walter Hafer	KO/TKO	7
1948	W	Jimmy Bivins	Decision	10
1948	W	Erv Sarlin	Decision	10
1948	W	Elmer Ray	KO/TKO	9
1948	W	Sam Baroudi	KO/TKO	10
1948	W	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	8
1947	W	Fitzie Fitzpatrick	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Teddy Randolph	Decision	10
1947	W	Clarence Jones	KO/TKO	1
1947	W	Al Smith	KO/TKO	4

Showing 60 of 109 recorded bouts, most recent first.

34 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ezzard Charles — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.37%

73″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	73″ (185.4 cm)	12th pct
Height	72″ (182.9 cm)	17th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1940s — 65 of 109 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

95–25

121 bouts on record

Finish rate

55%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 25th percentile

By knockout 55%
By decision 45%

The career, bout by bout

109 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1959. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1940–1959

Career span

20y

1940–1959

Longest unbeaten run

22

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1947

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

109

109 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ezzard Charles's record?: 95–25–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 109 bouts individually.
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

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Charles sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

65 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Ezzard Charles vs Teddy Yarosz

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

1941 Longest unbeaten runs

Ezzard Charles went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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