Fernando Vargas
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 83rd percentile
26–5
Fernando Vargas has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, long for super middleweight boxing and the 83rd percentile of the 75 compared here.
SOURCE·Fernando Vargas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23
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 2026-07-23. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — 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 75 super middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | L | Ricardo Mayorga | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | L | Shane Mosley | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Javier Castillejo | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | W | Raymond Joval | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | W | Tony Marshall | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2003 | W | Fitz Vanderpool | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | L | Oscar De La Hoya | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2001 | W | Jose Flores | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2001 | W | Wilfredo Rivera | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | L | Félix Trinidad | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Ross Thompson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Ike Quartey | — | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Winky Wright | — | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Raúl Márquez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1999 | W | Howard Clarke | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Yori Boy Campas | — | 7 |
| 1998 | W | Darren Maciunski | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Anthony Stephens | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1998 | W | Ron Johnson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Romallis Ellis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Dan Connolly | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Eduardo Martinez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Jose Miguel Fernandez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Alex Quiroga | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Kevin Payne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Eugene Lopez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Jim Maloney | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Bill Burden | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Claude Staten | — | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Jorge Morales | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
10 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Fernando Vargas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.74%
74″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 75 super middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 64th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 30th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Super Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: light middleweight, super middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 18 of 30 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
26–5
31 bouts on record
Finish rate
85%
of wins ended inside the distance — super middleweight boxing median 61%, 94th percentile
The career, bout by bout
31 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
11y
1997–2007
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
31
30 with a date
Closest in build
super middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Julio César Green+5.74% 74″ reach · 83rd pct
- Vincent Feigenbutz+5.74% 74″ reach · 83rd pct
- Nigel Benn+5.76% 73″ reach · 87th pct
- Marco Antonio Peribán+5.82% 78.7″ reach · 88th pct
- Franchón Crews-Dezurn+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Lindell Holmes+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Christian M'billi+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Armand Krajnc+5.52% 75.2″ reach · 80th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Fernando Vargas's record?
- 26–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 31 bouts individually.
- How many of Fernando Vargas's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 31. 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.
Where this record leads
The 164 super middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Vargas sits inside.
164 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing18 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsFernando Vargas went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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