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Frank Erne

68″ reach · +2.25% reach advantage · 40th percentile

Boxing record

31–6–16

Frank Erne has a reach of 68″ against a height of 66.5″ — a reach advantage of +2.25%, short for lightweight boxing and the 40th percentile of the 120 compared here.

18901900UNFILEDwin v John Roy, 1892, kowin v James McCarthy, 1892, decisionwin v Skip Krieger, 1893, decisiondraw v Joe Diebold, 1893, decisiondraw v Solly Smith, 1894, decisionwin v Alec Sloan, 1894, decisiondraw v George Siddons, 1894, decisionwin v Dan Maloney, 1894, kowin v Pat Schultz, 1894, decisiondraw v Tommy Dixon, 1894, decisionwin v Hymie Goldstein, 1894, decisionwin v Fred Warner, 1894, decisionwin v Walter Campbell, 1894, kodraw v Tommy Kennedy, 1894, decisiondraw v John L Sullivan, 1894, decisiondraw v Young Griffo, 1895, decisiondraw v George Dixon, 1895, decisionwin v Jack Skelly, 1895, kowin v Joe Craig, 1895, kowin v Pat Perry, 1895, decisionwin v Joe Leonard, 1895, kowin v George Dixon, 1896, decisiondraw v Jack Downey, 1896, decisionwin v Larry Burns, 1896, kodraw v Jack Downey, 1897, decisiondraw v Jim Popp, 1897, decisionwin v Larry Becker, 1897, kowin v Joe Hopkins, 1897, koloss v George Dixon, 1897, decisionloss v Martin Flaherty, 1897, decisiondraw v George Kid Lavigne, 1898, decisionwin v Harry Lemons, 1898, decisiondraw v New York Jack O'Brien, 1899, decisionwin v George Kid Lavigne, 1899, decisionwin v George "Elbows" McFadden, 1899, decisionwin v Dal Hawkins, 1899, kodraw v Tom Couhig, 1900, decisionloss v Terry McGovern, 1900, kowin v Joe Gans, 1900, kowin v Chicago Jack Daly, 1900, decisionloss v Rube Ferns, 1901, koloss v Jimmy Britt, 1902, kowin v Jim Maloney, 1902, koloss v Joe Gans, 1902, kowin v Gus Gardner, 1902, decisionwin v Curley Supples, 1902, kowin v Warren Zurbrick, 1903, dqwin v Curly Watson, 1908, decisionresult not stated v Opponent, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1892–1908 · 1 UNDATED

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

How this record is compiled

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 120 lightweight 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
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1908 W Curly Watson Decision10
1903 W Warren Zurbrick DQ10
1902 L Jimmy Britt KO/TKO7
1902 W Jim Maloney KO/TKO7
1902 L Joe Gans KO/TKO1
1902 W Gus Gardner Decision6
1902 W Curley Supples KO/TKO6
1901 L Rube Ferns KO/TKO9
1900 D Tom Couhig Decision6
1900 L Terry McGovern KO/TKO3
1900 W Joe Gans KO/TKO12
1900 W Chicago Jack Daly Decision6
1899 D New York Jack O'Brien Decision25
1899 W George Kid Lavigne Decision20
1899 W George "Elbows" McFadden Decision25
1899 W Dal Hawkins KO/TKO7
1898 D George Kid Lavigne Decision20
1898 W Harry Lemons Decision20
1897 D Jack Downey Decision20
1897 D Jim Popp Decision20
1897 W Larry Becker KO/TKO5
1897 W Joe Hopkins KO/TKO19
1897 L George Dixon Decision25
1897 L Martin Flaherty Decision20
1896 W George Dixon Decision20
1896 D Jack Downey Decision12
1896 W Larry Burns KO/TKO5
1895 D Young Griffo Decision4
1895 D George Dixon Decision10
1895 W Jack Skelly KO/TKO9
1895 W Joe Craig KO/TKO3
1895 W Pat Perry Decision4
1895 W Joe Leonard KO/TKO2
1894 D Solly Smith Decision10
1894 W Alec Sloan Decision4
1894 D George Siddons Decision10
1894 W Dan Maloney KO/TKO1
1894 W Pat Schultz Decision4
1894 D Tommy Dixon Decision4
1894 W Hymie Goldstein Decision4
1894 W Fred Warner Decision4
1894 W Walter Campbell KO/TKO3
1894 D Tommy Kennedy Decision4
1894 D John L Sullivan Decision2
1893 W Skip Krieger Decision3
1893 D Joe Diebold Decision23
1892 W John Roy KO/TKO4
1892 W James McCarthy Decision6
undated ? Opponent ——

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.25%

68″ reach on a 66.5″ frame

Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach68″ (172.7 cm)27th pct
Height66.5″ (168.9 cm)41st pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight Boxing
competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade1890s — 36 of 48 dated bouts
CountrySwitzerland

Record

Boxing record

31–6

53 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 44th percentile

By knockout: 15 (48%)By decision: 16 (52%)
  • By knockout 48%
  • By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

49 recorded bouts from 1892 to 1908. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

1900 win vs John Roy (1892)win vs James McCarthy (1892)win vs Skip Krieger (1893)draw vs Joe Diebold (1893)draw vs Solly Smith (1894)win vs Alec Sloan (1894)draw vs George Siddons (1894)win vs Dan Maloney (1894)win vs Pat Schultz (1894)draw vs Tommy Dixon (1894)win vs Hymie Goldstein (1894)win vs Fred Warner (1894)win vs Walter Campbell (1894)draw vs Tommy Kennedy (1894)draw vs John L Sullivan (1894)draw vs Young Griffo (1895)draw vs George Dixon (1895)win vs Jack Skelly (1895)win vs Joe Craig (1895)win vs Pat Perry (1895)win vs Joe Leonard (1895)win vs George Dixon (1896)draw vs Jack Downey (1896)win vs Larry Burns (1896)draw vs Jack Downey (1897)draw vs Jim Popp (1897)win vs Larry Becker (1897)win vs Joe Hopkins (1897)loss vs George Dixon (1897)loss vs Martin Flaherty (1897)draw vs George Kid Lavigne (1898)win vs Harry Lemons (1898)draw vs New York Jack O'Brien (1899)win vs George Kid Lavigne (1899)win vs George "Elbows" McFadden (1899)win vs Dal Hawkins (1899)draw vs Tom Couhig (1900)loss vs Terry McGovern (1900)win vs Joe Gans (1900)win vs Chicago Jack Daly (1900)loss vs Rube Ferns (1901)loss vs Jimmy Britt (1902)win vs Jim Maloney (1902)loss vs Joe Gans (1902)win vs Gus Gardner (1902)win vs Curley Supples (1902)win vs Warren Zurbrick (1903)win vs Curly Watson (1908)
winlossdraw / NC1892–1908

Career span

17y

1892–1908

Longest unbeaten run

17

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1894

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

49

48 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Frank Erne's record?
31–6–16 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 bouts individually.
How many of Frank Erne's bouts have no date?
1 of 49. 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.

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