What is Freddie Steele's record?

125–5–11 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 120 bouts individually.

How many of Freddie Steele's bouts have no date?

1 of 120. 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.

Freddie Steele — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

125–5–11

Freddie Steele has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, average for middleweight boxing and the 53rd percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1926–1941 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Freddie Steele — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

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 2026-07-14. 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 123 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

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
1941	L	Jimmy Casino	KO/TKO	5
1938	L	Al Hostak	KO/TKO	1
1938	W	Solly Krieger	Decision	10
1938	W	Carmen Barth	KO/TKO	7
1938	W	Bob Turner	KO/TKO	1
1938	L	Fred Apostoli	KO/TKO	9
1937	W	Ken Overlin	KO/TKO	4
1937	W	Charley Williams	KO/TKO	8
1937	W	Frank Battaglia	KO/TKO	3
1937	W	Paul Pirrone	KO/TKO	1
1937	W	Eddie Babe Risko	Decision	15
1937	W	Gorilla Jones	Decision	10
1936	W	Young Stuhley	Decision	10
1936	W	Al Rossi	KO/TKO	1
1936	W	Gus Lesnevich	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Allen Matthews	Decision	10
1936	W	Jackie Aldare	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Eddie Babe Risko	Decision	15
1936	W	Tony Fisher	Decision	10
1936	W	Henry Firpo	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Meyer Grace	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Young Stuhley	Decision	10
1935	W	Mike Payan	KO/TKO	5
1935	W	Swede Berglund	KO/TKO	6
1935	W	Gorilla Jones	Decision	10
1935	W	Vince Dundee	KO/TKO	3
1935	W	Al Rossi	KO/TKO	2
1935	W	Sammy O'Dell	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Fred Apostoli	KO/TKO	10
1935	W	Indian Jimmy Rivers	KO/TKO	9
1935	W	Baby Joe Gans	KO/TKO	3
1935	W	Tommy Rios	Decision	10
1934	W	Andy DiVodi	KO/TKO	6
1934	W	Jack Hibbard	KO/TKO	4
1934	W	Jimmy Evans	KO/TKO	4
1934	W	Joe Glick	KO/TKO	1
1934	W	Bucky Lawless	KO/TKO	2
1934	?	Sammy Slaughter	—	1
1934	W	Babe Marino	Decision	10
1934	D	Gorilla Jones	Decision	10
1934	W	Joe Cardoza	KO/TKO	2
1934	W	Eddie Murdock	KO/TKO	4
1934	W	Vivencio Alicante	KO/TKO	2
1934	W	Johnny Romero	KO/TKO	2
1934	W	Leonard Bennett	Decision	8
1933	W	Petey Mike	Decision	10
1933	W	Frankie Petrolle	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Eddie Ran	Decision	6
1933	W	Joe Glick	Decision	8
1933	W	Alvin Lewis	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Tiger Lee Paige	Decision	6
1933	W	Gilbert Attell	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Leonard Bennett	Decision	6
1932	W	Battling Dozier	Decision	6
1932	W	Millio Millitti	Decision	6
1932	W	Tommy Herman	Decision	6
1932	W	Ceferino Garcia	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	David Velasco	Decision	6
1932	W	Billy Townsend	Decision	6
1932	W	Alfonso Gonzales	Decision	6

Showing 60 of 120 recorded bouts, most recent first.

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Freddie Steele — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.87%

72″ reach on a 70″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	72″ (182.9 cm)	48th pct
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)	45th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 92 of 119 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

125–5

142 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 27th percentile

By knockout 48%
By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

120 recorded bouts from 1926 to 1941. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1926–1941

Career span

16y

1926–1941

Longest unbeaten run

83

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1932

15 bouts

Recorded bouts

120

119 with a date

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Freddie Steele's record?: 125–5–11 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 120 bouts individually.
How many of Freddie Steele's bouts have no date?: 1 of 120. 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 Steele sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

92 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Freddie Steele went 83 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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