George Godfrey
79.5″ reach · +5.98% reach advantage · 76th percentile
97–21–2
George Godfrey has a reach of 79.5″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +5.98%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 76th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·George Godfrey (boxer, born 1897) — 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 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | L | Hank Hankinson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Billy Wells | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1935 | W | Pierre Charles | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | L | Motzi Spakow | DQ | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Dumitru Pavelescu | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1934 | W | Piet van Gool | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Arthur Meurant | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1934 | W | Hans Schonrath | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1934 | N | Mauro Galusso | — | 3 |
| 1934 | W | Giacomo Bergomas | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1934 | N | Andres Castano | — | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Valentin Campolo | Decision | 10 |
| 1933 | L | Obie Walker | Decision | 10 |
| 1933 | N | Bearcat Wright | — | 6 |
| 1933 | W | Tiger Jack Fox | Decision | 10 |
| 1932 | L | Walter Cobb | Decision | 10 |
| 1932 | W | Al Fay | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1932 | W | Roy Clark | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1932 | W | Gene Stanton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1932 | W | K.O. Willis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1932 | W | Texas Tanner | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1932 | W | Billy Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1932 | W | Kid Moran | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1932 | W | Harry Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1932 | W | K.O. Harper | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1932 | W | Flash Ryser | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1931 | L | Jack Gross | Decision | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Seal Harris | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1931 | W | George Gemas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1931 | W | Ricardo Rosel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1931 | W | Salvatore Ruggirello | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | D | Bearcat Wright | Decision | 10 |
| 1930 | W | Seal Harris | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1930 | W | Jack Leslie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1930 | W | Arthur De Kuh | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1930 | W | Elijah Lee | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1930 | W | Frankie Simms | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1930 | L | Primo Carnera | DQ | 5 |
| 1930 | W | Jack Rozier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | W | Roy Clark | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1930 | W | Jack Gross | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1929 | W | Tom Hawkins | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1929 | N | Jimmy Byrne | — | 7 |
| 1929 | L | Long Tom Hawkins | DQ | 3 |
| 1929 | W | Ralph Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1929 | W | Chuck Wiggins | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1929 | W | Farmer Lodge | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1929 | W | Bill Hartwell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1929 | W | Francisco Cruz Coelho | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1929 | L | Al Walker | DQ | 3 |
| 1928 | W | Jim Sigman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1928 | W | Clem Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1928 | W | Bud Gorman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1928 | W | Benny Hill | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1928 | W | Pierre Charles | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1928 | W | Tut Jackson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1928 | L | Larry Gains | DQ | 3 |
| 1928 | L | Johnny Risko | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Paulino Uzcudun | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Joe White | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing 60 of 121 recorded bouts, most recent first.
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·George Godfrey (boxer, born 1897) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.98%
79.5″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 79.5″ (201.9 cm) | 67th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1920s — 78 of 120 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
97–21
124 bouts on record
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 80th percentile
The career, bout by bout
121 recorded bouts from 1919 to 1937. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1919–1937
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1927
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
121
120 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Duncan Dokiwari+5.96% 80.5″ reach · 75th pct
- Julius Lloyd-Long+6.02% 90.2″ reach · 76th pct
- John L. Sullivan+5.74% 74″ reach · 75th pct
- Archie Moore+5.66% 75″ reach · 75th pct
- Gary Cornish+6.33% 84″ reach · 76th pct
- Tony Tubbs+5.63% 79″ reach · 74th pct
- Sam McVey+6.37% 75″ reach · 77th pct
- Carlos Negrón+6.41% 83″ reach · 77th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is George Godfrey's record?
- 97–21–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 121 bouts individually.
- How many of George Godfrey's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 121. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Godfrey sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing78 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
53 FIGHTERS George Godfrey vs Primo CarneraA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1930 Longest unbeaten runsGeorge Godfrey went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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