Gus Lesnevich
72.8″ reach · +5.53% reach advantage · 81st percentile
61–14–5
Gus Lesnevich has a reach of 72.8″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +5.53%, long for light heavyweight boxing and the 81st percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Gus Lesnevich — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
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 2026-08-02. 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 98 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | L | Ezzard Charles | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1949 | L | Joey Maxim | Decision | 15 |
| 1949 | W | Eldridge Eatman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | L | Freddie Mills | Decision | 15 |
| 1948 | W | Billy Fox | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1947 | W | Tami Mauriello | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1947 | W | Melio Bettina | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1947 | W | Billy Fox | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1946 | L | Bruce Woodcock | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1946 | W | Freddie Mills | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1946 | L | Lee Oma | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1946 | W | Joe Kahut | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1942 | L | Jimmy Bivins | Decision | 10 |
| 1942 | L | Bob Pastor | Decision | 15 |
| 1941 | W | Tami Mauriello | Decision | 15 |
| 1941 | W | Anton Christoforidis | Decision | 15 |
| 1941 | W | Nathan Mann | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Jack Marshall | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1940 | L | Al Delaney | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Henry Cooper | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1940 | W | Wally Sears | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | L | Billy Conn | Decision | 15 |
| 1940 | W | Dave Clark | Decision | 10 |
| 1939 | L | Billy Conn | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Dave Clark | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1939 | W | Larry Lane | Decision | 10 |
| 1939 | W | Bob Olin | Decision | 12 |
| 1939 | W | Alabama Kid | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1938 | W | Ambrose Palmer | Decision | 12 |
| 1938 | L | Ron Richards | Decision | 15 |
| 1938 | W | Stanley Hasrato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | W | Buddy Ryan | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Lou Brouillard | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Jack Kirkland | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | W | Ben Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | D | Joey Parks | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Herbie Katz | Decision | 8 |
| 1937 | D | Allen Matthews | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Alabama Kid | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Atilio Sabatino | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Young Stuhley | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Johnny Romero | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1937 | L | Young Corbett III | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1937 | W | Tony Celli | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | L | Freddie Steele | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Young Stuhley | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1936 | D | Marty Simmons | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Carmen Barth | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Ray Actis | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Louie Rogers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Johnny Sikes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Sammy Christian | Decision | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Frankie Caris | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Billy Hood | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Eddie Whalen | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1935 | W | Butch Lynch | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Frank LoBianco | Decision | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Tony Celli | Decision | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Tom Chester | Decision | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Jimmy Varrelli | Decision | 8 |
Showing 60 of 76 recorded bouts, most recent first.
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Gus Lesnevich — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.53%
72.8″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 72.8″ (185 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 9th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 52 of 75 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
61–14
80 bouts on record
Finish rate
38%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
76 recorded bouts from 1934 to 1949. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1934–1949
Longest unbeaten run
19
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1934
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
76
75 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Joe Smith Jr.+5.52% 76″ reach · 80th pct
- David Morrell Jr.+5.5% 77″ reach · 77th pct
- Vicente Rondón+5.5% 77″ reach · 77th pct
- Victor Cordoba+5.5% 77″ reach · 77th pct
- Tiger Jack Fox+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Matthew Saad Muhammad+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Julius Jackson+5.37% 78″ reach · 76th pct
- Kid Norfolk+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Gus Lesnevich's record?
- 61–14–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 76 bouts individually.
- How many of Gus Lesnevich's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 76. 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 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lesnevich sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing52 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsGus Lesnevich went 19 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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