Jack Britton
70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 56th percentile
237–60–43
Jack Britton has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, above average for welterweight boxing and the 56th percentile of the 130 compared here.
SOURCE·Jack Britton — 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 130 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | L | Rudy Marshall | Decision | 10 |
| 1930 | W | Bobby Ruffalo | Decision | 8 |
| 1930 | W | Alf Schell | Decision | 10 |
| 1930 | W | Ralph Hood | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | L | Farmer Joe Cooper | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | L | Sam Bruce | Decision | 6 |
| 1929 | L | Elmer Bezenah | — | 6 |
| 1929 | D | Frankie Palmo | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | L | Johnny Roberts | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | D | George Gibbons | Decision | 6 |
| 1929 | L | Henry Firpo | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | L | Morrie Sherman | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | L | Ham Jenkins | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Patsy Pollock | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Billy Brown | Decision | 12 |
| 1929 | L | James Red Herring | Decision | 8 |
| 1929 | W | Tot Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Grover Mallini | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Ted Goodrich | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Spike Webb | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Cliff Wellons | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Canada Lee | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | L | Frankie O'Brien | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Larry Brignolia | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Danny Sears | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Pete Provencher | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Meyer Cohen | Decision | 12 |
| 1928 | W | Laddie Lee | — | 12 |
| 1928 | W | Jimmy McGonnigle | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Pete Pacheco | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Mickey Sears | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | L | Pal Silvers | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Tony Vaccarelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Tommy Dunn | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Harry Felix | Decision | 8 |
| 1928 | N | Floyd Hybert | — | 5 |
| 1927 | D | Jimmy Jones | Draw | 10 |
| 1927 | L | Hilario Martinez | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Joey Knapp | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Tommy Jordan | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Georgie Levine | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | L | Bermondsey Billy Wells | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Arthur Schaekels | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Barney Adair | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Colin McLachin | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Dave Forbes | — | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Harry Ritzer | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Roy Moore | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | D | Ted Krache | Decision | 6 |
| 1925 | L | Morrie Schlaifer | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | L | Bermondsey Billy Wells | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Izzy Tanner | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Norman Genet | Decision | 8 |
| 1924 | W | Sailor Billy Vincent | Decision | 4 |
| 1924 | L | Oakland Jimmy Duffy | Decision | 4 |
| 1924 | W | Phil Krug | — | 10 |
| 1924 | L | Phil Kaplan | — | 10 |
| 1924 | L | Jack Rappaport | — | 10 |
| 1924 | D | Johnny Karr | Draw | 10 |
| 1924 | W | Fred Archer | — | 10 |
Showing 60 of 310 recorded bouts, most recent first.
31 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jack Britton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.95%
70″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 44th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 148 of 309 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
237–60
345 bouts on record
Finish rate
13%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 5th percentile
The career, bout by bout
310 recorded bouts from 1904 to 1930. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
27y
1904–1930
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1920
22 bouts
Recorded bouts
310
309 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Gene Hatcher+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- Eamonn Magee+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- José Félix Jr.+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- Saoul Mamby+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- José Luis López+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- Robert Guerrero+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- Paulie Malignaggi+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
- Micky Ward+2.95% 70″ reach · 56th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jack Britton's record?
- 237–60–43 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 310 bouts individually.
- How many of Jack Britton's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 310. 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 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Britton sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing148 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
48 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJack Britton went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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