Jack Dempsey
73″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
68–6–10
Jack Dempsey has a reach of 73″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Jack Dempsey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
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 2026-07-27. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | L | Gene Tunney | Decision | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Jack Sharkey | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1926 | L | Gene Tunney | — | 10 |
| 1923 | W | Luis Ángel Firpo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1923 | W | Tommy Gibbons | Decision | 15 |
| 1921 | W | Georges Carpentier | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1920 | W | Bill Brennan | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1920 | W | Billy Miske | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1919 | W | Jess Willard | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1919 | W | Tony Drake | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1919 | W | Eddie Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1919 | W | Kid Harris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1919 | W | Big Jack Hickey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1919 | W | Jack Maguire | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Gunboat Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1918 | W | Carl Morris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Billy Miske | — | 6 |
| 1918 | W | Dan Flynn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Battling Levinsky | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1918 | W | Jack Moran | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | L | Willie Meehan | Decision | 4 |
| 1918 | W | Terry Kellar | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1918 | W | Fred Fulton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Bob Devere | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Tom McCarty | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Arthur Pelkey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Dan Ketchell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1918 | W | Tom Riley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Fred Saddy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Bill Brennan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1918 | W | Fireman Jim Flynn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1918 | W | Homer Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1917 | W | Carl Morris | Decision | 4 |
| 1917 | W | Gunboat Smith | Decision | 4 |
| 1917 | W | Bob McAllister | Decision | 4 |
| 1917 | W | Charley Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1917 | W | Willie Meehan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1917 | W | Al Norton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1917 | L | Fireman Jim Flynn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1916 | W | Young Hector | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1916 | W | Dick Gilbert | Decision | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Terry Kellar | Decision | 10 |
| 1916 | D | John Lester Johnson | Draw | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Bert Kenny | — | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Andre Anderson | — | 10 |
| 1916 | W | Bob York | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1916 | W | Dan Ketchell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1916 | W | Joe Bonds | Decision | 10 |
| 1916 | W | George Christian | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1916 | W | Cyril Kohen | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1916 | W | Boston Bearcat | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1916 | W | Jack Downey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1916 | W | Swede Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1916 | W | Johnny Sudenberg | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1915 | W | Jack Gillian | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1915 | D | Jack Downey | Decision | 4 |
| 1915 | W | George Coplen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1915 | W | Andy Malloy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1915 | W | Fred Woods | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1915 | D | Johnny Sudenberg | Decision | 10 |
Showing 60 of 69 recorded bouts, most recent first.
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jack Dempsey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
73″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 12th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1910s — 61 of 69 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
68–6
84 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 73rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
69 recorded bouts from 1914 to 1927. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1914–1927
Longest unbeaten run
31
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1918
18 bouts
Recorded bouts
69
69 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jack Dempsey's record?
- 68–6–10 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 69 bouts individually.
- 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 Dempsey sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing61 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
48 FIGHTERS Jack Dempsey vs Jess WillardA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1919 Longest unbeaten runsJack Dempsey went 31 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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