Jersey Joe Walcott
74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 40th percentile
49–20–1
Jersey Joe Walcott has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 40th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Jersey Joe Walcott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26
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 2026-07-26. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | L | Rocky Marciano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1952 | L | Rocky Marciano | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1952 | W | Ezzard Charles | Decision | 15 |
| 1951 | W | Ezzard Charles | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1950 | L | Rex Layne | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Hein ten Hoff | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Johnny Shkor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1950 | W | Omelio Agramonte | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1950 | W | Harold Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1949 | W | Olle Tandberg | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1949 | L | Ezzard Charles | Decision | 15 |
| 1948 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1947 | L | Joe Louis | Decision | 15 |
| 1947 | W | Joey Maxim | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Elmer Ray | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | L | Elmer Ray | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | L | Joey Maxim | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Tommy Gómez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1946 | W | Lee Oma | — | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Al Blake | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1946 | W | Jimmy Bivins | — | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Johnny Allen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1945 | W | Curtis Sheppard | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1945 | W | Lee Q. Murray | DQ | 9 |
| 1945 | W | Steve Dudas | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1945 | W | Johnny Denson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1945 | W | Joe Baksi | Decision | 10 |
| 1945 | W | Johnny Allen | Decision | 8 |
| 1945 | W | Austin Johnson | Decision | 6 |
| 1945 | W | Jackie Saunders | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1944 | W | Ellis Singleton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1944 | W | Felix Del Paoli | Decision | 8 |
| 1940 | L | Abe Simon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1940 | W | Tiger 'Red' Lewis | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1939 | W | Curtis Sheppard | Decision | 8 |
| 1939 | W | Al Boros | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | W | Bob Tow | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | L | Roy Lazer | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | L | Tiger Jack Fox | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Lorenzo Pack | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1938 | W | Art Sykes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1938 | W | Jim Whitest | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | W | Freddie Fiducia | Decision | 8 |
| 1937 | L | George Brothers | Decision | 8 |
| 1937 | W | Elmer Ray | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1937 | W | Joe Lipps | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1937 | L | Tiger Jack Fox | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1936 | L | Billy Ketchell | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Phil Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Louis LePage | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Joe Colucci | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Willie Reddish | Decision | 8 |
| 1936 | L | Al Ettore | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Roxie Allen | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Al King | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Pat Roland | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Lew Alva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1933 | L | Henry Taylor | — | 6 |
| 1933 | W | Bob Norris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1931 | W | Carl Mays | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jersey Joe Walcott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.79%
74″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 15th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 17th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 30 of 64 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
49–20
70 bouts on record
Finish rate
63%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 40th percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 1930 to 1953. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1930–1953
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1945
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
64 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jack Johnson+2.79% 74″ reach · 40th pct
- Cliff Couser+2.83% 73″ reach · 41st pct
- Rubin Williams+2.75% 75″ reach · 39th pct
- Mike Mollo+2.75% 75″ reach · 39th pct
- Tommy Loughran+2.83% 73″ reach · 41st pct
- Henry Cooper+2.75% 75″ reach · 39th pct
- Marcelo Domínguez+2.85% 71″ reach · 42nd pct
- Tom Heeney+2.87% 72″ reach · 42nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jersey Joe Walcott's record?
- 49–20–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 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 Walcott sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing30 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Jersey Joe Walcott vs Rocky MarcianoA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1952 Longest unbeaten runsJersey Joe Walcott went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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