Jesse James Leija
66″ reach · +1.51% reach advantage · 39th percentile
47–7–2
Jesse James Leija has a reach of 66″ against a height of 65″ — a reach advantage of +1.51%, short for light welterweight boxing and the 39th percentile of the 97 compared here.
SOURCE·Jesse James Leija — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 97 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | L | Arturo Gatti | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2004 | W | Francisco Bojado | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Marteze Logan | — | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Fernando Mena | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Adan Casillas | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | L | Kostya Tszyu | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Micky Ward | — | 5 |
| 2001 | ? | Héctor Camacho Jr. | — | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Fred Ladd | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Ivan Robinson | Decision | 10 |
| 2000 | L | Juan Lazcano | — | 10 |
| 2000 | W | Jorge Luis Lopez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Wayne Boudreaux | — | 5 |
| 1999 | W | Verdell Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | L | Shane Mosley | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1998 | W | Azumah Nelson | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Troy Crain | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Joel Perez | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Effie Schneider | Decision | 10 |
| 1997 | W | Jose Rodriguez | Decision | 8 |
| 1997 | W | Joel Perez | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Roberto Avila | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | L | Azumah Nelson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | L | Oscar De La Hoya | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Rodney Garnett | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1995 | W | Jeff Mayweather | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | L | Gabriel Ruelas | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Azumah Nelson | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Tomas Valdez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | D | Azumah Nelson | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Louie Espinoza | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Gabriel Castro | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Troy Dorsey | — | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Jesus Poll | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Jose Luis Martinez | — | 9 |
| 1991 | W | Steve McCrory | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Silvestre Castillo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Miguel Arrozal | — | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Rafael Soliman | Decision | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Mark Fernandez | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Felipe de Jesus | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | D | Edward Parker | Draw | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Ricky Alvarez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Bobby McCarthy | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1990 | W | Boyd Gardner | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Roy Muniz | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Gary Spencer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Joe Thompson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Carlos Flores | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Tony De La Rosa | — | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Jaime Castellano | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Capri Lipkin | Decision | 6 |
| 1989 | W | Chilo Guzman | — | 6 |
| 1989 | W | Manuel Gomez | Decision | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Joe Mitchell | — | 4 |
| 1988 | W | Martin Melendez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Oscar Davis | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jesse James Leija — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.51%
66″ reach on a 65″ frame
Compared against 97 light welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.34%.
| Reach | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 7th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 65″ (165.1 cm) | 10th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Welterweight Boxing competed at 4: featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 36 of 57 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
47–7
57 bouts on record
Finish rate
40%
of wins ended inside the distance — light welterweight boxing median 56%, 23rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
58 recorded bouts from 1988 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1988–2005
Longest unbeaten run
26
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1989
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
58
57 with a date
Closest in build
light welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mauricio Aceves+1.51% 69″ reach · 39th pct
- Ismael Barroso+1.51% 69″ reach · 39th pct
- Ray Mancini+1.54% 65″ reach · 42nd pct
- Tony Canzoneri+1.54% 65″ reach · 42nd pct
- Ubaldo Néstor Sacco+1.47% 68″ reach · 34th pct
- Javier Fortuna+1.47% 68″ reach · 34th pct
- Hank Lundy+1.47% 68″ reach · 34th pct
- Emanuel Tarot Francis Augustus+1.47% 68″ reach · 34th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jesse James Leija's record?
- 47–7–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 58 bouts individually.
- How many of Jesse James Leija's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 58. 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 182 light welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Leija sits inside.
182 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Arturo Gatti vs Jesse James LeijaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2005 Longest unbeaten runsJesse James Leija went 26 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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