Jessie Vargas
71″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 5th percentile
29–4–2
Jessie Vargas has a reach of 71″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for light middleweight boxing and the 5th percentile of the 78 compared here.
SOURCE·Jessie Vargas — 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 78 light middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Liam Smith | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2020 | L | Mikey Garcia | Decision | 12 |
| 2019 | W | Humberto Soto | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2018 | D | Thomas Dulorme | Draw | 12 |
| 2018 | D | Adrien Broner | Draw | 12 |
| 2017 | W | Aaron Herrera | Decision | 10 |
| 2016 | L | Manny Pacquiao | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | W | Sadam Ali | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2015 | L | Timothy Bradley | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Antonio DeMarco | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Anton Novikov | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Khabib Allakhverdiev | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Ray Narh | Decision | 10 |
| 2013 | W | Wale Omotoso | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Vito Gasparyan | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Aaron Martinez | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Steve Forbes | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Lanardo Tyner | Decision | 10 |
| 2011 | W | Josesito López | — | 10 |
| 2011 | W | Walter Estrada | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Vivian Harris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Cristian Favela | Decision | 8 |
| 2010 | W | Ramón Montaño | Decision | 8 |
| 2010 | W | Daniel Sarmiento | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Ernesto Zavala | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Arturo Morua | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Robert Luna Jr. | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Rickey Kinney | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Travis Hartman | — | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Raul Tovar | Decision | 6 |
| 2009 | W | Anthony Lenk | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Antonio Sorria | Decision | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Michael Lynks | — | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Trenton Titsworth | — | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Joel Gonzalez | — | 1 |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jessie Vargas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
71″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 78 light middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.87%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 44th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 82nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 26 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
29–4
35 bouts on record
Finish rate
38%
of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 15th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2008–2022
Longest unbeaten run
26
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2010
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
35 with a date
Closest in build
light middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Fulgencio Zúñiga0% 70″ reach · 5th pct
- Ramón Álvarez0% 68″ reach · 5th pct
- Troy Waters0% 70.9″ reach · 5th pct
- Travis Simms0% 69″ reach · 5th pct
- Vergil Ortiz Jr.0% 70″ reach · 5th pct
- Bakhram Murtazaliev0% 72″ reach · 5th pct
- Wilfred Benítez0% 70″ reach · 5th pct
- Meldrick Taylor0% 66″ reach · 5th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jessie Vargas's record?
- 29–4–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 35 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 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Vargas sits inside.
161 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing26 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
730 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJessie Vargas went 26 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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