Joe Louis
76″ reach · +3.37% reach advantage · 44th percentile
66–3
Joe Louis has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73.5″ — a reach advantage of +3.37%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 44th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Joe Louis — 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | L | Rocky Marciano | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1951 | W | Jimmy Bivins | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Cesar Brion | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Lee Savold | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1951 | W | Omelio Agramonte | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Andy Walker | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Freddie Beshore | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1950 | W | Cesar Brion | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | L | Ezzard Charles | Decision | 15 |
| 1948 | W | Jersey Joe Walcott | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1947 | W | Jersey Joe Walcott | Decision | 15 |
| 1946 | W | Tami Mauriello | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1946 | W | Billy Conn | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1944 | W | Johnny Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1942 | W | Abe Simon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1942 | W | Buddy Baer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1941 | W | Lou Nova | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1941 | W | Billy Conn | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1941 | W | Buddy Baer | — | 7 |
| 1941 | W | Tony Musto | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1941 | W | Abe Simon | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1941 | W | Gus Dorazio | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1941 | W | Red Burman | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1940 | W | Al McCoy | — | 5 |
| 1940 | W | Arturo Godoy | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1940 | W | Johnny Paychek | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1939 | W | Bob Pastor | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1939 | W | Tony Galento | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1939 | W | Jack Roper | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1939 | W | John Henry Lewis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | W | Max Schmeling | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | W | Harry Thomas | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1938 | W | Nathan Mann | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1937 | W | Tommy Farr | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | James J. Braddock | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1937 | W | Natie Brown | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1937 | W | Bob Pastor | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Steve Ketchel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Eddie Simms | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Jorge Brescia | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Al Ettore | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1936 | W | Jack Sharkey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | L | Max Schmeling | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1936 | W | Charley Retzlaff | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Paulino Uzcudun | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Max Baer | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | King Levinsky | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Primo Carnera | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1935 | W | Biff Bennett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Roy Lazer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1935 | W | Natie Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Don "Red" Barry | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1935 | W | Lee Ramage | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1935 | W | Hans Birkie | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Patsy Perroni | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Lee Ramage | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1934 | W | Charley Massera | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1934 | W | Stanley Poreda | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Jack O'Dowd | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1934 | W | Art Sykes | KO/TKO | 8 |
Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.
27 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joe Louis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.37%
76″ reach on a 73.5″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 32nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73.5″ (186.7 cm) | 37th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 41 of 67 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
66–3
69 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 75th percentile
The career, bout by bout
67 recorded bouts from 1934 to 1951. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1934–1951
Longest unbeaten run
31
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1934
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
67
67 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Henry Tillman+3.36% 77.5″ reach · 44th pct
- Fred Kassi+3.29% 189″ reach · 44th pct
- Moses Itauma+3.45% 79″ reach · 44th pct
- Tony Yoka+3.48% 81.9″ reach · 45th pct
- Bob Mirovic+3.57% 79.9″ reach · 45th pct
- Francesco Pianeta+3.57% 79.9″ reach · 45th pct
- Dominick Guinn+3.66% 78″ reach · 46th pct
- Andrzej Wawrzyk+3.08% 79.1″ reach · 43rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joe Louis's record?
- 66–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 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 Louis sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing41 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Joe Louis vs John Henry LewisA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1939 Longest unbeaten runsJoe Louis went 31 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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