What is Joe Lynch's record?

99–36–21 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 135 bouts individually.

How many of Joe Lynch's bouts have no date?

1 of 135. 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.

Joe Lynch — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

99–36–21

Joe Lynch has a reach of 66″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for bantamweight boxing and the 9th percentile of the 70 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1916–1926 · EARLIEST 14 NOT SHOWN · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Joe Lynch (boxer) — 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 record template — 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 70 bantamweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1926	W	Eddie Siegel	KO/TKO	3
1926	W	Willie Spencer	KO/TKO	5
1926	W	Frankie Murray	KO/TKO	3
1926	L	Memphis Pal Moore	—	10
1925	D	Jackie Sharkey	Decision	4
1925	L	Willie Cunningham	Decision	6
1925	D	Larry Goldberg	Decision	12
1925	L	Len Brenner	Decision	8
1924	L	Pete Sarmiento	Decision	10
1924	L	Johnny Sheppard	Decision	10
1924	L	Abe Goldstein	Decision	15
1924	W	Eddie Gorman	KO/TKO	3
1924	W	Paddy Owens	KO/TKO	2
1924	L	Eddie McKenna	Decision	10
1924	W	Earl McArthur	Decision	10
1924	W	Jimmy Murphy	KO/TKO	3
1923	W	Eddie Coulon	KO/TKO	3
1923	L	Memphis Pal Moore	—	10
1923	W	Frankie Murray	KO/TKO	5
1923	W	Eddie Siegel	KO/TKO	3
1923	L	Harold Smith	—	10
1923	W	Battling Reddy	—	12
1923	W	Patsy Johnson	KO/TKO	6
1923	D	Bobby Wolgast	Draw	8
1923	L	Young Montreal	—	10
1923	W	Joe O'Donnell	—	12
1923	W	Midget Smith	—	10
1923	L	Joe Burman	—	10
1923	L	Jimmy Mendo	—	8
1923	W	Pete Husic	—	8
1922	W	Midget Smith	Decision	15
1922	W	Joey Sangor	—	10
1922	W	Frankie Daly	—	10
1922	W	Benny Schwartz	KO/TKO	5
1922	L	Jack "Kid" Wolfe	Decision	15
1922	W	Memphis Pal Moore	—	12
1922	W	Ben Levy	KO/TKO	4
1922	W	Frankie Murray	KO/TKO	6
1922	W	Johnny Buff	KO/TKO	14
1922	W	Jimmy Mendo	—	8
1922	L	Terry Martin	Decision	10
1922	W	Harry Martin	Decision	15
1922	W	Johnny Gray	Decision	12
1922	W	Patsy Johnson	KO/TKO	7
1922	W	Patsy Wallace	—	8
1922	W	Al Walker	KO/TKO	1
1921	W	Maxie Williamson	KO/TKO	8
1921	D	Midget Smith	Decision	12
1921	L	Phil O'Dowd	Decision	12
1921	L	Pete Herman	Decision	15
1921	L	Joe Burman	—	10
1921	W	Sammy Sandow	KO/TKO	1
1921	L	Memphis Pal Moore	—	12
1921	L	Young Montreal	—	10
1921	W	Eddie Pinchot	—	10
1921	W	William Henry Vincent	—	8
1920	W	Pete Herman	Decision	15
1920	W	Jackie Sharkey	KO/TKO	15
1920	W	Johnny Ritchie	KO/TKO	4
1920	W	Abe Goldstein	KO/TKO	11

Showing 60 of 135 recorded bouts, most recent first.

32 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Joe Lynch (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

66″ reach on a 66″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 70 bantamweight boxing fighters. Median 1.81%.

-3%bantamweight boxing reach advantage10%

Measurements
Reach	66″ (167.6 cm)	37th pct
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)	72nd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Bantamweight Boxing
Most active decade	1920s — 73 of 134 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

99–36

158 bouts on record

Finish rate

37%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight boxing median 48%, 31st percentile

By knockout 37%
By decision 63%

The career, bout by bout

135 recorded bouts from 1915 to 1926. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1915–1926

Career span

12y

1915–1926

Longest unbeaten run

17

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1916

18 bouts

Recorded bouts

135

134 with a date

Closest in build

bantamweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Joe Lynch's record?: 99–36–21 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 135 bouts individually.
How many of Joe Lynch's bouts have no date?: 1 of 135. 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.

Cross-references

Bantamweight boxing

The 194 bantamweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lynch sits inside.

194 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

73 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

53 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Joe Lynch went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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