What is John Conteh MBE's record?

34–4–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 bouts individually.

How many of John Conteh MBE's bouts have no date?

2 of 41. 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.

John Conteh MBE — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

34–4–1

John Conteh MBE has a reach of 76″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +5.52%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 73rd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1971–1980 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·John Conteh — 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 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

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
1980	W	James Dixon	KO/TKO	5
1980	L	Matthew Saad Muhammad	KO/TKO	4
1979	L	Matthew Saad Muhammad	Decision	15
1979	W	Ivy Brown	Decision	10
1979	D	Jesse Burnett	Draw	10
1978	W	Leonardo Rodgers	KO/TKO	7
1978	L	Mate Parlov	—	15
1978	W	Joe Cokes	Decision	10
1977	W	Len Hutchins	KO/TKO	3
1976	W	Yaqui López	Decision	15
1975	W	Willie Taylor	—	10
1975	W	Lonnie Bennett	KO/TKO	5
1974	W	Jorge Ahumada	Decision	15
1974	W	Chris Finnegan	KO/TKO	6
1974	W	Tom Bogs	—	6
1974	W	Les Stevens	Decision	10
1973	W	Fred Lewis	KO/TKO	3
1973	W	Baby Boy Rolle	Decision	15
1973	W	Vicente Rondón	KO/TKO	9
1973	W	Chris Finnegan	Decision	15
1973	W	Rüdiger Schmidtke	KO/TKO	12
1973	W	Terry Daniels	KO/TKO	7
1973	W	Dave Matthews	Decision	10
1972	W	Sam McGill	KO/TKO	9
1972	W	John Hudgins	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Bill Drover	KO/TKO	7
1972	W	Ferenc Kristofcsak	KO/TKO	1
1972	L	Eddie Duncan	Decision	10
1972	W	Johnny Mac	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Billy Aird	KO/TKO	8
1972	W	Joe Gholston	KO/TKO	5
1972	W	Ruben Figueroa	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Larry Sykes	KO/TKO	1
1972	W	Wilhelm Janco	KO/TKO	1
1971	W	Emilio Okee	KO/TKO	5
1971	W	Tony Burwell	—	8
1971	W	Frank Bullard	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Pierre Minier	—	5
1971	W	Okacha Boubekeur	—	1
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undated	?	Opponent	—	—

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·John Conteh — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.52%

76″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	76″ (193 cm)	32nd pct
Height	72″ (182.9 cm)	17th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: light heavyweight, cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1970s — 37 of 39 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

34–4

39 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 56th percentile

By knockout 71%
By decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

41 recorded bouts from 1971 to 1980. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1971–1980

Career span

10y

1971–1980

Longest unbeaten run

22

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1972

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

41

39 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is John Conteh MBE's record?: 34–4–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 bouts individually.
How many of John Conteh MBE's bouts have no date?: 2 of 41. 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

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution MBE sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

37 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS John Conteh MBE vs Mate Parlov

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1978 Longest unbeaten runs

John Conteh MBE went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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