Johnny Tapia
59–5 · 67 recorded bouts · 1988–2011
59–5–2
Johnny Tapia finished 51% of 59 wins inside the distance — the 50th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Johnny Tapia — 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 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | W | Mauricio Pastrana | Decision | 8 |
| 2010 | W | Jose Alonso | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2010 | W | Jorge Alberto Reyes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Evaristo Primero | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | L | Sandro Marcos | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Frankie Archuleta | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | W | Nicky Bentz | Decision | 10 |
| 2004 | L | Frankie Archuleta | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | W | Carlos Contreras | Decision | 10 |
| 2002 | L | Marco Antonio Barrera | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Manuel Medina | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Eduardo Enrique Alvarez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | César Soto | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Cuauhtemoc Gomez | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | L | Paulie Ayala | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Pedro Javier Torres | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Jorge Eliécer Julio | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | L | Paulie Ayala | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Alberto Martinez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Nana Konadu | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Carlos Francis Hernandez | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Rodolfo Blanco | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Andy Agosto | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Danny Romero | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Jorge Barrera | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Adonis Cruz | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Sammy Stewart | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1996 | W | Hugo Rafael Soto | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Ivan Alvarez | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Ramon Gonzales | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Giovanni Andrade | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Willy Salazar | — | 9 |
| 1995 | W | Raul Rios | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Jesse Miranda | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Arthur Johnson | — | 12 |
| 1995 | D | Ricardo Vargas | Draw | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Jose Rafael Sosa | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Rolando Bohol | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Henry Martínez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1994 | W | Oscar Aguilar | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Rafael Granillo | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1994 | W | Antonio Ruiz | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | W | Arturo Estrada | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Jaime Olvera | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1990 | W | Santiago Caballero | — | 7 |
| 1990 | W | Luigi Camputaro | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Jose Montiel | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Pablo Valenzuela | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1990 | W | Roland Gomez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1990 | W | Abraham Garcia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Jesus Chong | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Martin Perez Ramirez | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Prudencio De Jesus | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | John Michael Johnson | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Hugo Partida | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Josefino Suarez | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Fred Hernandez | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Abner Barajas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Simon Contreras | Decision | 8 |
| 1988 | W | Jorge Salinas | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.
15 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Johnny Tapia — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 4: super flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 34 of 66 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Johnny Tapia, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
59–5
66 bouts on record
Finish rate
51%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 50th percentile
The career, bout by bout
67 recorded bouts from 1988 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1988–2011
Longest unbeaten run
45
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1988
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
67
66 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Johnny Tapia's record?
- 59–5–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.
- How many of Johnny Tapia's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 67. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tapia sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing34 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJohnny Tapia went 45 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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