What is Larry Holmes's record?

69–6 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 83 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.

Larry Holmes — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

69–6

Larry Holmes has a reach of 81″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +7.98%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 85th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1973–2004

SOURCE·Larry Holmes — 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
2004	?	Ron McCarthy	—	3
2002	W	Eric Esch	Decision	10
2000	W	Mike Weaver	KO/TKO	6
1999	W	James Smith	KO/TKO	8
1997	W	Maurice Harris	Decision	10
1997	L	Brian Nielsen	Decision	12
1996	W	Anthony Willis	KO/TKO	8
1996	W	Quinn Navarre	Decision	10
1996	W	Curtis Sheppard	KO/TKO	4
1995	W	Ed Donaldson	Decision	10
1995	L	Oliver McCall	Decision	12
1994	W	Jesse Ferguson	Decision	10
1994	W	Garing Lane	Decision	10
1993	W	José Ribalta	Decision	10
1993	W	Paul Poirier	KO/TKO	6
1993	W	Ken Lakusta	KO/TKO	7
1993	W	Rocky Pepeli	KO/TKO	4
1993	W	Everett Martin	Decision	10
1992	L	Evander Holyfield	Decision	12
1992	W	Ray Mercer	Decision	12
1991	W	Jamie Howe	KO/TKO	1
1991	W	Art Card	Decision	10
1991	W	Michael Greer	KO/TKO	4
1991	W	Eddie Gonzales	Decision	10
1991	W	Tim Anderson	KO/TKO	1
1990	?	James Tillis	—	2
1990	?	Bernardo Mercado	—	2
1989	?	Tim Anderson	—	4
1988	L	Mike Tyson	KO/TKO	4
1986	L	Michael Spinks	Decision	15
1985	L	Michael Spinks	Decision	15
1985	W	Carl Williams	Decision	15
1985	W	David Bey	KO/TKO	10
1984	W	James Smith	KO/TKO	12
1983	W	Marvis Frazier	KO/TKO	1
1983	W	Scott Frank	KO/TKO	5
1983	W	Tim Witherspoon	Decision	12
1983	W	Lucien Rodriguez	Decision	12
1982	W	Randall Cobb	Decision	15
1982	W	Gerry Cooney	KO/TKO	13
1982	?	Floyd Cummings	—	4
1982	?	Mitch Green	—	2
1981	W	Renaldo Snipes	KO/TKO	11
1981	W	Leon Spinks	KO/TKO	3
1981	W	Trevor Berbick	Decision	15
1980	W	Muhammad Ali	—	10
1980	W	Scott LeDoux	KO/TKO	7
1980	W	Leroy Jones	KO/TKO	8
1980	W	Lorenzo Zanon	KO/TKO	6
1979	W	Earnie Shavers	KO/TKO	11
1979	W	Mike Weaver	KO/TKO	12
1979	W	Ossie Ocasio	KO/TKO	7
1979	?	Jody Ballard	—	2
1979	?	Wendell Baily	—	2
1978	W	Alfredo Evangelista	KO/TKO	7
1978	W	Ken Norton	—	15
1978	W	Earnie Shavers	Decision	12
1977	W	Ibar Arrington	KO/TKO	10
1977	W	Fred Houpe	KO/TKO	7
1977	W	Horace Robinson	KO/TKO	5

Showing 60 of 83 recorded bouts, most recent first.

35 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+7.98%

81″ reach on a 75″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	81″ (205.7 cm)	77th pct
Height	75″ (190.5 cm)	57th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 34 of 83 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

69–6

75 bouts on record

Finish rate

64%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 42nd percentile

By knockout 64%
By decision 36%

The career, bout by bout

83 recorded bouts from 1973 to 2004. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1973–2004

Career span

32y

1973–2004

Longest unbeaten run

46

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1975

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

83

83 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 Larry Holmes's record?: 69–6 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 83 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

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

605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

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

115 FIGHTERS Earnie Shavers vs Larry Holmes

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

1978 Longest unbeaten runs

Larry Holmes went 46 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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