What is Lee Savold's record?

98–40–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 134 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.

Lee Savold — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

98–40–3

Lee Savold has a reach of 74.5″ against a height of 73.5″ — a reach advantage of +1.34%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 24th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1934–1952 · EARLIEST 14 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Lee Savold — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21

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 2026-07-21. 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
1952	L	Rocky Marciano	KO/TKO	6
1951	L	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	6
1950	W	Bruce Woodcock	KO/TKO	4
1948	L	Bruce Woodcock	DQ	4
1948	W	Pete Louthis	KO/TKO	5
1948	W	Buddy Walker	KO/TKO	1
1948	W	Gino Buonvino	KO/TKO	1
1947	W	Alberto Marchione	KO/TKO	8
1947	D	Ted Lowry	Decision	10
1947	L	Phil Muscato	Decision	10
1947	W	Duilio Spagnolo	KO/TKO	8
1947	L	Fitzie Fitzpatrick	Decision	10
1947	D	Jimmy Richie	Decision	10
1946	W	Steve Ketchell	KO/TKO	3
1946	W	Pete Louthis	KO/TKO	5
1946	L	Elmer Ray	KO/TKO	2
1946	W	Johnny White	Decision	10
1946	W	Jimmy O'Brien	Decision	10
1946	W	Bob Garner	KO/TKO	2
1946	W	Lindy Elliott	KO/TKO	2
1946	?	Arturo Godoy	—	8
1946	L	Al Hoosman	Decision	10
1945	W	Dixie Oliver	KO/TKO	1
1945	W	Al Hoosman	Decision	10
1945	W	Kid Riviera	KO/TKO	3
1944	W	Gus Dorazio	Decision	10
1944	L	Joe Baksi	Decision	10
1943	L	Tami Mauriello	Decision	10
1943	W	Eddie Blunt	KO/TKO	1
1943	W	Lou Nova	KO/TKO	2
1943	W	Lem Franklin	KO/TKO	8
1943	W	Jack Marshall	KO/TKO	2
1943	W	Nate Bolden	KO/TKO	3
1942	L	Jimmy Bivins	Decision	10
1942	W	Johnny Kapovich	KO/TKO	2
1942	L	Tami Mauriello	Decision	10
1942	W	Johnny Flynn	KO/TKO	4
1942	W	Tony Musto	Decision	10
1942	W	Bill Poland	KO/TKO	9
1942	W	Lou Nova	KO/TKO	8
1942	W	Jack Marshall	Decision	10
1942	W	Wallace Cross	KO/TKO	9
1942	W	Ted Wint	KO/TKO	9
1942	W	Neville Beech	KO/TKO	4
1941	W	Buddy Knox	KO/TKO	5
1941	W	Jack Marshall	Decision	10
1941	W	Tony Degutis	KO/TKO	1
1941	W	Ralph Kosky	KO/TKO	1
1941	W	Lou Brooks	KO/TKO	6
1941	W	Claudio Villar	KO/TKO	4
1941	L	Harry Bobo	KO/TKO	2
1941	W	Solly Krieger	Decision	10
1941	W	Erv Sarlin	Decision	10
1941	W	King Kong	KO/TKO	6
1941	W	Mike Alfano	KO/TKO	3
1941	W	Henry Wacker	KO/TKO	2
1941	W	Selman Martin	—	10
1940	L	Billy Conn	Decision	12
1940	W	Arne Andersson	KO/TKO	8
1940	W	Andy Miller	KO/TKO	1

Showing 60 of 134 recorded bouts, most recent first.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Lee Savold — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.34%

74.5″ reach on a 73.5″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	74.5″ (189.2 cm)	23rd pct
Height	73.5″ (186.7 cm)	37th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 67 of 134 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

98–40

155 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 62nd percentile

By knockout 73%
By decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

134 recorded bouts from 1933 to 1952. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1933–1952

Career span

20y

1933–1952

Longest unbeaten run

15

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1939

16 bouts

Recorded bouts

134

134 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 Lee Savold's record?: 98–40–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 134 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 Savold sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

67 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

71 FIGHTERS Joe Louis vs Lee Savold

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

1951 Longest unbeaten runs

Lee Savold went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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