Lou Ambers
70″ reach · +9.35% reach advantage · 98th percentile
89–8–7
Lou Ambers has a reach of 70″ against a height of 64″ — a reach advantage of +9.35%, exceptional for welterweight boxing and the 98th percentile of the 130 compared here.
SOURCE·Lou Ambers — 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 130 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | L | Lew Jenkins | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1941 | W | Norment Quarles | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | L | Lew Jenkins | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1940 | W | Norment Quarles | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Wally Hally | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Al Bummy Davis | Decision | 10 |
| 1939 | W | Jimmy Vaughn | Decision | 10 |
| 1939 | W | Henry Armstrong | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Paul Junior | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1939 | W | Honey Mellody | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1939 | W | Baby Arizmendi | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1939 | W | Joey Silva | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Frankie Wallace | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1938 | W | Tommy Cross | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Steve Halaiko | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1938 | L | Henry Armstrong | Decision | 15 |
| 1938 | W | Jimmy Vaughn | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | D | Baby Arizmendi | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Jimmy Garrison | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Lou Jallos | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1937 | W | Frankie Wallace | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Charley Burns | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Pedro Montañez | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Howard Scott | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Tony Canzoneri | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Phil Baker | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Roger Bernard | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Al Roth | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Davey Day | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | D | Enrico Venturi | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Stumpy Jacobs | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1936 | L | Jimmy McLarnin | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | L | Eddie Cool | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Tony Canzoneri | Decision | 15 |
| 1936 | W | Joey Greb | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Jackie Sharkey | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Orville Drouillard | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Buster Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Pete Mascia | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Tony Scarpati | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1936 | W | Eddie Marks | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Baby Arizmendi | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | W | Tony Herrera | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1936 | W | Frankie Klick | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Lou Jallos | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1935 | W | Jimmy Vaughn | Decision | 8 |
| 1935 | W | George Levy | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Fritzie Zivic | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | L | Tony Canzoneri | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Honeyboy Hughes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Sammy Fuller | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Harry Dublinsky | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Pancho Villa | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Mickey Paul | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Billy Hogan | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Tony Herrera | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Roger Bernard | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | W | Phil Rafferty | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1934 | D | Jimmy Leto | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | D | Steve Halaiko | Decision | 10 |
Showing 60 of 100 recorded bouts, most recent first.
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Lou Ambers — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.35%
70″ reach on a 64″ frame
Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 44th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 64″ (162.6 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 92 of 98 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
89–8
106 bouts on record
Finish rate
33%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 18th percentile
The career, bout by bout
100 recorded bouts from 1932 to 1941. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1932–1941
Longest unbeaten run
46
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1933
24 bouts
Recorded bouts
100
98 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Omar Figueroa Jr.+8.93% 73″ reach · 97th pct
- Ener Julio+8.55% 76″ reach · 96th pct
- Justin Juuko+7.46% 72″ reach · 95th pct
- Sharmba Mitchell+7.46% 72″ reach · 95th pct
- Luciano Leonel Cuello+6.78% 74.4″ reach · 94th pct
- Benny Leonard+6.18% 69″ reach · 93rd pct
- Young Peter Jackson+6.09% 70″ reach · 92nd pct
- Maurice Hooker+12.7% 80″ reach · 98th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Lou Ambers's record?
- 89–8–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 100 bouts individually.
- How many of Lou Ambers's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 100. 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 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Ambers sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing92 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsLou Ambers went 46 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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