What is Marlon Starling's record?

45–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 bouts individually.

How many of Marlon Starling's bouts have no date?

2 of 55. 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.

Marlon Starling — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

45–6–1

Marlon Starling has a reach of 74″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +8.86%, exceptional for middleweight boxing and the 98th percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1979–1990 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Marlon Starling — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28

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 2026-07-28. 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 123 middleweight 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
1990	L	Maurice Blocker	Decision	12
1990	L	Michael Nunn	Decision	12
1989	W	Young Kil Jung	Decision	12
1989	W	Lloyd Honeyghan	KO/TKO	9
1988	?	Tomás Molinares	—	6
1988	D	Mark Breland	Decision	12
1988	W	Fujio Ozaki	Decision	12
1987	W	Mark Breland	KO/TKO	11
1987	W	Norberto Bueno	KO/TKO	3
1987	W	Pedro Vilella	Decision	10
1986	W	Roberto Mendez	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	Dexter Smith	KO/TKO	5
1986	L	Johnny Bumphus	—	6
1986	W	Ralph Twinning	KO/TKO	7
1986	W	Leo Davis	KO/TKO	2
1985	W	Simon Brown	Decision	12
1985	W	Reggie Miller	Decision	10
1985	W	Floyd Mayweather Sr.	Decision	12
1984	L	Pedro Vilella	Decision	12
1984	W	Lupe Aquino	Decision	12
1984	L	Donald Curry	Decision	15
1983	W	Bob Graddy	KO/TKO	3
1983	W	Sammy Rookard	KO/TKO	5
1983	W	Tommy Ayers	Decision	12
1983	W	Kevin Howard	Decision	12
1983	W	Jose Baret	KO/TKO	4
1983	W	Manuel Madera	KO/TKO	3
1982	L	Donald Curry	Decision	12
1982	W	Inocencio De la Rosa	Decision	10
1982	W	Kevin Morgan	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Babilah McCarthy	KO/TKO	9
1982	W	Ricardo Raul Camoranesi	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Jose Luis Santana	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Danny Paul	Decision	10
1981	W	Jack Morrell	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Juan Hidalgo	KO/TKO	5
1981	W	Johnny Cooper	KO/TKO	1
1981	W	Miguel Angel Hernandez	KO/TKO	8
1981	W	Floyd Mayweather Sr.	Decision	10
1981	W	Bruce Strauss	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Ruby Ortiz	Decision	10
1980	W	Curtis Taylor	Decision	10
1980	W	Dave Bolden	KO/TKO	3
1980	W	Benji Goldstone	KO/TKO	5
1980	W	Eddie Campbell	Decision	8
1980	W	Feliciano Cintron	KO/TKO	6
1980	W	Frank Minnigan	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Charles Newell	KO/TKO	7
1979	W	John Saxton	KO/TKO	4
1979	W	Hector Ortiz	Decision	6
1979	W	Jerry North	Decision	4
1979	W	Hubert Jackson	Decision	4
1979	W	Tim LaValley	KO/TKO	3
undated	W	Charles Newel	—	—
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Marlon Starling — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+8.86%

74″ reach on a 68″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	77th pct
Height	68″ (172.7 cm)	13th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 46 of 53 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

45–6

52 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 49th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 1979 to 1990. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1979–1990

Career span

12y

1979–1990

Longest unbeaten run

19

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1980

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

53 with a date

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Marlon Starling's record?: 45–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 bouts individually.
How many of Marlon Starling's bouts have no date?: 2 of 55. 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

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Starling sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

46 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Marlon Starling went 19 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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