What is Max Schmeling's record?

56–10–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 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.

Max Schmeling — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

56–10–4

Max Schmeling has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +4.1%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 56th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1924–1948

SOURCE·Max Schmeling — 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
1948	L	Richard Vogt	Decision	10
1948	W	Hans Joachim Draegestein	KO/TKO	9
1948	L	Walter Neusel	Decision	10
1947	W	Hans Joachim Draegestein	Decision	10
1947	W	Werner Vollmer	KO/TKO	7
1939	W	Adolf Heuser	KO/TKO	1
1938	L	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	1
1938	W	Steve Dudas	KO/TKO	5
1938	W	Ben Foord	Decision	12
1937	W	Harry Thomas	KO/TKO	8
1936	W	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	12
1935	W	Paulino Uzcudun	Decision	12
1935	W	Steve Hamas	KO/TKO	9
1934	W	Walter Neusel	KO/TKO	9
1934	D	Paulino Uzcudun	Draw	12
1934	L	Steve Hamas	—	12
1933	L	Max Baer	KO/TKO	10
1932	W	Mickey Walker	KO/TKO	8
1932	L	Jack Sharkey	—	15
1931	W	Young Stribling	KO/TKO	15
1930	W	Jack Sharkey	DQ	4
1929	W	Paulino Uzcudun	Decision	15
1929	W	Johnny Risko	KO/TKO	9
1929	W	Pietro Corri	KO/TKO	1
1929	W	Joe Sekyra	Decision	10
1928	W	Joe Monte	KO/TKO	8
1928	W	Franz Diener	Decision	15
1928	W	Ted Moore	Decision	10
1928	L	Gipsy Daniels	KO/TKO	1
1928	W	Michele Bonaglia	KO/TKO	1
1927	W	Gipsy Daniels	Decision	10
1927	W	Hein Domgoergen	KO/TKO	7
1927	W	Louis Clement	KO/TKO	6
1927	W	Robert Larsen	KO/TKO	3
1927	W	Willem Westbroek	KO/TKO	3
1927	W	Jack Taylor	Decision	10
1927	W	Fernand Delarge	KO/TKO	14
1927	W	Raoul Paillaux	KO/TKO	3
1927	W	Stanley Glen	KO/TKO	1
1927	W	Francois Charles	KO/TKO	8
1927	W	Leon Sebilo	KO/TKO	2
1927	W	Joe Mehling	KO/TKO	3
1927	W	Louis Wilms	KO/TKO	8
1927	W	Jack Stanley	KO/TKO	8
1926	W	Herman van 't Hof	DQ	8
1926	W	Max Diekmann	KO/TKO	1
1926	W	Aug Vongehr	—	1
1926	W	Willy Louis	KO/TKO	1
1925	W	René Compère	Decision	8
1925	L	Larry Gains	KO/TKO	2
1925	D	Leon Randol	Decision	10
1925	L	Jack Taylor	Decision	10
1925	W	Fred Hammer	Decision	10
1925	D	Jimmy Lyggett Sr	Draw	8
1925	W	Alfred Baker	KO/TKO	8
1925	W	Joe Mehling	Decision	6
1925	W	Johnny Cludts	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Jimmy Lyggett Sr	DQ	4
1924	W	Richard Hartig	KO/TKO	1
1924	W	Battling Mathar	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.

17 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.1%

76″ reach on a 73″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	76″ (193 cm)	32nd pct
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)	27th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1920s — 46 of 67 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

56–10

70 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 58th percentile

By knockout 71%
By decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

67 recorded bouts from 1924 to 1948. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1924–1948

Career span

25y

1924–1948

Longest unbeaten run

25

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1927

14 bouts

Recorded bouts

67

67 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 Max Schmeling's record?: 56–10–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 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 Schmeling sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

46 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

53 FIGHTERS Jack Sharkey vs Max Schmeling

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

1930 Longest unbeaten runs

Max Schmeling went 25 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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