Niño Valdés
78″ reach · +3.99% reach advantage · 49th percentile
48–18–3
Niño Valdés has a reach of 78″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +3.99%, average for heavyweight boxing and the 49th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Niño Valdés — 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | W | Brian London | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1959 | L | Sonny Liston | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1959 | L | Alonzo Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Danny Hodge | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1959 | L | Charlie Powell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1958 | W | Pat McMurtry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1958 | W | Mike DeJohn | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Harold Carter | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1958 | W | Johnny Summerlin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1958 | W | Wayne Bethea | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | L | Alex Miteff | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Jeff Dyer | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1957 | W | John Holman | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Joe Erskine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1956 | W | Hans Friedrich | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1956 | W | Dick Richardson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Bob Woodall | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1956 | L | Zora Folley | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | L | Eddie Machen | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Ken Hammer | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1955 | L | Bob Baker | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Don Cockell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1955 | L | Bob Satterfield | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | L | Archie Moore | Decision | 15 |
| 1955 | W | Jack Flood | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1954 | W | Jimmy Walls | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1954 | W | Tommy Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1954 | W | Karel Sys | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1954 | W | James J. Parker | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Archie McBride | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Heinz Neuhaus | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1953 | W | Matt Daniels | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1953 | W | Charley Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Ezzard Charles | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Omelio Agramonte | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Bob Baker | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Billy Gilliam | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Archie Moore | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | L | Harold Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Jimmy Walker | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1952 | D | Joe McFadden | Decision | 8 |
| 1952 | W | Sandy McPherson | Decision | 8 |
| 1952 | W | Keene Simmons | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Aldo Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1950 | W | Juan Carlos Vigo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1950 | W | Tommy Bevil | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1948 | L | Archie McBride | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Doc Bee | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | D | Jimmy Freeman | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | ? | Cheo Morejon | — | 5 |
| 1947 | W | Aldo Rodriguez | Decision | 8 |
| 1946 | W | Kid Carbajal | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1946 | D | Cheo Morejon | Decision | 10 |
| 1945 | W | Federico Malibran | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1944 | W | Epifanio Perez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1944 | L | Mario Raul Ochoa | Decision | 8 |
| 1944 | W | Andres Ferrer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1943 | W | Julio Lazaro Diaz | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1943 | W | Benito Garcia Malpica | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1943 | W | Andres Dominguez | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Niño Valdés — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.99%
78″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 53rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 46 of 66 dated bouts | |
| Country | Cuba |
Record
Boxing record
48–18
70 bouts on record
Finish rate
75%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
67 recorded bouts from 1941 to 1959. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1941–1959
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1953
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
67
66 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Alexander Flores+3.99% 79″ reach · 49th pct
- Scott Gammer+3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Zhan Kossobutskiy+3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Monte Barrett+3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Éric Molina+3.99% 79″ reach · 49th pct
- Trevor Bryan+3.99% 79″ reach · 49th pct
- Tim Witherspoon+3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Michael Dokes+3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Niño Valdés's record?
- 48–18–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.
- How many of Niño Valdés's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 67. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Valdés sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing46 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Niño Valdés vs Sonny ListonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1959 Longest unbeaten runsNiño Valdés went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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