What is Primo Carnera's record?

88–14 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 99 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.

Primo Carnera — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

88–14

Primo Carnera has a reach of 85″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +10.38%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 95th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1928–1946

SOURCE·Primo Carnera — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24

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 2026-07-24. 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
1946	L	Luigi Musina	Decision	10
1945	L	Luigi Musina	KO/TKO	7
1945	W	Sam Gardner	KO/TKO	1
1945	W	Michel Blevens	KO/TKO	3
1937	W	Josip Zupan	KO/TKO	2
1937	L	Albert Di Meglio	Decision	10
1936	L	Leroy Haynes	KO/TKO	9
1936	W	Isidoro Gastanaga	KO/TKO	5
1935	W	Big Boy Brackey	KO/TKO	4
1935	W	Ford Smith	Decision	10
1935	W	Walter Neusel	KO/TKO	4
1935	L	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	6
1935	W	Ray Impelletiere	KO/TKO	9
1935	W	Erwin Klausner	KO/TKO	6
1935	W	Seal Harris	KO/TKO	7
1934	W	Victorio Campolo	Decision	12
1934	L	Max Baer	KO/TKO	11
1934	W	Tommy Loughran	Decision	15
1933	W	Paulino Uzcudun	Decision	15
1933	W	Jack Sharkey	KO/TKO	6
1933	W	Ernie Schaaf	KO/TKO	13
1932	W	Young Spence	KO/TKO	1
1932	W	James Merriott	KO/TKO	1
1932	W	Joe Rice	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	KO Christner	KO/TKO	4
1932	W	Big Boy Peterson	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	King Levinsky	Decision	10
1932	W	John Schwake	KO/TKO	7
1932	W	José Santa	KO/TKO	6
1932	W	Les Kennedy	KO/TKO	3
1932	W	Jack Taylor	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	Gene Stanton	KO/TKO	6
1932	W	Ted Sandwina	KO/TKO	4
1932	W	Art Lasky	—	10
1932	W	Jack Gagnon	KO/TKO	1
1932	L	Stanley Poreda	Decision	10
1932	W	Hans Birkie	Decision	10
1932	W	Jerry Pavelec	KO/TKO	5
1932	W	Jack Gross	KO/TKO	7
1932	L	Larry Gains	Decision	10
1932	W	Hans Schönrath	KO/TKO	3
1932	W	Maurice Griselle	KO/TKO	10
1932	W	Don McCorkindale	Decision	10
1932	W	George Cook	KO/TKO	4
1932	W	Pierre Charles	Decision	10
1932	W	Ernst Gühring	KO/TKO	5
1932	W	Moise Bouquillon	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Victorio Campolo	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	King Levinsky	Decision	10
1931	L	Jack Sharkey	—	15
1931	W	Armando De Carolis	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Roberto Roberti	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Knute Hansen	KO/TKO	1
1931	W	Bud Gorman	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Umberto Torriani	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Pat Redmond	KO/TKO	1
1931	W	Jim Maloney	Decision	10
1930	W	Reggie Meen	KO/TKO	2
1930	W	Paulino Uzcudun	—	10
1930	L	Jim Maloney	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 99 recorded bouts, most recent first.

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Primo Carnera — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+10.38%

85″ reach on a 77″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	85″ (215.9 cm)	97th pct
Height	77″ (195.6 cm)	82nd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 79 of 99 dated bouts
Country	Italy

Record

Boxing record

88–14

103 bouts on record

Finish rate

81%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 79th percentile

By knockout 81%
By decision 19%

The career, bout by bout

99 recorded bouts from 1928 to 1946. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1928–1946

Career span

19y

1928–1946

Longest unbeaten run

25

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1930

26 bouts

Recorded bouts

99

99 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 Primo Carnera's record?: 88–14 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 99 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 Carnera sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

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

71 FIGHTERS Jack Sharkey vs Primo Carnera

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

1931 Longest unbeaten runs

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

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