Roland La Starza
72″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
57–9
Roland La Starza has a reach of 72″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Roland La Starza — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | L | Monroe Ratliff | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Ike Thomas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1960 | W | Danny Logan | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1958 | L | Larry Zernitz | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Al Anderson | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Jimmy McMillan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1955 | L | Julio Mederos | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1954 | L | Charley Norkus | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | L | Don Cockell | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Rocky Marciano | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1953 | W | Rex Layne | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Rocky Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Dan Bucceroni | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Joe McFadden | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1952 | W | Ralph Schneider | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Bill Wilson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1951 | L | Dan Bucceroni | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Ted Lowry | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Gene Felton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1951 | W | Vern Mitchell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1951 | W | Keene Simmons | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Curt Kennedy | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1950 | W | Duilio Spagnolo | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Keene Simmons | Decision | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Georgie Fuller | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1950 | W | Jimmy Walls | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1950 | L | Rocky Marciano | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | César Brion | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Walter Hafer | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1949 | W | Joe Dominic | Decision | 6 |
| 1949 | W | Jackie Lyons | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1949 | W | Harry Haft | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1949 | W | Jimmy Carollo | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Eldridge Eatman | Decision | 8 |
| 1949 | W | Gino Buonvino | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1949 | W | Bill Weinberg | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Gene Gosney | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1948 | W | Don Mogard | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Mike Jacobs | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Mel McKinney | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | W | Teddy Georges | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1948 | W | Oscar Goode | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | W | Tony Gangemi | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Benny Rusk | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Freddie McManus | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | W | John Holloway | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1948 | W | Claude McClintock | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Steve King | Decision | 6 |
| 1948 | W | Jimmy White | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1948 | W | Frankie Reed | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | W | Mike Belluscio | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Luther McMillan | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Fred Ramsey | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Matt Mincy | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Lorne McCarthy | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Jimmy Evans | Decision | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Zeke Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1947 | W | Jim Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1947 | W | Jimmy Dodd | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Al Zappala | KO/TKO | 5 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
6 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Roland La Starza — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
72″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 17th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1940s — 35 of 62 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
57–9
66 bouts on record
Finish rate
47%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 14th percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 1947 to 1961. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1947–1961
Longest unbeaten run
39
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1948
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
62 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Roland La Starza's record?
- 57–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 bouts individually.
- How many of Roland La Starza's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 64. 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 Starza sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing35 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
36 FIGHTERS Rocky Marciano vs Roland La StarzaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1950 Longest unbeaten runsRoland La Starza went 39 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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