What is Rubin Carter's record?

27–12–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 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.

Rubin Carter — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

27–12–1

Rubin Carter has a reach of 72″ against a height of 68.1″ — a reach advantage of +5.72%, long for middleweight boxing and the 81st percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1961–1966

SOURCE·Rubin Carter — 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
1966	L	Juan Carlos Rivero	Decision	10
1966	D	Wilbert McClure	Decision	10
1966	W	Ernest Burford	KO/TKO	8
1966	L	Stan Harrington	Decision	10
1966	L	Johnny Morris	Decision	10
1965	W	Joe N'Gidi	KO/TKO	2
1965	L	Luis Manuel Rodríguez	Decision	10
1965	W	Fate Davis	KO/TKO	1
1965	L	Dick Tiger	Decision	10
1965	W	Johnny Torres	KO/TKO	8
1965	L	Harry Scott	Decision	10
1965	W	Fabio Bettini	KO/TKO	10
1964	L	Joey Giardello	Decision	15
1964	W	Clarence James	KO/TKO	1
1964	W	Jimmy Ellis	Decision	10
1963	W	Emile Griffith	KO/TKO	1
1963	L	Joey Archer	Decision	10
1963	W	Farid Salim	Decision	10
1963	W	George Benton	Decision	10
1963	L	Jose Gonzalez	KO/TKO	6
1963	W	Gomeo Brennan	Decision	10
1962	W	Holley Mims	Decision	10
1962	W	Florentino Fernández	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Mel Collins	KO/TKO	5
1962	W	Ernest Burford	KO/TKO	2
1962	W	Sugar Boy Nando	KO/TKO	3
1962	W	Walter Daniels	KO/TKO	2
1962	W	Johnny Tucker	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Jimmy McMillan	KO/TKO	3
1962	W	Felix Santiago	KO/TKO	1
1962	W	Tommy Settles	KO/TKO	1
1962	L	Herschel Jacobs	Decision	6
1961	W	Herschel Jacobs	Decision	4
1961	W	Frank Nelson	KO/TKO	1
1961	W	Joey Cooper	KO/TKO	2
1961	W	Pike Reed	Decision	4

8 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.72%

72″ reach on a 68.1″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	72″ (182.9 cm)	48th pct
Height	68.1″ (173 cm)	19th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1960s — 36 of 36 dated bouts
Country	Canada

Record

Boxing record

27–12

40 bouts on record

Finish rate

70%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 73rd percentile

By knockout 70%
By decision 30%

The career, bout by bout

36 recorded bouts from 1961 to 1966. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1961–1966

Career span

6y

1961–1966

Longest unbeaten run

14

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1962

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

36

36 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 Rubin Carter's record?: 27–12–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 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

Middleweight boxing

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

269 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

36 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Rubin Carter vs Wilbert McClure

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

1966 Longest unbeaten runs

Rubin Carter went 14 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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