Tony Zale
69″ reach · +3% reach advantage · 60th percentile
67–18–2
Tony Zale has a reach of 69″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +3%, above average for middleweight boxing and the 60th percentile of the 123 compared here.
SOURCE·Tony Zale — 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | L | Marcel Cerdan | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1948 | W | Rocky Graziano | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1948 | W | Lou Woods | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1948 | W | Bobby Claus | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | W | Al Turner | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1947 | L | Rocky Graziano | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Cliff Beckett | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1947 | W | Al Timmons | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1947 | W | Tommy Charles | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1947 | W | Len Wadsworth | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1947 | W | Deacon Logan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1946 | W | Rocky Graziano | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1946 | W | Eddie Rossi | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1946 | W | Ira Hughes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1946 | W | Bobby Claus | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1946 | W | Oscar Boyd | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1946 | W | Tony Gillo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1946 | W | Bobby Giles | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1942 | L | Billy Conn | Decision | 12 |
| 1941 | W | Georgie Abrams | Decision | 15 |
| 1941 | W | Billy Pryor | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1941 | W | Ossie Harris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1941 | W | Al Hostak | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1941 | W | Steve Mamakos | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1941 | W | Tony Martin | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1940 | W | Fred Apostoli | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | L | Billy Soose | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Al Hostak | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1940 | W | Baby Kid Chocolate | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1940 | W | Ben Brown | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1940 | W | Enzo Iannozzi | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1939 | W | Babe Orgovan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1939 | W | Eddie Meleski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1939 | W | Al Wardlow | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1939 | W | Sherman Edwards | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1939 | W | Milton Shivers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1939 | W | Johnny Shaw | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1939 | L | Nate Bolden | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Enzo Innazzi | Decision | 6 |
| 1938 | W | Jimmy Clark | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1938 | W | Tony Cisco | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | L | Billy Celebron | Decision | 10 |
| 1938 | W | Bobby LaMonte | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1938 | W | King Wyatt | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | W | Henry Schaft | Decision | 8 |
| 1938 | W | Nate Bolden | Decision | 8 |
| 1937 | W | Nate Bolden | Decision | 5 |
| 1937 | W | Leon Jackson | Decision | 6 |
| 1937 | W | Bobby Gerry | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1937 | W | Billy Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1937 | W | Elby Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1937 | L | Manuel Davila | Decision | 4 |
| 1936 | D | Jack Moran | Decision | 5 |
| 1935 | L | Dave Clark | Decision | 5 |
| 1935 | L | Johnny Phagan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1935 | L | Roughhouse Glover | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1935 | W | Max Elling | Decision | 8 |
| 1935 | W | Young Jack Blackburn | Decision | 6 |
| 1934 | L | Joey Bazzone | Decision | 6 |
| 1934 | L | Jack Gibbons | Decision | 10 |
Showing 60 of 79 recorded bouts, most recent first.
10 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tony Zale — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3%
69″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 10th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 5th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 46 of 77 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
67–18
87 bouts on record
Finish rate
67%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
79 recorded bouts from 1934 to 1948. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1934–1948
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1934
19 bouts
Recorded bouts
79
77 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Arthur King+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Verno Phillips+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Gene Fullmer+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Vito Antuofermo+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Don Fullmer+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Rodrigo Valdez+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Mike O'Dowd+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Henry Armstrong+3.09% 67″ reach · 64th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tony Zale's record?
- 67–18–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 79 bouts individually.
- How many of Tony Zale's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 79. 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 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Zale sits inside.
269 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing46 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Marcel Cerdan vs Tony ZaleA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1948 Longest unbeaten runsTony Zale went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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