What is Wilfred Benítez's record?

53–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 63 bouts individually.

How many of Wilfred Benítez's bouts have no date?

2 of 63. 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.

Wilfred Benítez — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

53–8–1

Wilfred Benítez has a reach of 70″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for light middleweight boxing and the 5th percentile of the 78 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1973–1990 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Wilfred Benítez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29

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 2026-07-29. 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 78 light 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
1990	L	Scott Papasodora	Decision	10
1990	W	Sam Wilson	Decision	10
1990	L	Pat Lawlor	Decision	10
1990	W	Ariel Conde	KO/TKO	7
1986	L	Carlos Herrera	KO/TKO	7
1986	W	Harry Daniels	Decision	10
1986	W	Paul Whittaker	Decision	10
1986	L	Matthew Hilton	KO/TKO	9
1985	W	Kevin Moley	Decision	10
1985	W	Danny Chapman	KO/TKO	7
1985	W	Mauricio Bravo	KO/TKO	2
1984	L	Davey Moore	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Stacy McSwain	Decision	10
1983	L	Mustafa Hamsho	Decision	12
1983	W	Tony Cerda	Decision	10
1982	L	Thomas Hearns	Decision	15
1982	W	Roberto Durán	Decision	15
1981	W	Carlos Santos	Decision	15
1981	W	Maurice Hope	KO/TKO	12
1980	W	Pete Ranzany	Decision	10
1980	W	Tony Chiaverini	KO/TKO	8
1980	W	Johnny Turner	KO/TKO	9
1979	L	Sugar Ray Leonard	KO/TKO	15
1979	W	Harold Weston	Decision	15
1979	W	Carlos Palomino	Decision	15
1978	W	Vernon Lewis	Decision	10
1978	W	Randy Shields	KO/TKO	6
1978	W	Bruce Curry	Decision	10
1977	W	Bruce Curry	Decision	10
1977	W	Ray Chavez Guerrero	KO/TKO	15
1977	W	Easy Boy Lake	KO/TKO	1
1977	W	Roberto Gonzalez	KO/TKO	1
1977	W	Melvin Dennis	Decision	8
1977	D	Harold Weston	Decision	10
1976	W	Tony Petronelli	KO/TKO	3
1976	W	Emiliano Villa	Decision	15
1976	W	Antonio Cervantes	Decision	15
1975	W	Chris Fernandez	Decision	10
1975	W	Omar Ruben Realecio	KO/TKO	6
1975	W	Marcelino Alicia	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Young Woodall	KO/TKO	4
1975	W	Eyue Jeudy	KO/TKO	4
1975	W	Jim Henry	KO/TKO	8
1975	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1975	W	Santos Solis	Decision	10
1975	W	Wilbur Seales	KO/TKO	4
1975	W	Santiago Rosa	KO/TKO	4
1975	W	Francisco Rodriguez	KO/TKO	7
1974	W	Lawrence Hafey	Decision	8
1974	W	Terry Summerhays	KO/TKO	6
1974	W	Al Hughes	KO/TKO	5
1974	W	Easy Boy Lake	KO/TKO	5
1974	W	Carlos Crispin	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Ives St Jean	KO/TKO	1
1974	W	Juan Disla	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Victor Mangual	Decision	8
1974	W	Roberto Flanders	KO/TKO	4
1974	W	Joe York	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	Hector Amadis	KO/TKO	4
1973	W	Jesse Torres	KO/TKO	2

Showing 60 of 63 recorded bouts, most recent first.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Wilfred Benítez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

70″ reach on a 70″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 78 light middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.87%.

-1.5%light middleweight boxing reach advantage9.9%

Measurements
Reach	70″ (177.8 cm)	28th pct
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)	61st pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1970s — 39 of 61 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

53–8

62 bouts on record

Finish rate

58%

of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 42nd percentile

By knockout 58%
By decision 42%

The career, bout by bout

63 recorded bouts from 1973 to 1990. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1973–1990

Career span

18y

1973–1990

Longest unbeaten run

35

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1974

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

63

61 with a date

Closest in build

light middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Wilfred Benítez's record?: 53–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 63 bouts individually.
How many of Wilfred Benítez's bouts have no date?: 2 of 63. 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.

Cross-references

Light middleweight boxing

The 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Benítez sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

39 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Wilfred Benítez went 35 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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