What is Willie Pep's record?

229–11–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 222 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.

Willie Pep — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

229–11–1

Willie Pep has a reach of 68″ against a height of 65″ — a reach advantage of +4.6%, long for featherweight boxing and the 77th percentile of the 101 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1947–1966 · EARLIEST 102 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Willie Pep — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

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 2026-07-25. 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 101 featherweight 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	Calvin Woodland	Decision	6
1965	W	Ray Coleman	KO/TKO	5
1965	W	Sergio Musquiz	KO/TKO	5
1965	W	Tommy Haden	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	Willie Little	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	Johnny Gilmore	Decision	6
1965	W	Benny 'Red' Randall	Decision	10
1965	W	Jackie Lennon	Decision	6
1959	W	Harold McKeever	Decision	8
1959	L	Sonny Leon	Decision	10
1958	L	Hogan 'Kid' Bassey	KO/TKO	9
1958	W	Al Duarte	Decision	10
1958	W	Jesse Rodriguez	Decision	10
1958	W	Luis Carmona	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Bell	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Soares	Decision	10
1958	W	Pat McCoy	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Singleton	Decision	10
1958	W	Jimmy Kelly	Decision	10
1958	W	Cleo Ortiz	Decision	10
1958	W	George Stephany	Decision	10
1958	W	Prince Johnson	Decision	10
1958	L	Tommy Tibbs	Decision	10
1957	W	Jimmy Connors	Decision	10
1957	W	Russell Tague	Decision	10
1957	W	Manny Castro	Decision	10
1957	W	Cesar Morales	Decision	10
1956	W	Hector Bacquettes	KO/TKO	5
1956	W	Russell Tague	KO/TKO	6
1956	W	Manuel Armenteros	KO/TKO	6
1956	W	Jackie Blair	Decision	10
1956	W	Buddy Baggett	Decision	10
1956	W	Kid Campeche	Decision	10
1955	W	Andy Arel	Decision	10
1955	W	Leo Carter	KO/TKO	4
1955	W	Henry 'Pappy' Gault	Decision	10
1955	W	Charley Titone	Decision	10
1955	W	Jimmy Ithia	KO/TKO	6
1955	W	Hector Rodriguez	Decision	10
1955	W	Mickey Mars	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Joey Cam	KO/TKO	3
1955	W	Gil Cadilli	Decision	10
1955	W	Myrel Olmstead	Decision	10
1954	W	Mario 'Eladio' Colon	Decision	10
1954	W	Til LeBlanc	Decision	10
1954	W	Mike Tourcotte	Decision	10
1954	L	Lulu Perez	KO/TKO	2
1954	W	Davey Seabrook	Decision	10
1953	W	Tony Longo	Decision	10
1953	W	Billy Lima	KO/TKO	2
1953	W	Davey Allen	Decision	10
1953	W	Sonny Luciano	Decision	10
1953	W	Pat Marcune	KO/TKO	10
1953	W	Jackie Blair	Decision	10
1953	W	Noel Paquette	Decision	10
1953	W	Joey Gambino	Decision	10
1953	W	Pepe Alvarez	Decision	10
1953	W	Dave Mitchell	Decision	10
1953	W	Billy Lauderdale	Decision	10
1952	W	Jorge Sanchez	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 222 recorded bouts, most recent first.

22 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Willie Pep — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.6%

68″ reach on a 65″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 101 featherweight boxing fighters. Median 3%.

-3.7%featherweight boxing reach advantage9.3%

Measurements
Reach	68″ (172.7 cm)	51st pct
Height	65″ (165.1 cm)	24th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Featherweight Boxing
Most active decade	1940s — 133 of 222 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

229–11

241 bouts on record

Finish rate

28%

of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 15th percentile

By knockout 28%
By decision 72%

The career, bout by bout

222 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1966. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1940–1966

Career span

27y

1940–1966

Longest unbeaten run

55

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1942

22 bouts

Recorded bouts

222

222 with a date

Closest in build

featherweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Willie Pep's record?: 229–11–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 222 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

Featherweight boxing

The 247 featherweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Pep sits inside.

247 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

133 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Sandy Saddler vs Willie Pep

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

1948 Longest unbeaten runs

Willie Pep went 55 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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