What is Barney Ross's record?

74–4–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 74 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.

Barney Ross — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

74–4–3

Barney Ross has a reach of 67″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for welterweight boxing and the 9th percentile of the 130 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1929–1938

SOURCE·Barney Ross — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

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 2026-07-06. 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 130 welterweight 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
1938	L	Henry Armstrong	Decision	15
1938	W	Bobby Venner	KO/TKO	7
1938	W	Henry Schaft	KO/TKO	4
1937	W	Ceferino Garcia	Decision	15
1937	W	Al Manfredo	—	10
1937	W	Jackie Burke	KO/TKO	5
1937	W	Chuck Woods	KO/TKO	4
1936	W	Izzy Jannazzo	Decision	15
1936	W	Phil Furr	Decision	10
1936	W	Morrie Sherman	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Laddie Tonielli	KO/TKO	5
1936	W	Chuck Woods	KO/TKO	5
1936	W	Gordon Wallace	Decision	10
1936	W	Lou Halper	KO/TKO	8
1935	W	Ceferino Garcia	Decision	10
1935	W	Baby Joe Gans	KO/TKO	2
1935	W	Jimmy McLarnin	Decision	15
1935	W	Henry Woods	Decision	12
1935	W	Frankie Klick	Decision	10
1934	W	Bobby Pacho	Decision	12
1934	L	Jimmy McLarnin	Decision	15
1934	W	Kid Moro	Decision	10
1934	D	Frankie Klick	Decision	10
1934	W	Pete Nebo	Decision	12
1934	W	Billy Petrolle	Decision	10
1933	W	Sammy Fuller	Decision	10
1933	W	Tony Canzoneri	Decision	15
1933	W	Johnny Farr	KO/TKO	6
1933	W	Joe Ghnouly	Decision	10
1933	W	Billy Petrolle	Decision	10
1933	W	Tommy Grogan	Decision	10
1933	W	Johnny Datto	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	Johnny Farr	Decision	10
1932	W	Goldie Hess	Decision	10
1932	W	Battling Battalino	Decision	10
1932	W	Frankie Petrolle	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	Ray Miller	Decision	10
1932	W	Henry Perlick	KO/TKO	3
1932	W	Dick Sisk	KO/TKO	6
1932	W	Frankie Hughes	Decision	10
1932	W	Nick Ellenwood	Decision	10
1932	W	Billy Gladstone	Decision	6
1932	W	Micky O'Neill	Decision	6
1931	W	Jimmy Lundy	Decision	8
1931	W	Young Terry	Decision	8
1931	W	Lou Jallos	Decision	8
1931	W	Glen Gamp	Decision	10
1931	W	Jimmy Alvarado	Decision	8
1931	W	Babe Ruth	KO/TKO	4
1931	W	Billy Shaw	Decision	8
1931	W	Jackie Dugan	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Lud Abella	KO/TKO	2
1931	W	Midget Mike O'Dowd	Decision	8
1931	L	Roger Bernard	Decision	8
1931	W	Jackie Davis	Decision	6
1931	W	Henry Falegano	Decision	8
1930	D	Harry Dublinsky	Decision	8
1930	W	Petey Mack	KO/TKO	1
1930	W	Sammy Binder	KO/TKO	2
1930	D	Young Terry	Decision	8

Showing 60 of 74 recorded bouts, most recent first.

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Barney Ross — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

67″ reach on a 67″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%welterweight boxing reach advantage9.4%

Measurements
Reach	67″ (170.2 cm)	11th pct
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)	18th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing competed at 3: lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1930s — 69 of 74 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

74–4

81 bouts on record

Finish rate

30%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 15th percentile

By knockout 30%
By decision 70%

The career, bout by bout

74 recorded bouts from 1929 to 1938. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1929–1938

Career span

10y

1929–1938

Longest unbeaten run

21

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1930

13 bouts

Recorded bouts

74

74 with a date

Closest in build

welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Barney Ross's record?: 74–4–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 74 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

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Ross sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

69 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Barney Ross went 21 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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