What is Battling Nelson's record?

69–33–27 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 127 bouts individually.

How many of Battling Nelson's bouts have no date?

1 of 127. 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.

Battling Nelson — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

69–33–27

Battling Nelson finished 58% of 69 wins inside the distance — the 60th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1899–1917 · EARLIEST 6 NOT SHOWN · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Battling Nelson — 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 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1917	L	Freddie Welsh	—	12
1917	W	Pierce Matthews	KO/TKO	8
1915	L	Jimmy Reagan	Decision	10
1915	L	Bobby Waugh	Decision	20
1915	W	Dale Gardner	KO/TKO	2
1915	W	Jimmy Fryer	Decision	25
1915	W	Stewart Donnelly	KO/TKO	3
1913	W	Cliff Ford	Decision	6
1913	L	Ad Wolgast	—	10
1913	L	Pat Bradley	—	6
1913	L	Gilbert Gallant	Decision	12
1913	D	Bay Wood	Decision	12
1913	W	Mike Malone	—	10
1913	L	Frank Ray Whitney	—	10
1913	W	Joe Burke	—	10
1913	W	Harry Dillon	KO/TKO	10
1913	W	Jack Sorenson	—	10
1913	L	Frankie Russell	Decision	10
1912	L	Yankee Schwartz	—	8
1912	D	Jim Bonner	Decision	10
1912	D	Teddy Maloney	Draw	6
1912	L	Leach Cross	—	10
1912	W	Art Stewart	—	10
1912	D	Steve Ketchel	Decision	15
1912	L	Mickey MacIntyre	—	12
1912	W	Andy Bezenah	—	12
1912	D	Sammy Trott	Decision	15
1912	D	Young Togo	Decision	6
1912	L	Tommy O'Rourke	—	10
1911	W	Jack Redmond	Decision	20
1911	L	One Round Hogan	—	10
1911	W	Willie Howard	—	10
1911	W	Bobby Wilson	—	10
1911	D	Andy Bezenah	Draw	10
1911	W	Joseph Spero	KO/TKO	6
1911	D	Louis De Ponthieu	Draw	10
1911	W	Tommy Moore	KO/TKO	9
1911	D	Frank Loughrey	Draw	10
1911	W	Monte Dale	Decision	15
1911	L	George Alger	—	6
1911	L	Philadelphia Pal Moore	Decision	12
1911	W	Willie Beecher	—	10
1911	L	Milburn Saylor	Decision	12
1911	W	Billy Nixon	KO/TKO	10
1911	W	Tommy Gaffney	KO/TKO	5
1911	D	Percy Cove	Decision	6
1910	L	Owen Moran	KO/TKO	11
1910	D	Anton LaGrave	Decision	15
1910	W	Monte Dale	KO/TKO	3
1910	L	Ad Wolgast	KO/TKO	40
1910	W	Eddie Lang	KO/TKO	8
1909	L	Ad Wolgast	—	10
1909	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	5
1909	W	Dick Hyland	KO/TKO	23
1908	W	Joe Gans	KO/TKO	21
1908	D	Abe Attell	Decision	15
1908	D	Jimmy Britt	Draw	10
1908	L	Rudy Unholz	—	10
1908	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	5
1907	L	Jimmy Britt	Decision	20

Showing 60 of 127 recorded bouts, most recent first.

17 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing
Most active decade	1900s — 67 of 126 dated bouts
Country	Kingdom of Denmark

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Battling Nelson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1896–1917

Record

Boxing record

69–33

134 bouts on record

Finish rate

58%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 60th percentile

By knockout 58%
By decision 42%

The career, bout by bout

127 recorded bouts from 1896 to 1917. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

22y

1896–1917

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1911

17 bouts

Recorded bouts

127

126 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Battling Nelson's record?: 69–33–27 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 127 bouts individually.
How many of Battling Nelson's bouts have no date?: 1 of 127. 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

Lightweight boxing

The 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Nelson sits inside.

270 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Battling Nelson went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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