What is Benny Lynch's record?

88–14–17 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 93 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.

Benny Lynch — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

88–14–17

Benny Lynch has a reach of 65″ against a height of 64″ — a reach advantage of +1.54%, short for flyweight boxing and the 26th percentile of the 50 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1931–1938

SOURCE·Benny Lynch — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

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 2026-07-08. 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 50 flyweight 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	Aurel Toma	KO/TKO	3
1938	L	K.O. Morgan	Decision	12
1938	W	Jackie Jurich	KO/TKO	12
1938	D	Peter Kane	Decision	12
1938	W	Maurice Filhol	KO/TKO	5
1937	W	Georges Bataille	KO/TKO	8
1937	W	Peter Kane	KO/TKO	13
1937	W	Roy Underwood	KO/TKO	6
1937	L	Jimmy Warnock	Decision	15
1937	W	Len Hampston	KO/TKO	10
1937	W	Fortunato Ortega	Decision	12
1937	W	Small Montana	Decision	15
1936	W	Eric Jones	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Phil Milligan	KO/TKO	7
1936	W	Pat Palmer	KO/TKO	8
1936	W	Syd Parker	KO/TKO	9
1936	W	Pat Warburton	KO/TKO	3
1936	W	Mickey McGuire	KO/TKO	4
1936	L	Jimmy Warnock	Decision	12
1935	W	Phil Milligan	Decision	12
1935	W	Harry Orton	Decision	10
1935	W	Gaston Maton	Decision	12
1935	W	Jackie Brown	KO/TKO	2
1935	W	Charlie Hazel	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Tomas Pardoe	KO/TKO	14
1935	W	Bobby Magee	Decision	12
1934	W	Sandy McEwan	Decision	12
1934	W	Tut Whalley	DQ	8
1934	W	Johnny Griffiths	KO/TKO	1
1934	W	Peter Miller	KO/TKO	8
1934	W	Pedro Ruiz	Decision	12
1934	W	Billy Johnstone	KO/TKO	5
1934	W	Valentin Angelmann	Decision	12
1934	W	Jim Brady	Decision	12
1934	W	Maurice Huguenin	Decision	12
1934	W	Jim Campbell	Decision	15
1934	W	Evan Evans	KO/TKO	3
1934	W	George Lowe	KO/TKO	2
1934	W	Carlo Cavagnoli	Decision	10
1934	W	Freddy Webb	KO/TKO	3
1933	D	Bob Fielding	Decision	10
1933	W	Bert Kirby	Decision	12
1933	W	Boy Ian McIntosh	KO/TKO	4
1933	W	Willie Vogan	KO/TKO	2
1933	W	Joe Cowley	KO/TKO	7
1933	W	Alex Farries	KO/TKO	4
1933	W	Billy Kid Hughes	KO/TKO	9
1933	W	Billy Warnock	KO/TKO	11
1933	W	Jim Maharg	Decision	12
1933	W	Freddie Tennant	Decision	10
1933	D	Jim Brady	Decision	12
1933	W	Walter Lemmon	Decision	10
1933	D	Paddy Docherty	Decision	10
1933	L	Jimmy Young Knowles	Decision	12
1933	D	Jock Joe Aitken	Decision	10
1933	W	Joe Green	Decision	10
1933	W	Dan Conlin	Decision	10
1932	D	Freddie Tennant	Decision	10
1932	W	Jim Tiger Naughton	Decision	6
1932	W	Paddy Docherty	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 93 recorded bouts, most recent first.

5 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Benny Lynch — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.54%

65″ reach on a 64″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 50 flyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.09%.

-4.7%flyweight boxing reach advantage12.9%

Measurements
Reach	65″ (165.1 cm)	41st pct
Height	64″ (162.6 cm)	48th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Flyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 93 of 93 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

88–14

119 bouts on record

Finish rate

39%

of wins ended inside the distance — flyweight boxing median 47%, 35th percentile

By knockout 39%
By decision 61%

The career, bout by bout

93 recorded bouts from 1931 to 1938. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1931–1938

Career span

8y

1931–1938

Longest unbeaten run

29

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1932

20 bouts

Recorded bouts

93

93 with a date

Closest in build

flyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Benny Lynch's record?: 88–14–17 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 93 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

Flyweight boxing

The 170 flyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lynch sits inside.

170 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

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

71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Benny Lynch went 29 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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