Benny Kid Paret
35–12 · 45 recorded bouts · 1954–1962
35–12–3
Benny Kid Paret finished 29% of 35 wins inside the distance — the 14th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Benny Paret — 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 recordtemplate — 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 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | L | Emile Griffith | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1961 | L | Gene Fullmer | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Emile Griffith | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | L | Gaspar Ortega | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Luis Federico Thompson | Decision | 15 |
| 1960 | L | Denny Moyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Garnet Hart | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1960 | W | Don Jordan | Decision | 15 |
| 1960 | W | Charley Scott | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Charley Scott | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Bob Provizzi | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | D | José Torres | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Gaspar Ortega | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Rudy Sawyer | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Eddie Thompson | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | L | Cecil Shorts | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Victor Zalazar | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Victor Zalazar | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Barry Allison | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Andy Figaro | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1958 | L | Luis Manuel Rodríguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Augustin Rosales | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1958 | W | Eddie Armstrong | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | D | Bobby Shell | Decision | 6 |
| 1958 | W | Tony Armenteros | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Rolando Rodriguez | Decision | 8 |
| 1958 | W | Regino Bravo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1957 | W | Rolando Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1957 | W | Carlos Chibas | Decision | 8 |
| 1957 | L | Guillermo Diaz | Decision | 8 |
| 1957 | W | Oscar Campos | Decision | 8 |
| 1956 | L | Rolando Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Carlos Chibas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Leocadio Villafanas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1956 | W | Tony Caspita | Decision | 8 |
| 1956 | W | Reinaldo Cabellero | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1956 | W | Jose Delgado | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1955 | W | Joaquin Castillo | Decision | 6 |
| 1955 | W | Jose Delgado | Decision | 6 |
| 1955 | W | Sandalio Santana | Decision | 6 |
| 1955 | W | Miguel Cutino | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1955 | W | Joel Morales | Decision | 4 |
| 1955 | W | Esmerido Moya | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1954 | W | Oscar Campos | Decision | 6 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Benny Paret — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 35 of 44 dated bouts | |
| Country | Cuba |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Benny Kid Paret, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
35–12
50 bouts on record
Finish rate
29%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 14th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1954 to 1962. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1954–1962
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1958
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
44 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Benny Kid Paret's record?
- 35–12–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 bouts individually.
- How many of Benny Kid Paret's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 45. 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.
Where this record leads
The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Paret sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing35 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Benny Kid Paret vs José Louis TorresA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsBenny Kid Paret went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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