What is Bob Olin's record?

55–27–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 77 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.

Bob Olin — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

55–27–4

Bob Olin has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, above average for light heavyweight boxing and the 57th percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1928–1939

SOURCE·Bob Olin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

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 2026-07-07. 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 98 light heavyweight 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
1939	W	Art 'Young' Campbell	KO/TKO	4
1939	L	Gus Lesnevich	Decision	12
1938	L	Al McCoy	Decision	10
1938	L	Buddy Knox	Decision	10
1938	L	Steve Dudas	Decision	10
1938	W	Tiger Hairston	KO/TKO	2
1937	L	Johnny Risko	Decision	10
1937	L	Leroy Haynes	KO/TKO	6
1937	W	Patsy Perroni	KO/TKO	3
1937	L	John Henry Lewis	KO/TKO	8
1937	W	Leonard Bostick	KO/TKO	1
1937	W	Gunnar Bärlund	Decision	10
1937	L	Tiger Jack Fox	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Buck Everett	KO/TKO	4
1936	L	Red Bruce	Decision	10
1936	W	Jimmy DeSola	Decision	8
1936	L	Tommy Farr	Decision	10
1935	L	Al McCoy	Decision	10
1935	L	John Henry Lewis	Decision	15
1935	W	Henry Firpo	KO/TKO	3
1935	W	Mickey Dugan	Decision	8
1935	L	Dutch Weimer	Decision	10
1935	W	Fanis Tzanetopoulos	Decision	10
1934	W	Maxie Rosenbloom	Decision	15
1934	D	Abe Feldman	Decision	10
1934	W	Bob Godwin	Decision	10
1934	L	Lou Brouillard	Decision	10
1933	W	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1933	W	Charley Massera	Decision	8
1933	W	Unknown Winston	Decision	6
1933	W	Sam Portney	Decision	10
1933	L	Tony Shucco	Decision	10
1933	W	Paul Marques	Decision	5
1932	L	Martin Levandowski	KO/TKO	5
1932	W	Tommy Walsh	Decision	6
1932	L	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1932	W	Muggs Kerr	Decision	8
1932	W	Dick Fullam	Decision	8
1932	L	Arthur Huttick	Decision	10
1932	L	Baxter Calmes	Decision	10
1931	W	Clyde Chastain	Decision	10
1931	W	Tait Littman	KO/TKO	4
1931	W	Don Petrin	KO/TKO	6
1931	W	Willie Bush	Decision	10
1931	L	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1931	W	Willard Dix	KO/TKO	1
1931	W	Tony Ferrante	KO/TKO	5
1931	L	Joe Banovic	Decision	10
1930	W	Joe Banovic	Decision	10
1930	W	Willard Dix	Decision	10
1930	W	Eddie Huelsebus	Decision	6
1930	W	Tommy Walsh	KO/TKO	3
1930	L	Joe Sekyra	Decision	10
1930	W	Ralph Ficucello	Decision	8
1930	W	Roy Wallace	DQ	8
1930	W	George LaRocco	Decision	6
1930	W	Italian Jack Herman	Decision	6
1930	W	Leo Williams	Decision	10
1929	L	Joe Banovic	Decision	10
1929	W	George LaRocco	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 77 recorded bouts, most recent first.

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Bob Olin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.87%

72″ reach on a 70″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	72″ (182.9 cm)	22nd pct
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)	16th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 58 of 77 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

55–27

86 bouts on record

Finish rate

45%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 29th percentile

By knockout 45%
By decision 55%

The career, bout by bout

77 recorded bouts from 1928 to 1939. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1928–1939

Career span

12y

1928–1939

Longest unbeaten run

17

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1929

15 bouts

Recorded bouts

77

77 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Bob Olin's record?: 55–27–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 77 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

Light heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Olin sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

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

71 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Bob Olin went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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