Buddy Baer
84″ reach · +5.02% reach advantage · 64th percentile
59–7
Buddy Baer has a reach of 84″ against a height of 80″ — a reach advantage of +5.02%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 64th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Buddy Baer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 317 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1941 | L | Joe Louis | DQ | 7 |
| 1941 | W | Tony Galento | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1941 | L | Eddie Blunt | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Harold Blackshear | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1940 | W | Valentin Campolo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1940 | W | Nathan Mann | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1938 | W | Lee Savold | — | 8 |
| 1938 | W | Charley Neaves | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1938 | W | Maxie Doyle | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1938 | W | Sandy McDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1938 | W | Big Boy Brackey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1938 | W | Chuck Crowell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | L | Gunnar Bärlund | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1937 | W | Eddie Hogan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1937 | W | Abe Simon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1937 | W | Jack London | Decision | 10 |
| 1937 | W | Jim Wilde | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Patrick Michael Barry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Salvatore Ruggirello | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Art Oliver | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Babe Davis | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Verne Trickle | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1936 | W | Pret Ferrar | — | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Fred Schultz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Babe Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Jack Conroy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | James J. Russell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Don Baxter | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Bill Devere | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Mickey Simpson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Ray Jarecki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Rags Wood | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | James Merriott | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Charles Montgomery | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | L | Andre Lenglet | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Jack Petric | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Harold Murphy | Decision | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Wally Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | L | Ford Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | W | Jack Doyle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Artie Suess | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Al Delaney | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Frank Wotanski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Big Boy Brackey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Ed Anderson | Decision | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Tommy Davenport | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | John "Corn" Griffin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1935 | W | Harry Nelson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1935 | W | Frank Connolly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | W | Monty Hogan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1935 | L | Babe Hunt | Decision | 4 |
| 1935 | W | Jack O'Dowd | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Gene Stanton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Henry Surrette | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Bumbo Myers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1934 | W | Bob Cook | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Mickey McGoorty | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Red Fields | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1934 | W | Johnny Baker | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 65 recorded bouts, most recent first.
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Buddy Baer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.02%
84″ reach on a 80″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 84″ (213.4 cm) | 94th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 80″ (203.2 cm) | 97th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 58 of 65 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
59–7
66 bouts on record
Finish rate
90%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 91st percentile
The career, bout by bout
65 recorded bouts from 1934 to 1942. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1934–1942
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1936
21 bouts
Recorded bouts
65
65 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Lance Whitaker+5.02% 84″ reach · 64th pct
- Deontay Wilder+5.03% 83″ reach · 64th pct
- Filip Hrgović+5.05% 81.9″ reach · 65th pct
- Tyson Fury+4.96% 85″ reach · 63rd pct
- Quintín Romero Rojas+4.92% 75.6″ reach · 63rd pct
- Derrick Jefferson+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Gerald Washington+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Jameel McCline+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Buddy Baer's record?
- 59–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 65 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Baer sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing58 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Buddy Baer vs Tony GalentoA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1941 Longest unbeaten runsBuddy Baer went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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