What is Carlos Cruz's record?

42–13–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 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.

Carlos Cruz — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

42–13–2

Carlos Cruz has a reach of 68″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +3.04%, average for lightweight boxing and the 50th percentile of the 120 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1959–1970

SOURCE·Carlos Cruz (boxer) — 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 120 lightweight 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
1970	W	Benito Juarez	Decision	10
1969	W	Victor Melendez	Decision	10
1969	W	Len Kesey	KO/TKO	4
1969	W	Grady Ponder	Decision	10
1969	L	Mando Ramos	KO/TKO	11
1968	W	Hidemori Tsujimoto	Decision	10
1968	W	Mando Ramos	Decision	15
1968	W	Carlos Ortiz	Decision	15
1968	W	Julio Viera	Decision	10
1968	W	Johnny Bean	KO/TKO	2
1968	W	Chris Fernandez	KO/TKO	9
1967	W	Kennedy Clark	Decision	10
1967	W	Grady Ponder	Decision	10
1967	W	Frankie Narvaez	Decision	10
1966	L	Frankie Narvaez	Decision	10
1966	W	Fernand Simard	KO/TKO	10
1966	W	Vicente Milan Derado	Decision	10
1966	W	Bunny Grant	Decision	10
1966	D	Jaime Valladares	Decision	10
1965	W	Vicente Milan Derado	Decision	10
1965	W	Jose Chico Veliz	Decision	10
1965	W	Frankie Taylor	Decision	10
1965	W	Daniel Berrios	KO/TKO	1
1965	W	Alejandro Parra	KO/TKO	4
1965	W	Criscencio Fernandez	KO/TKO	3
1964	W	Marcos Morales	KO/TKO	2
1964	L	Julio Ruiz	Decision	10
1964	L	Carlos Morocho Hernández	KO/TKO	2
1964	W	Gilberto Biondi	Decision	12
1964	W	Guizani Rezgui	KO/TKO	11
1964	L	Graham Dicker	Decision	12
1963	L	Vicente Milan Derado	Decision	10
1963	W	Johnny Bean	Decision	10
1963	W	George Foster	Decision	8
1963	W	Roland Kellem	Decision	8
1963	W	Calvin Woodland	Decision	6
1962	W	Candy Parilla	Decision	6
1962	D	Freddie Jackson	Decision	6
1962	W	Sammy Burgess	Decision	10
1962	W	Alejandro Gonzalez	Decision	6
1962	W	Rafael Acevedo	Decision	12
1962	W	Jose Aneiro	KO/TKO	8
1961	W	Lionel Rivera	KO/TKO	8
1961	L	Daniel Berrios	Decision	4
1961	W	Gerardo Clemente	Decision	8
1961	L	Vernon Lynch	Decision	10
1960	W	Gerardo Clemente	KO/TKO	10
1960	L	Daniel Berrios	Decision	10
1960	W	Lionel Rivera	Decision	10
1960	L	Marcos Morales	Decision	10
1960	W	Bob Ashford	KO/TKO	3
1960	W	Estaquio Gonzalez	KO/TKO	5
1960	W	Jesus M Serrano	Decision	6
1959	W	Rafael Acevedo	Decision	10
1959	L	Juan Jimenez	Decision	8

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Carlos Cruz (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+3.04%

68″ reach on a 66″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%

Measurements
Reach	68″ (172.7 cm)	27th pct
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)	25th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing
Most active decade	1960s — 52 of 55 dated bouts
Country	Dominican Republic

Record

Boxing record

42–13

57 bouts on record

Finish rate

33%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 20th percentile

By knockout 33%
By decision 67%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 1959 to 1970. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1959–1970

Career span

12y

1959–1970

Longest unbeaten run

15

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1960

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

55 with a date

Closest in build

lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Carlos Cruz's record?: 42–13–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 55 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

Lightweight boxing

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

270 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

52 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Carlos Cruz went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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