What is Carmen Basilio's record?

56–16–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 68 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.

Carmen Basilio — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

56–16–7

Carmen Basilio finished 48% of 56 wins inside the distance — the 28th percentile for middleweight boxing, where the median is 60%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1948–1961

SOURCE·Carmen Basilio — 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 256 middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1961	L	Paul Pender	Decision	15
1961	W	Don Jordan	Decision	10
1961	W	Gaspar Ortega	Decision	10
1960	L	Gene Fullmer	KO/TKO	12
1959	L	Gene Fullmer	KO/TKO	14
1959	W	Arley Seifer	KO/TKO	3
1958	W	Art Aragon	KO/TKO	8
1958	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15
1957	W	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15
1957	W	Harold Jones	KO/TKO	4
1957	W	Johnny Saxton	KO/TKO	2
1956	W	Johnny Saxton	KO/TKO	9
1955	W	Tony DeMarco	KO/TKO	12
1955	W	Gil Turner	Decision	10
1955	W	Italo Scortichini	Decision	10
1955	W	Peter Müller	Decision	10
1954	W	Ronnie Harper	KO/TKO	3
1954	W	Allie Gronik	Decision	10
1954	W	Carmine Fiore	Decision	10
1954	W	Al Andrews	Decision	10
1954	W	Italo Scortichini	Decision	10
1954	W	Pierre Langlois	Decision	10
1953	D	Pierre Langlois	Decision	10
1953	W	Johnny Cunningham	KO/TKO	4
1953	L	Kid Gavilan	Decision	15
1953	D	Billy Graham	Decision	12
1953	W	Carmine Fiore	KO/TKO	9
1953	W	Vic Cardell	Decision	10
1953	W	Ike Williams	Decision	10
1952	W	Chuck Foster	KO/TKO	5
1952	W	Sammy Giuliani	KO/TKO	3
1952	W	Baby Williams	Decision	10
1952	L	Billy Graham	Decision	10
1952	L	Chuck Davey	Decision	10
1952	W	Jackie O'Brien	Decision	10
1952	W	Jimmy Cousins	Decision	8
1952	W	Emmett Norris	Decision	10
1951	L	Ross Virgo	Decision	10
1951	W	Shamus McCray	Decision	8
1951	L	Johnny Cesario	Decision	10
1951	L	Lester Felton	Decision	10
1951	W	Eddie Giosa	Decision	10
1951	W	Floro Hita	Decision	8
1950	L	Vic Cardell	Decision	10
1950	L	Eddie Giosa	Decision	10
1950	W	Guillermo Gimenez	KO/TKO	8
1950	W	Gaby Ferland	KO/TKO	1
1950	L	Mike Koballa	Decision	8
1950	W	Lew Jenkins	Decision	10
1950	W	Adrien Mourguiart	KO/TKO	7
1950	W	Cassell Tate	Decision	8
1950	W	Sonny Jim Hampton	Decision	8
1949	W	Johnny Parker	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Tony DiPelino	Decision	8
1949	W	Johnny Cunningham	Decision	8
1949	W	Sammy Daniels	Decision	8
1949	W	Jesse Bradshaw	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Johnny Clemons	KO/TKO	3
1949	L	Connie Thies	Decision	6
1949	W	Elliot Throop	KO/TKO	1

Showing 60 of 68 recorded bouts, most recent first.

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1950s — 48 of 68 dated bouts
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Carmen Basilio, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1948–1961

Record

Boxing record

56–16

79 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 28th percentile

By knockout 48%
By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

68 recorded bouts from 1948 to 1961. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

14y

1948–1961

Longest unbeaten run

18

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1949

12 bouts

Recorded bouts

68

68 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Carmen Basilio's record?: 56–16–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 68 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

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Basilio sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

48 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

49 FIGHTERS Carmen Basilio vs Ike Williams

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1953 Longest unbeaten runs

Carmen Basilio went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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