What is Gene Fullmer's record?

55–6–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 bouts individually.

How many of Gene Fullmer's bouts have no date?

1 of 59. 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.

Gene Fullmer — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

55–6–3

Gene Fullmer has a reach of 69″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +3%, above average for middleweight boxing and the 60th percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1951–1963 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Gene Fullmer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30

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 2026-07-30. 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 123 middleweight 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
1963	L	Dick Tiger	KO/TKO	7
1962	L	Dick Tiger	Decision	15
1961	W	Benny Paret	KO/TKO	10
1961	W	Florentino Fernández	Decision	15
1961	W	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15
1960	D	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15
1960	W	Carmen Basilio	KO/TKO	12
1960	D	Joey Giardello	Draw	15
1959	W	Ellsworth Webb	Decision	15
1959	W	Carmen Basilio	KO/TKO	14
1959	W	Wilf Greaves	Decision	10
1959	W	Milo Savage	Decision	10
1958	W	Joe Miceli	KO/TKO	2
1958	W	Ellsworth Webb	Decision	10
1958	W	Jim Hegerle	Decision	10
1958	W	Milo Savage	Decision	10
1957	W	Neal Rivers	Decision	10
1957	W	Chico Vejar	Decision	10
1957	W	Ralph 'Tiger' Jones	Decision	10
1957	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	KO/TKO	5
1957	W	Wilf Greaves	Decision	10
1956	W	Moses Ward	KO/TKO	3
1956	W	Charles Humez	Decision	10
1956	W	Ralph 'Tiger' Jones	Decision	10
1956	W	Gil Turner	Decision	10
1956	W	Rocky Castellani	—	10
1955	L	Eduardo Lausse	Decision	10
1955	L	Bobby Boyd	Decision	10
1955	W	Al Andrews	Decision	10
1955	W	Del Flanagan	Decision	10
1955	W	Gil Turner	Decision	10
1955	W	Govan Small	Decision	10
1955	W	Paul Pender	Decision	10
1955	W	Marcel Assire	Decision	10
1954	W	Peter Müller	Decision	10
1954	W	Jackie LaBua	Decision	10
1954	W	Dick Wolfe	KO/TKO	4
1954	W	Reno Abellira	Decision	10
1954	W	Govan Small	Decision	10
1954	W	Rio Rico	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Andy Anderson	—	7
1954	W	Charley Cato	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Kid Leon	KO/TKO	1
1952	W	Armando Cotero	—	6
1952	W	Mickey Rhodes	KO/TKO	6
1951	W	Baby Ray	KO/TKO	1
1951	W	Rudy Zadell	—	6
1951	W	Gary Hanley	KO/TKO	1
1951	W	Garth Panther	—	10
1951	W	Sam Healy	KO/TKO	4
1951	W	Charley Cato	KO/TKO	4
1951	W	Buddy Sloan	KO/TKO	2
1951	W	Carlos Martinez	—	1
1951	W	Lamar Peterson	KO/TKO	1
1951	W	Eddie Duffy	KO/TKO	2
1951	W	Gary Carr	KO/TKO	3
1951	W	Andy Jackson	KO/TKO	1
1951	W	Glen Peck	—	1
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Gene Fullmer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+3%

69″ reach on a 67″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	69″ (175.3 cm)	10th pct
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)	5th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1950s — 50 of 58 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

55–6

64 bouts on record

Finish rate

44%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 23rd percentile

By knockout 44%
By decision 56%

The career, bout by bout

59 recorded bouts from 1951 to 1963. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1951–1963

Career span

13y

1951–1963

Longest unbeaten run

24

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1951

13 bouts

Recorded bouts

59

58 with a date

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Gene Fullmer's record?: 55–6–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 bouts individually.
How many of Gene Fullmer's bouts have no date?: 1 of 59. 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.

Cross-references

Middleweight boxing

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

269 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

50 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 Gene Fullmer

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

1961 Longest unbeaten runs

Gene Fullmer went 24 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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