What is Gene Tunney's record?

80–1–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 80 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.

Gene Tunney — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

80–1–3

Gene Tunney has a reach of 76″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +5.52%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 73rd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1915–1928

SOURCE·Gene Tunney — 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 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 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

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
1928	W	Tom Heeney	KO/TKO	11
1927	W	Jack Dempsey	Decision	10
1926	W	Jack Dempsey	Decision	10
1925	W	Dan O'Dowd	KO/TKO	2
1925	W	Johnny Risko	—	12
1925	W	Bartley Madden	KO/TKO	3
1925	W	Italian Jack Herman	KO/TKO	2
1925	W	Tommy Gibbons	KO/TKO	12
1925	W	Harry Greb	—	10
1924	W	Jeff Smith	—	15
1924	W	Buddy McHale	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Harry Foley	KO/TKO	1
1924	W	Ray Neuman	Decision	10
1924	D	Harry Greb	Draw	10
1924	W	Joe Lohman	KO/TKO	8
1924	W	Georges Carpentier	KO/TKO	15
1924	W	Erminio Spalla	KO/TKO	7
1924	W	Jimmy Delaney	—	10
1924	W	Martin Burke	Decision	15
1924	W	Ray Thompson	KO/TKO	2
1923	W	Harry Greb	Decision	15
1923	W	Dan O'Dowd	Decision	12
1923	W	Jimmy Delaney	—	10
1923	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	8
1923	W	Chuck Wiggins	Decision	12
1923	?	Jack Renault	—	4
1922	W	Charley Weinert	KO/TKO	4
1922	W	Jack Hanlon	KO/TKO	1
1922	W	Chuck Wiggins	Decision	10
1922	W	Tommy Loughran	—	8
1922	W	Ray Thompson	KO/TKO	3
1922	W	Fay Keiser	Decision	12
1922	L	Harry Greb	—	15
1922	W	Jack Burke	KO/TKO	9
1922	W	Whitey Wenzel	KO/TKO	4
1922	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	6
1922	W	Battling Levinsky	Decision	12
1921	W	Eddie O'Hare	KO/TKO	6
1921	W	Wolf Larsen	KO/TKO	7
1921	W	Jack Burke	KO/TKO	3
1921	W	Herbert Crossley	Decision	7
1921	W	Eddie Josephs	Decision	12
1921	W	Martin Burke	Decision	10
1921	W	Soldier Jones	KO/TKO	7
1921	W	Johnny Ambrose	KO/TKO	1
1920	W	Leo Hauck	—	10
1920	W	Paul Samson Koerner	—	10
1920	W	Sergeant Ray Smith	KO/TKO	2
1920	W	Ole Anderson	KO/TKO	3
1920	W	Jeff Madden	KO/TKO	2
1920	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	3
1920	W	K.O. Sullivan	KO/TKO	1
1920	W	Ed Kinley	KO/TKO	5
1920	W	Al Roberts	KO/TKO	8
1920	W	Jim Monahan	KO/TKO	1
1920	W	Bud Nelson	KO/TKO	1
1920	W	Whitey Allen	KO/TKO	2
1919	W	Bob Pearce	KO/TKO	2
1919	W	Dan O'Dowd	—	8
1919	W	Ted Jamison	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 80 recorded bouts, most recent first.

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Gene Tunney — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.52%

76″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	76″ (193 cm)	32nd pct
Height	72″ (182.9 cm)	17th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1920s — 57 of 80 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

80–1

85 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

80 recorded bouts from 1915 to 1928. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1915–1928

Career span

14y

1915–1928

Longest unbeaten run

47

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1920

12 bouts

Recorded bouts

80

80 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Gene Tunney's record?: 80–1–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 80 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

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tunney sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

57 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

53 FIGHTERS Battling Levinsky vs Gene Tunney

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

1922 Longest unbeaten runs

Gene Tunney went 47 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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