What is Henry Cooper's record?

40–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 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.

Henry Cooper — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

40–14–1

Henry Cooper has a reach of 75″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +2.75%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 39th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1954–1971

SOURCE·Henry Cooper — 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 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
1971	L	Joe Bugner	Decision	15
1970	W	Jose Manuel Urtain	KO/TKO	9
1970	W	Jack Bodell	Decision	15
1969	W	Piero Tomasoni	KO/TKO	5
1968	W	Karl Mildenberger	DQ	8
1967	W	Billy Walker	KO/TKO	6
1967	W	Jack Bodell	KO/TKO	2
1967	W	Boston Jacobs	Decision	10
1966	L	Floyd Patterson	KO/TKO	4
1966	L	Muhammad Ali	KO/TKO	6
1966	W	Jefferson Davis	KO/TKO	1
1966	W	Hubert Hilton	KO/TKO	2
1965	L	Amos Johnson	Decision	10
1965	W	Johnny Prescott	KO/TKO	10
1965	W	Matthew Johnson	KO/TKO	1
1965	W	Dick Wipperman	KO/TKO	5
1964	L	Roger Rischer	Decision	10
1964	W	Brian London	Decision	15
1963	L	Cassius Clay	KO/TKO	5
1963	W	Dick Richardson	KO/TKO	5
1962	W	Joe Erskine	KO/TKO	9
1962	W	Wayne Bethea	Decision	10
1962	W	Tony Hughes	—	5
1961	L	Zora Folley	KO/TKO	2
1961	W	Joe Erskine	KO/TKO	5
1960	W	Alex Miteff	Decision	10
1960	W	Roy Harris	Decision	10
1959	W	Joe Erskine	KO/TKO	12
1959	W	Gawie de Klerk	KO/TKO	5
1959	W	Brian London	Decision	15
1958	W	Zora Folley	Decision	10
1958	W	Dick Richardson	KO/TKO	5
1958	L	Erich Schoppner	DQ	6
1958	D	Heinz Neuhaus	Draw	10
1957	W	Hans Kalbfell	Decision	10
1957	L	Joe Erskine	Decision	15
1957	L	Ingemar Johansson	KO/TKO	5
1957	L	Joe Bygraves	KO/TKO	9
1956	L	Peter Bates	KO/TKO	5
1956	W	Giannino Orlando Luise	KO/TKO	7
1956	W	Brian London	KO/TKO	1
1956	W	Maurice Mols	KO/TKO	4
1955	L	Joe Erskine	Decision	10
1955	W	Uber Bacilieri	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Ron Harman	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Joe Bygraves	Decision	8
1955	W	Joe Crickmar	KO/TKO	5
1955	W	Hugh Ferns	—	2
1955	W	Cliff Purnell	—	6
1955	W	Colin Strauch	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Denny Ball	KO/TKO	3
1954	W	Eddie Keith	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Dinny Powell	—	4
1954	W	Harry Painter	—	1

19 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.75%

75″ reach on a 73″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	75″ (190.5 cm)	24th pct
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)	27th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1950s — 27 of 54 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

40–14

55 bouts on record

Finish rate

68%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 50th percentile

By knockout 68%
By decision 33%

The career, bout by bout

54 recorded bouts from 1954 to 1971. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1954–1971

Career span

18y

1954–1971

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1955

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

54

54 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 Henry Cooper's record?: 40–14–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 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 Cooper sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

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

49 FIGHTERS Henry Cooper vs Karl Mildenberger

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

1968 Longest unbeaten runs

Henry Cooper went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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