Ingemar Johansson
70.1″ reach · -2.73% reach advantage · 2nd percentile
26–2
Ingemar Johansson has a reach of 70.1″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of -2.73%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 2nd percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Ingemar Johansson — 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 recordtemplate — 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
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | W | Brian London | Decision | 12 |
| 1962 | W | Dick Richardson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1962 | W | Wim Snoek | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1962 | W | Joe Bygraves | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1961 | L | Floyd Patterson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1961 | ? | Muhammad Ali | — | 3 |
| 1960 | L | Floyd Patterson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1959 | W | Floyd Patterson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1958 | W | Eddie Machen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1958 | W | Heinz Neuhaus | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1958 | W | Joe Erskine | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1957 | W | Archie McBride | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Henry Cooper | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1956 | W | Peter Bates | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1956 | W | Franco Cavicchi | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1956 | W | Hans Friedrich | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Joe Bygraves | Decision | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Hein ten Hoff | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1955 | W | Günter Nurnberg | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1955 | W | Uber Bacilieri | — | 8 |
| 1955 | W | Aldo Pellegrini | — | 5 |
| 1955 | W | Kurt Schiegl | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1955 | W | Ansell Adams | Decision | 8 |
| 1954 | W | Werner Wiegand | — | 5 |
| 1953 | W | Raymond Degl'lnnocenti | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1953 | W | Erik Jensen | Decision | 6 |
| 1953 | W | Lloyd Barnett | — | 8 |
| 1953 | W | Emile Bentz | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1952 | W | Robert Masson | — | 4 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ingemar Johansson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-2.73%
70.1″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 4th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (183 cm) | 22nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 22 of 29 dated bouts | |
| Country | Sweden |
Record
Boxing record
26–2
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
65%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 45th percentile
The career, bout by bout
29 recorded bouts from 1952 to 1963. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1952–1963
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1955
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
29
29 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Gunboat Smith-2.71% 72″ reach · 3rd pct
- Victor Emilio Ramírez-2.77% 69″ reach · 2nd pct
- Siarhei Liakhovich-2.07% 74.4″ reach · 3rd pct
- Mihai Nistor-3.83% 69.3″ reach · 2nd pct
- Patrick Mailata-1.52% 76.8″ reach · 3rd pct
- Nathan Gorman-3.94% 73″ reach · 1st pct
- Floyd Patterson-1.48% 71″ reach · 3rd pct
- Rocky Sekorski-1.39% 70″ reach · 4th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ingemar Johansson's record?
- 26–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 29 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Johansson sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing22 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Brian London vs Ingemar JohanssonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsIngemar Johansson went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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