Jack Sharkey
72″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
38–14–3
Jack Sharkey has a reach of 72″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Jack Sharkey — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Phil Brubaker | Decision | 10 |
| 1936 | D | Tony Shucco | Decision | 10 |
| 1935 | W | Unknown Winston | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1933 | L | Tommy Loughran | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | L | King Levinsky | Decision | 10 |
| 1933 | L | Primo Carnera | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1932 | W | Max Schmeling | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | W | Primo Carnera | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | D | Mickey Walker | Decision | 15 |
| 1930 | L | Max Schmeling | DQ | 4 |
| 1930 | W | Phil Scott | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1929 | W | Tommy Loughran | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1929 | W | Young Stribling | Decision | 10 |
| 1929 | W | Meyer Christner | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Arthur De Kuh | Decision | 10 |
| 1928 | W | Leo Gates | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1928 | W | Jack Delaney | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1928 | L | Johnny Risko | Decision | 15 |
| 1928 | D | Tom Heeney | Decision | 12 |
| 1927 | L | Jack Dempsey | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1927 | W | Jim Maloney | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1927 | W | Mike McTigue | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1926 | W | Homer Smith | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1926 | W | Harry Wills | DQ | 13 |
| 1926 | W | George Godfrey | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Orlando Reverberi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1926 | W | Bud Gorman | DQ | 1 |
| 1926 | W | Pat McCarthy | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Emilio Solomon | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Eddie Huffman | Decision | 10 |
| 1926 | W | Mexican Joe Lawson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1925 | W | Jim Maloney | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Johnny Risko | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | L | Bud Gorman | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Emilio Solomon | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | George Cook | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Jack Renault | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | L | Charley Weinert | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Sully Montgomery | Decision | 10 |
| 1925 | W | Jack DeMave | Decision | 10 |
| 1924 | L | Charley Weinert | — | 12 |
| 1924 | L | Jim Maloney | Decision | 10 |
| 1924 | L | Quintin Romero Rojas | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1924 | W | Young Jack Johnson | — | 6 |
| 1924 | W | Al Roberts | Decision | 10 |
| 1924 | W | Homer Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1924 | W | Floyd Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1924 | W | Eddie Ricord | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1924 | W | Dan Lucas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1924 | W | Pat Hance | DQ | 2 |
| 1924 | W | Billy Muldoon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jack Sharkey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
72″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 17th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1920s — 40 of 52 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
38–14
55 bouts on record
Finish rate
34%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 6th percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 1924 to 1936. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1924–1936
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1924
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
52 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jack Sharkey's record?
- 38–14–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 bouts individually.
- How many of Jack Sharkey's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 53. 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sharkey sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing40 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
53 FIGHTERS Jack Sharkey vs Max SchmelingA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1930 Longest unbeaten runsJack Sharkey went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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