What is Jake LaMotta's record?

83–19–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 88 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.

Jake LaMotta — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

83–19–4

Jake LaMotta has a reach of 67″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of -1.45%, unusually short for light heavyweight boxing and the 4th percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1941–1954

SOURCE·Jake LaMotta — 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 98 light 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
1954	L	Billy Kilgore	Decision	10
1954	W	Al McCoy	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Johnny Pretzie	KO/TKO	4
1952	L	Danny Nardico	KO/TKO	7
1952	W	Bob Murphy	Decision	10
1952	W	Eugene Hairston	Decision	10
1952	W	Norman Hayes	Decision	10
1951	L	Irish Bob Murphy	KO/TKO	7
1951	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	KO/TKO	13
1950	W	Laurent Dauthuille	KO/TKO	15
1950	W	Tiberio Mitri	Decision	15
1950	W	Joe Taylor	Decision	10
1950	W	Chuck Hunter	KO/TKO	6
1950	W	Dick Wagner	KO/TKO	9
1949	L	Robert Villemain	Decision	10
1949	W	Marcel Cerdan	—	9
1949	W	Joey DeJohn	KO/TKO	8
1949	W	O'Neill Bell	KO/TKO	4
1949	L	Laurent Dauthuille	Decision	10
1948	W	Tommy Yarosz	Decision	10
1948	W	Vern Lester	Decision	10
1948	W	Johnny Colan	KO/TKO	10
1948	W	Burl Charity	KO/TKO	5
1948	W	Ken Stribling	KO/TKO	5
1947	L	Billy Fox	KO/TKO	4
1947	L	Cecil Hudson	Decision	10
1947	W	Tony Janiro	Decision	10
1947	W	Tommy Bell	Decision	10
1946	W	Anton Raadik	Decision	10
1946	W	O'Neill Bell	KO/TKO	2
1946	W	Bob Satterfield	KO/TKO	7
1946	W	Holman Williams	Decision	10
1946	D	Jimmy Edgar	Decision	10
1946	W	Joe Reddick	Decision	10
1946	W	Marcus Lockman	Decision	10
1946	W	Tommy Bell	Decision	10
1945	W	Charley Parham	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Walter Woods	KO/TKO	8
1945	W	Coolidge Miller	KO/TKO	3
1945	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	12
1945	W	George Kochan	KO/TKO	9
1945	W	José Basora	KO/TKO	9
1945	W	Tommy Bell	Decision	10
1945	W	Bert Lytell	Decision	10
1945	W	Vic Dellicurti	Decision	10
1945	W	George Costner	KO/TKO	6
1945	W	Lou Schwartz	KO/TKO	1
1944	W	George Kochan	KO/TKO	9
1944	L	Lloyd Marshall	Decision	10
1944	W	Lou Woods	Decision	10
1944	W	Coley Welch	Decision	10
1944	W	Ossie Harris	Decision	10
1944	W	Fritzie Zivic	Decision	10
1943	W	Fritzie Zivic	Decision	10
1943	W	Johnny Walker	KO/TKO	2
1943	W	José Basora	Decision	10
1943	W	Tony Ferrara	KO/TKO	6
1943	W	Ossie Harris	Decision	10
1943	W	Jimmy Reeves	KO/TKO	6
1943	L	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 88 recorded bouts, most recent first.

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.45%

67″ reach on a 68″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	67″ (170.2 cm)	0th pct
Height	68″ (172.7 cm)	4th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1940s — 74 of 88 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

83–19

106 bouts on record

Finish rate

36%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 17th percentile

By knockout 36%
By decision 64%

The career, bout by bout

88 recorded bouts from 1941 to 1954. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1941–1954

Career span

14y

1941–1954

Longest unbeaten run

14

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1941

15 bouts

Recorded bouts

88

88 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Jake LaMotta's record?: 83–19–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 88 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

Light heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution LaMotta sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

74 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Jake LaMotta vs Marcel Cerdan

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

1949 Longest unbeaten runs

Jake LaMotta went 14 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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