What is James J. Braddock's record?

52–26–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 81 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.

James J. Braddock — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

52–26–7

James J. Braddock has a reach of 75″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +1.33%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 22nd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1926–1938

SOURCE·James J. Braddock — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03

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 2026-07-03. 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
1938	W	Tommy Farr	Decision	10
1937	L	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	8
1935	W	Max Baer	Decision	15
1935	W	Art Lasky	Decision	15
1934	W	John Henry Lewis	Decision	10
1934	W	Corn Griffin	KO/TKO	3
1933	?	Abe Feldman	—	6
1933	W	Chester Matan	Decision	10
1933	W	Les Kennedy	Decision	10
1933	L	Al Stillman	Decision	10
1933	L	Martin Levandowski	Decision	10
1933	L	Al Ettore	DQ	4
1933	L	Hans Birkie	Decision	10
1932	L	Lou Scozza	KO/TKO	6
1932	L	Tom Patrick	Decision	10
1932	W	Dynamite Jackson	Decision	10
1932	L	John Henry Lewis	Decision	10
1932	L	Tony Shucco	Decision	8
1932	W	Vicente Parrile	Decision	5
1932	L	Charley Retzlaff	Decision	10
1932	L	Baxter Calmes	Decision	10
1931	L	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1931	?	Maxie Rosenbloom	—	2
1931	L	Joe Sekyra	Decision	10
1931	D	Andy Mitchell	Decision	10
1931	W	Jack Kelly	Decision	10
1931	W	Jack Roper	KO/TKO	1
1931	L	Ernie Schaaf	Decision	10
1930	W	Phil Mercurio	KO/TKO	2
1930	L	Babe Hunt	Decision	10
1930	W	Joe Monte	Decision	10
1930	L	Harold Mays	Decision	10
1930	L	Billy Jones	Decision	10
1930	L	Leo Lomski	Decision	10
1929	W	Jake Warren	KO/TKO	2
1929	L	Maxie Rosenbloom	Decision	10
1929	L	Yale Okun	Decision	10
1929	L	Tommy Loughran	Decision	15
1929	W	Eddie Benson	KO/TKO	1
1929	W	Jimmy Slattery	KO/TKO	9
1929	W	George Gemas	KO/TKO	1
1929	L	Leo Lomski	Decision	10
1928	W	Tuffy Griffiths	KO/TKO	2
1928	W	Pete Latzo	Decision	10
1928	L	Joe Sekyra	Decision	10
1928	D	Nando Tassi	Decision	10
1928	D	Billy Vidabeck	Draw	10
1928	L	Joe Monte	Decision	10
1928	W	Jimmy Francis	—	10
1928	W	Jack Darnell	KO/TKO	4
1928	W	Paul Swiderski	Decision	8
1927	D	Joe Monte	Decision	10
1927	L	Herman Heller	—	10
1927	W	Vic McLaughlin	—	10
1927	W	George LaRocco	Decision	6
1927	W	Jimmy Francis	—	10
1927	L	Paul Cavalier	—	10
1927	W	Jack Stone	—	10
1927	W	Stanley Simmons	KO/TKO	1
1927	W	Frankie Lennon	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 81 recorded bouts, most recent first.

13 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·James J. Braddock — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.33%

75″ reach on a 74″ 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	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	—
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1920s — 47 of 81 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

52–26

88 bouts on record

Finish rate

52%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 20th percentile

By knockout 52%
By decision 48%

The career, bout by bout

81 recorded bouts from 1926 to 1938. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1926–1938

Career span

13y

1926–1938

Longest unbeaten run

13

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1926

15 bouts

Recorded bouts

81

81 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 James J. Braddock's record?: 52–26–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 81 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 Braddock sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

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

53 FIGHTERS James J. Braddock vs Tommy Farr

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

1938 Longest unbeaten runs

James J. Braddock went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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