Joe Brown
68″ reach · +1.47% reach advantage · 31st percentile
122–47–14
Joe Brown has a reach of 68″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +1.47%, short for lightweight boxing and the 31st percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Joe Brown (boxer) — 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 120 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | L | Dave Oropeza | Decision | 10 |
| 1970 | W | Ramon Flores | Decision | 10 |
| 1969 | D | Steve Freeman | Decision | 10 |
| 1968 | L | Chucho Garcia | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1968 | L | Ricardo Medrano | Decision | 10 |
| 1968 | L | Chango Carmona | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1968 | W | Vic Graffio | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1967 | W | Nat Jackson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1967 | W | Benito Juarez | Decision | 10 |
| 1967 | L | Percy Pugh | Decision | 10 |
| 1967 | W | Joe Barrientes | Decision | 10 |
| 1967 | W | Blackie Zamora | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1966 | W | Rodwell LeKay | Decision | 10 |
| 1966 | L | Joe N'Gidi | Decision | 10 |
| 1966 | L | Joe Ngidi | Decision | 10 |
| 1966 | W | Enoch Nhlapo | Decision | 10 |
| 1966 | W | Josiah Nakedi | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1966 | D | Jarmo Berglöf | Decision | 10 |
| 1966 | L | Bruno Arcari | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | L | Frankie Narvaez | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | L | Mario Rossito | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | L | Antonio Herrera | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Blackie Zamora | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | L | Joey Olguin | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | L | Vic Andreetti | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1965 | L | Joe N'Gidi | Decision | 10 |
| 1965 | W | Levi Madi | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Joas Kangaroo Maoto | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1964 | W | Levi Madi | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | L | Percy Hayles | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Hector Diaz | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1964 | L | Ricardo Medrano | DQ | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Esteban Santamaria | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | L | Paul Armstead | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | W | Tony Perez | Decision | 10 |
| 1964 | L | Manuel Gonzalez | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | L | Carlos Morocho Hernández | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1963 | W | Pedro Galasso | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1963 | L | Nicolino Locche | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | L | Alfredo Urbina | Decision | 10 |
| 1963 | W | Joey Lopes | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1963 | W | Manuel Alvarez | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1963 | L | Dave Charnley | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1963 | W | Tony Noriega | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1962 | L | Luis Molina | Decision | 10 |
| 1962 | L | Carlos Ortiz | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | W | Bert Somodio | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | W | Dave Charnley | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | W | Joey Parks | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | L | Giordano Campari | Decision | 10 |
| 1960 | W | Cisco Andrade | Decision | 15 |
| 1960 | W | Raymundo Torres | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1960 | W | Harlow Irwin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1960 | L | Ray Portilla | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1959 | W | Joey Parks | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Dave Charnley | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1959 | W | Gale Kerwin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1959 | W | Santiago Ramirez | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1959 | W | Paolo Rosi | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1959 | W | Johnny Busso | Decision | 15 |
Showing 60 of 169 recorded bouts, most recent first.
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joe Brown (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.47%
68″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 27th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1950s — 66 of 168 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
122–47
185 bouts on record
Finish rate
46%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 38th percentile
The career, bout by bout
169 recorded bouts from 1941 to 1970. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1941–1970
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1947
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
169
168 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Genaro Hernández+1.44% 72″ reach · 29th pct
- Ernesto España+1.44% 72″ reach · 29th pct
- Anthony Baltazar+1.43% 70″ reach · 28th pct
- Rafael Limón+1.51% 66″ reach · 32nd pct
- Jesús Chávez+1.51% 66″ reach · 32nd pct
- Rodolfo González+1.43% 70″ reach · 28th pct
- Hector Luis Garcia+1.51% 69″ reach · 32nd pct
- Fritzie Zivic+1.41% 71″ reach · 27th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joe Brown's record?
- 122–47–14 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 169 bouts individually.
- How many of Joe Brown's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 169. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Brown sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing66 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
49 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJoe Brown went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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