Joe Bugner
82″ reach · +7.93% reach advantage · 84th percentile
69–13–1
Joe Bugner has a reach of 82″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +7.93%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Joe Bugner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
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 2026-08-02. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | W | Levi Billups | DQ | 9 |
| 1998 | W | James Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Bob Mirovic | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Colin Wilson | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Waisiki Ligaloa | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1996 | W | Young Haumona | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1996 | L | Scott Welch | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1996 | W | West Turner | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Vince Cervi | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | L | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Greg Page | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | David Bey | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | James Tillis | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | L | Steffen Tangstad | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Anders Eklund | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | L | Marvis Frazier | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Danny Sutton | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1983 | W | John Dino Denis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Eddie Neilson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | W | Winston Allen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | L | Earnie Shavers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1980 | W | Gilberto Acuna | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1979 | ? | Muhammad Ali | — | — |
| 1977 | L | Ron Lyle | Decision | 12 |
| 1976 | ? | Richard Dunn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1975 | L | Muhammad Ali | Decision | 15 |
| 1975 | W | Dante Cane | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1974 | W | Santiago Alberto Lovell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1974 | W | Jimmy Ellis | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Jose Luis Garcia | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1974 | W | Piermario Baruzzi | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1974 | W | Pat Duncan | Decision | 10 |
| 1974 | ? | Muhammad Ali | — | — |
| 1973 | W | Mac Foster | Decision | 10 |
| 1973 | W | Giuseppe Ros | Decision | 15 |
| 1973 | L | Joe Frazier | Decision | 12 |
| 1973 | L | Muhammad Ali | Decision | 12 |
| 1973 | W | Rudie Lubbers | Decision | 15 |
| 1972 | W | Dante Cane | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1972 | W | Tony Doyle | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1972 | W | Jürgen Blin | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1972 | W | Paul Nielsen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1972 | W | Doug Kirk | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1972 | W | Marc Hans | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1972 | W | Leroy Caldwell | DQ | 5 |
| 1972 | W | Brian O'Melia | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1971 | L | Larry Middleton | Decision | 10 |
| 1971 | W | Mike Boswell | Decision | 10 |
| 1971 | L | Jack Bodell | Decision | 15 |
| 1971 | W | Jürgen Blin | Decision | 15 |
| 1971 | W | Henry Cooper | Decision | 15 |
| 1971 | D | Bill Drover | Decision | 10 |
| 1971 | W | Carl Gizzi | Decision | 10 |
| 1970 | W | Miguel Angel Paez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1970 | W | George Johnson | Decision | 10 |
| 1970 | W | Hector Eduardo Corletti | Decision | 10 |
| 1970 | W | Chuck Wepner | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1970 | W | Brian London | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1970 | W | Ray Patterson | Decision | 8 |
| 1970 | W | Manuel Ramos | Decision | 4 |
Showing 60 of 85 recorded bouts, most recent first.
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joe Bugner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.93%
82″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 82″ (208.3 cm) | 83rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 40 of 84 dated bouts | |
| Country | Hungary |
Record
Boxing record
69–13
83 bouts on record
Finish rate
59%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 33rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
85 recorded bouts from 1967 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
33y
1967–1999
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1969
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
85
84 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Travis Walker+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Abe Simon+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- James Smith+7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Larry Donald+7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Larry Holmes+7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Fres Oquendo+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
- BJ Flores+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
- John Ruiz+8.09% 80″ reach · 86th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joe Bugner's record?
- 69–13–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 85 bouts individually.
- How many of Joe Bugner's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 85. 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 Bugner sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing40 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Joe Bugner vs Rudi LubbersA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsJoe Bugner went 16 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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