Joe Cortez
13–1 · 13 recorded bouts · 1962–1970
13–1
Joe Cortez finished 15% of 13 wins inside the distance — the 5th percentile for featherweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Joe Cortez — 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 237 featherweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 | W | Sal Lacheppele | Decision | 4 |
| 1966 | W | Durango Kid | Decision | 6 |
| 1966 | W | Hector Rodriguez | Decision | 6 |
| 1966 | W | Angel Rivera | Decision | 6 |
| 1965 | W | Luis Molinares | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1965 | W | Paul Sebastian | Decision | 4 |
| 1964 | W | Katsutomi Takano | Decision | 4 |
| 1964 | W | Paul Sebastian | Decision | 4 |
| 1963 | L | George Foster | Decision | 6 |
| 1963 | W | Eliseo García | Decision | 4 |
| 1963 | W | Cosme Rodriguez | Decision | 4 |
| 1963 | W | Bobby Harmon | Decision | 4 |
| 1962 | W | Tony Salgado | KO/TKO | 2 |
SOURCE·Joe Cortez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1960s — 12 of 13 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Joe Cortez, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
13–1
14 bouts on record
Finish rate
15%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 5th percentile
The career, bout by bout
13 recorded bouts from 1962 to 1970. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
1962–1970
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1963
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
13
13 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joe Cortez's record?
- 13–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 13 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.
Where this record leads
The 247 featherweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Cortez sits inside.
247 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing12 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJoe Cortez went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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