Joe Gans
71″ reach · +7.58% reach advantage · 96th percentile
157–12–22
Joe Gans has a reach of 71″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +7.58%, exceptional for lightweight boxing and the 96th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Joe Gans — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | W | Jabez White | — | 10 |
| 1908 | L | Battling Nelson | KO/TKO | 21 |
| 1908 | W | Rudy Unholz | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1908 | W | Frank 'Spike' Robson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1908 | W | Bob Blackburn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1907 | W | George Memsic | Decision | 20 |
| 1907 | W | Jimmy Britt | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1907 | W | Kid Herman | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1906 | W | Battling Nelson | DQ | 42 |
| 1906 | W | Dave Holly | Decision | 20 |
| 1906 | W | Jack Blackburn | — | 6 |
| 1906 | D | Harry Lewis | Draw | 6 |
| 1906 | L | Willie Lewis | — | 6 |
| 1906 | W | Mike "Twin" Sullivan | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1906 | W | Mike 'Twin' Sullivan | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1905 | D | Mike 'Twin' Sullivan | Decision | 15 |
| 1905 | W | Rufe Turner | — | 6 |
| 1904 | W | Jimmy Britt | DQ | 5 |
| 1904 | D | Barbados Joe Walcott | Decision | 20 |
| 1904 | D | Dave Holly | Draw | 6 |
| 1904 | W | Sammy Smith | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Kid Griffo | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1904 | W | Jewey Cook | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1904 | W | Sam Bolen | Decision | 15 |
| 1904 | W | Gus Gardner | Decision | 10 |
| 1904 | W | Jack Blackburn | Decision | 15 |
| 1904 | W | Mike Ward | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1904 | W | Joe Grim | Decision | 10 |
| 1904 | W | Clarence Connors | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1904 | W | Willie Fitzgerald | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | L | Sam Langford | Decision | 15 |
| 1903 | W | Dave Holly | — | 6 |
| 1903 | L | Jack Blackburn | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Eddie Kennedy | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Joe Grim | — | 6 |
| 1903 | W | Buddy King | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1903 | W | Willie Fitzgerald | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1903 | W | Tom Tracey | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1903 | W | Jack Bennett | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1903 | W | Steve Crosby | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1903 | W | Gus Gardner | DQ | 11 |
| 1902 | D | Charley Siegar | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Howard Wilson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Dave Holly | — | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Kid McPartland | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1902 | W | Jack Bennett | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Gus Gardner | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1902 | W | Rufe Turner | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1902 | W | George 'Elbows' McFadden | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | W | St. Mary's County Bully | DQ | 3 |
| 1902 | W | Charles Boyer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Edward Snowden | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Joe Burke | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Frank Erne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1902 | W | Jack Ryan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1902 | W | Eddie Connolly | DQ | 5 |
| 1902 | W | Tom Broderick | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1901 | W | Joe Youngs | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1901 | W | Bobby Dobbs | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1901 | W | Billy Moore | KO/TKO | 3 |
Showing 60 of 176 recorded bouts, most recent first.
23 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joe Gans — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.58%
71″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 72nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 25th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1890s — 91 of 175 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
157–12
197 bouts on record
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 71st percentile
The career, bout by bout
176 recorded bouts from 1893 to 1909. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1893–1909
Longest unbeaten run
36
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1895
24 bouts
Recorded bouts
176
175 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Emanuel Navarrete+7.46% 72″ reach · 95th pct
- Abdullah Mason+7.24% 74″ reach · 94th pct
- Cassius Baloyi+7.14% 75″ reach · 93rd pct
- Robert Easter Jr.+7.04% 76″ reach · 93rd pct
- Arash Usmanee+8.67% 74″ reach · 97th pct
- Vicente Escobedo+8.86% 74″ reach · 98th pct
- Young Griffo+6.21% 68″ reach · 91st pct
- Sugar Ramos+6.21% 68″ reach · 91st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joe Gans's record?
- 157–12–22 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 176 bouts individually.
- How many of Joe Gans's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 176. 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.