What is Joe Manley's record?

29–8–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 37 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.

Joe Manley — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

29–8–2

Joe Manley has a reach of 67″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of -1.45%, unusually short for light welterweight boxing and the 7th percentile of the 97 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1981–1989

SOURCE·Joe Manley — 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 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 97 light welterweight 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
1989	L	Buddy McGirt	KO/TKO	9
1989	W	Donnie Poole	Decision	10
1989	L	Henry Anaya Jr	KO/TKO	5
1989	L	Loreto Garza	KO/TKO	7
1988	W	Ray Gastellum	KO/TKO	1
1988	D	Luis Mora	Decision	8
1988	L	Dexter Smith	KO/TKO	2
1987	W	Martin Quiroz	Decision	10
1987	L	Terry Marsh	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Gary Hinton	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Sammy Young	Decision	6
1986	W	Howard Davis Jr.	Decision	10
1985	W	Frank Montgomery	Decision	10
1985	D	Gary Hinton	Decision	12
1985	W	George Brown	KO/TKO	7
1985	L	Ronnie Shields	Decision	12
1985	W	Freddie Pendleton	Decision	10
1984	W	Terry Whittaker	KO/TKO	7
1984	W	Charlie Allen	KO/TKO	7
1984	W	Victor Babilonia	Decision	10
1984	W	Andre Wynn	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Cesar Guzman	Decision	8
1984	W	Bobby Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1983	L	Gene Hatcher	Decision	12
1983	W	Al Carter	KO/TKO	7
1983	W	Darrell Mitchell	KO/TKO	1
1983	W	Glenn Burnett	KO/TKO	3
1983	W	Thomas Baker	Decision	10
1982	L	Harry Arroyo	Decision	10
1982	W	Arturo Leon	Decision	10
1982	W	Carlos Santana	Decision	8
1982	W	Mike Blunt	KO/TKO	6
1982	W	James Singleton	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	David Brown	Decision	8
1982	W	Cedric Barkley	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Terry Butler	KO/TKO	4
1981	W	Maurice Saalakhan	Decision	6

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Joe Manley — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.45%

67″ reach on a 68″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 97 light welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.34%.

-3%light welterweight boxing reach advantage8.9%

Measurements
Reach	67″ (170.2 cm)	12th pct
Height	68″ (172.7 cm)	45th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Welterweight Boxing
Most active decade	1980s — 37 of 37 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

29–8

39 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — light welterweight boxing median 56%, 33rd percentile

By knockout 48%
By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

37 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1989. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1981–1989

Career span

9y

1981–1989

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1982

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

37

37 with a date

Closest in build

light welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Joe Manley's record?: 29–8–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 37 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

Light welterweight boxing

The 182 light welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Manley sits inside.

182 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

37 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Joe Manley went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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