What is John Henry Lewis's record?

101–11–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 108 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.

John Henry Lewis — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

101–11–5

John Henry Lewis has a reach of 71″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for light heavyweight boxing and the 16th percentile of the 98 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1929–1939

SOURCE·John Henry Lewis — 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 98 light 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

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
1939	L	Joe Louis	KO/TKO	1
1938	W	Al Gainer	Decision	15
1938	W	Jimmy Adamick	Decision	10
1938	W	Domenico Ceccarelli	KO/TKO	3
1938	W	Elmer Ray	KO/TKO	12
1938	W	Emilio Martinez	KO/TKO	4
1938	W	Bob Tow	Decision	10
1938	W	Bud Mignault	Decision	10
1938	W	Fred Lenhart	KO/TKO	3
1938	W	Emil Scholz	Decision	10
1938	W	Leroy Neblett	KO/TKO	3
1938	W	Marty Gallagher	KO/TKO	3
1938	W	Leonard Neblett	KO/TKO	8
1937	W	Johnny Risko	Decision	10
1937	W	Isidoro Gastanaga	KO/TKO	9
1937	W	Salvatore Ruggirello	KO/TKO	4
1937	W	Italo Colonello	Decision	12
1937	W	Willie Reddish	Decision	10
1937	W	Al Ettore	Decision	15
1937	W	Bob Olin	KO/TKO	8
1937	W	Jack Kranz	KO/TKO	3
1937	W	Patsy Perroni	Decision	10
1937	W	Emilio Martinez	Decision	10
1937	W	Pret Ferrar	KO/TKO	6
1937	W	Harold Murphy	KO/TKO	4
1937	W	Babe Davis	KO/TKO	3
1937	W	Don Barry	KO/TKO	5
1937	W	Hans Birkie	Decision	10
1937	W	Chester Palutis	KO/TKO	7
1937	W	Art Sykes	KO/TKO	6
1936	W	Len Harvey	Decision	15
1936	W	Red Burman	KO/TKO	2
1936	W	Tiger Hairston	KO/TKO	1
1936	W	George Nichols	Decision	10
1936	W	Al Gainer	Decision	12
1936	W	Max Marek	Decision	10
1936	W	James Merriott	KO/TKO	3
1936	W	Tony Shucco	KO/TKO	8
1936	W	Dutch Weimer	KO/TKO	5
1936	W	John Andersson	Decision	10
1936	W	Bob Godwin	KO/TKO	1
1936	W	Charley Massera	Decision	10
1936	W	Izzy Singer	Decision	10
1936	W	Jock McAvoy	Decision	15
1936	W	Eddie Simms	Decision	10
1936	W	Cyclone Lynch	KO/TKO	3
1936	L	Emilio Martinez	Decision	10
1936	W	Al Stillman	KO/TKO	4
1936	W	Tiger Jack Fox	KO/TKO	3
1935	W	Dutch Weimer	Decision	10
1935	W	Coleman Johns	KO/TKO	2
1935	W	George Simpson	KO/TKO	2
1935	L	Maxie Rosenbloom	Decision	10
1935	W	Bob Olin	Decision	15
1935	L	Abe Feldman	Decision	10
1935	W	Lou Poster	KO/TKO	5
1935	W	Izzy Singer	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Tom Patrick	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Frank Rowsey	Decision	10
1935	W	Emilio Martinez	Decision	10

Showing 60 of 108 recorded bouts, most recent first.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·John Henry Lewis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

71″ reach on a 71″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Measurements
Reach	71″ (180.3 cm)	13th pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	28th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1930s — 105 of 108 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

101–11

117 bouts on record

Finish rate

57%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 47th percentile

By knockout 57%
By decision 43%

The career, bout by bout

108 recorded bouts from 1929 to 1939. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1929–1939

Career span

11y

1929–1939

Longest unbeaten run

31

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1936

19 bouts

Recorded bouts

108

108 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is John Henry Lewis's record?: 101–11–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 108 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 heavyweight boxing

The 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lewis sits inside.

212 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing

105 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

71 FIGHTERS Joe Louis vs John Henry Lewis

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1939 Longest unbeaten runs

John Henry Lewis went 31 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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