Johnny Bratton
60–24 · 78 recorded bouts · 1944–1955
60–24–3
Johnny Bratton finished 57% of 60 wins inside the distance — the 54th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Johnny Bratton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08
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 2026-07-08. 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 292 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | L | Del Flanagan | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1954 | L | Chico Varona | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | L | Johnny Saxton | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | L | Kid Gavilán | Decision | 15 |
| 1953 | W | Al Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Danny Womber | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Livio Minelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1953 | W | Bobby Jones | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1953 | W | Jesús Portuguéz | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1952 | L | Ralph Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Joe Miceli | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1952 | W | Ralph Zannelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Irvin Steen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1952 | W | Laurent Dauthuille | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1952 | L | Rocky Castellani | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Del Flanagan | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Pierre Langlois | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1952 | W | Vic Cardell | Decision | 10 |
| 1952 | W | Bobby Rosado | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1951 | W | Livio Minelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | D | Kid Gavilán | Decision | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Wilbur Wilson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1951 | W | Don Williams | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1951 | W | Charley Fusari | Decision | 15 |
| 1951 | W | Bobby Dykes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Sammy Mastrean | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1950 | W | Lester Felton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1950 | L | Holley Mims | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Johnny Cesario | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1950 | L | Ike Williams | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1950 | W | Gene Hairston | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1949 | W | Gaby Ferland | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1949 | W | Chuck Taylor | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1949 | W | Ramón Álvarez | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1949 | W | Frankie Vigeant | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1949 | W | Chester Rico | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1949 | L | Ike Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1949 | W | Melvin Bartholomew | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Joe Brown | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1948 | D | Bobby Lee | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | L | Bernard Docusen | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Luigi Valentini | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1948 | W | Frankie Abrams | Decision | 8 |
| 1948 | W | Jackie Solomon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1948 | L | Beau Jack | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1948 | L | Livio Minelli | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Phil Palmer | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1947 | L | Gene Burton | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Herbie Jones | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1947 | L | Sammy Angott | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Danny Kapilow | Decision | 10 |
| 1947 | W | Morris Reif | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Willie Joyce | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Richard Polite | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1946 | W | Eddie Lander | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Roy Cadle | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1946 | W | Bill Eddy | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Pedro Firpo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1946 | W | Freddie Dawson | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | L | Ike Williams | Decision | 10 |
Showing 60 of 78 recorded bouts, most recent first.
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Johnny Bratton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-08
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1940s — 46 of 77 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Johnny Bratton, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
60–24
87 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 54th percentile
The career, bout by bout
78 recorded bouts from 1944 to 1955. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1944–1955
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1945
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
78
77 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Johnny Bratton's record?
- 60–24–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 78 bouts individually.
- How many of Johnny Bratton's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 78. 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 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Bratton sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing46 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
36 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJohnny Bratton went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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