What is José Ribalta's record?

38–17–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 58 bouts individually.

How many of José Ribalta's bouts have no date?

2 of 58. 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.

José Ribalta — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

38–17–1

José Ribalta has a reach of 80″ against a height of 78″ — a reach advantage of +2.57%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 33rd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1982–1999 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·José Ribalta — 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 317 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
1999	L	Donovan Ruddock	KO/TKO	1
1999	L	Chris Byrd	KO/TKO	3
1998	L	Vitali Klitschko	KO/TKO	2
1997	L	Larry Donald	KO/TKO	6
1996	L	Axel Schulz	Decision	10
1996	W	James Holley	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Bruce Johnson	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	Carlton West	KO/TKO	1
1995	W	George Harris	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	John Basil Jackson	Decision	8
1994	L	Joe Hipp	KO/TKO	2
1993	L	Tony Tubbs	Decision	3
1993	W	Derek Williams	Decision	3
1993	L	Larry Holmes	Decision	10
1993	W	Wes Turner	KO/TKO	4
1992	L	Michael Dokes	Decision	10
1992	L	Frank Bruno	KO/TKO	2
1991	L	Pierre Coetzer	Decision	10
1991	L	Bruce Seldon	—	3
1990	L	Tim Witherspoon	Decision	10
1990	W	Michael Johnson	KO/TKO	2
1989	W	Jose Allencastro	KO/TKO	2
1989	W	Jeff Sims	Decision	10
1989	W	Jerry Hairston	KO/TKO	1
1988	W	Jose Garcia	KO/TKO	1
1987	W	Steve Zouski	Decision	10
1987	W	Mark Young	Decision	10
1987	W	Leon Spinks	KO/TKO	1
1986	W	John Williams	KO/TKO	2
1986	L	Mike Tyson	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Rick Kellar	KO/TKO	1
1986	W	David Jaco	KO/TKO	5
1986	W	Jeff Freeney	KO/TKO	1
1986	W	Al Houck	KO/TKO	3
1985	L	Marvis Frazier	—	10
1985	W	Ernie Barr	Decision	10
1985	L	James Smith	—	10
1984	D	Cecil Coffee	Decision	10
1984	W	Nate Robinson	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Jimmy Jones	—	8
1983	W	Juan Antonio Figueroa	—	7
1983	W	Ishaq Hussein	KO/TKO	6
1983	W	Robert Evans	Decision	8
1983	W	Tom Prater	Decision	8
1983	W	Ron Harry	KO/TKO	6
1983	L	Ricardo Richardson	KO/TKO	7
1983	W	Miles Prince	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Nate Robinson	KO/TKO	5
1982	W	John L Johnson	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Al Leticky	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Curtis Gaskins	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Gabriel Saenz	KO/TKO	2
1982	W	Kenneth Wring	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Ken Davis	—	4
1982	W	Douglas Fowler	—	2
1982	W	J C Richardson	—	1
undated	W	Nate Robinson	—	—
undated	?	Opponent	—	—

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.57%

80″ reach on a 78″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	80″ (203.2 cm)	69th pct
Height	78″ (198.1 cm)	90th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1980s — 35 of 56 dated bouts
Country	Cuba

Record

Boxing record

38–17

56 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 57th percentile

By knockout 71%
By decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

58 recorded bouts from 1982 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1982–1999

Career span

18y

1982–1999

Longest unbeaten run

14

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1982

9 bouts

Recorded bouts

58

56 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is José Ribalta's record?: 38–17–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 58 bouts individually.
How many of José Ribalta's bouts have no date?: 2 of 58. 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Ribalta sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

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

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

José Ribalta went 14 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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