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José Santa Cruz

74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 84th percentile

Boxing record

28–5

José Santa Cruz has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, long for lightweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 120 compared here.

UNFILEDloss v Zab Judah, no date on recordwin v Anthony Mora, no date on recordwin v Sergio Macias, no date on recordloss v Antonio Pitalúa, no date on recordwin v Miguel Angel Munguia, no date on recordloss v Joel Casamayor, no date on recordwin v Dairo Esalas, no date on recordwin v Luis Arceo, no date on recordloss v David Díaz, no date on recordwin v Chikashi Inada, no date on recordwin v Edner Cherry, no date on recordwin v Michael Lozada, no date on recordloss v Fernando Trejo, no date on recordwin v Ernesto Zavala, no date on recordwin v Justin Juuko, no date on recordwin v Lamar Murphy, no date on recordwin v Noel Panescoro, no date on recordwin v James Crayton, no date on recordwin v Arturo Morua, no date on recordwin v Roy Delgado, no date on recordwin v Leobardo Roman, no date on recordwin v Alfonso Garcia, no date on recordwin v Rogelio Castañeda Jr., no date on recordwin v Sergio Soto, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION no dated bouts · 32 UNDATED

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

How this record is compiled

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

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
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
undated L Zab Judah ——
undated W Anthony Mora ——
undated W Sergio Macias ——
undated L Antonio Pitalúa ——
undated W Miguel Angel Munguia ——
undated L Joel Casamayor ——
undated W Dairo Esalas ——
undated W Luis Arceo ——
undated L David Díaz ——
undated W Chikashi Inada ——
undated W Edner Cherry ——
undated W Michael Lozada ——
undated L Fernando Trejo ——
undated W Ernesto Zavala ——
undated W Justin Juuko ——
undated W Lamar Murphy ——
undated W Noel Panescoro ——
undated W James Crayton ——
undated W Arturo Morua ——
undated W Roy Delgado ——
undated W Leobardo Roman ——
undated W Alfonso Garcia ——
undated W Rogelio Castañeda Jr. ——
undated W Sergio Soto ——
undated W Jaime Ocegueda ——
undated W Justo Almazan ——
undated W Justo Sanchez ——
undated W Terry Evans ——
undated W Adam Gonzalez ——
undated W Mark Burse ——
undated W Carlos Alvarado ——
undated W Penpak Chokchai ——

5 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.74%

74″ reach on a 70″ frame

Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach74″ (188 cm)93rd pct
Height70″ (177.8 cm)90th pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight Boxing
Most active decadenot established — fewer than three of this record's bouts carry a date
CountryMexico

Record

Boxing record

28–5

33 bouts on record

Finish rate

61%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 65th percentile

By knockout: 17 (61%)By decision: 11 (39%)
  • By knockout 61%
  • By decision 39%
Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is José Santa Cruz's record?
28–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 33 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.

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