Len Harvey
122–14 · 127 recorded bouts · 1920–1942
122–14–10
Len Harvey finished 47% of 122 wins inside the distance — the 13th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Len Harvey — 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 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 587 heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | L | Freddie Mills | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1939 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Larry Gains | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1938 | W | Eddie Phillips | DQ | 4 |
| 1938 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Manuel Kid Abrew | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1936 | L | John Henry Lewis | Decision | 15 |
| 1936 | L | Jack Petersen | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Eddie Phillips | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Marcel Lauriot | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | D | Walter Neusel | Decision | 12 |
| 1934 | L | Jack Petersen | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1934 | W | Jimmy Tarante | DQ | 5 |
| 1934 | W | Larry Gains | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | W | Jack Petersen | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | W | Carmelo Candel | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1933 | W | Eddie Phillips | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | L | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Jack Casey | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Glen Moody | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1932 | W | Seaman Albert Harvey | Decision | 10 |
| 1932 | W | Theo Sas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1932 | L | Marcel Thil | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Len Johnson | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | George Slack | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | W | Fred Shaw | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1931 | W | Jerry Daley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1931 | W | Jack Hood | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | W | Rene De Vos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1931 | L | Ben Jeby | Decision | 12 |
| 1931 | L | Vince Dundee | Decision | 12 |
| 1930 | W | George Slack | Decision | 12 |
| 1930 | W | Dave Shade | Decision | 15 |
| 1930 | W | Henri Vandevyvere | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | W | Charlie McDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1930 | W | Steve McCall | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1930 | W | Frans Stevens | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1929 | D | Jack Hood | Decision | 15 |
| 1929 | W | Alex Ireland | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1929 | W | Frank Moody | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1928 | W | Amedee Dubus | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1928 | W | Leo Frick | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1928 | W | Johnny Sullivan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1928 | W | Auguste Lengagne | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1928 | W | Guardsman George West | DQ | 4 |
| 1928 | W | Emile Egrel | Decision | 15 |
| 1928 | W | Jean Forr | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1928 | W | Kid Nitram | DQ | 14 |
| 1927 | W | Marcel Thil | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | W | Emile Egrel | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | W | Jack Etienne | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1927 | W | Piet Brand | Decision | 14 |
| 1927 | W | Primo Ubaldo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Billy Farmer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Charles Screve | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Joe Rolfe | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Joe Bloomfield | DQ | 11 |
| 1927 | W | Maurice Prunier | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | L | Len Johnson | Decision | 20 |
Showing 60 of 127 recorded bouts, most recent first.
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Len Harvey — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 8: flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1920s — 88 of 126 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Len Harvey, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
122–14
146 bouts on record
Finish rate
47%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 13th percentile
The career, bout by bout
127 recorded bouts from 1920 to 1942. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
1920–1942
Longest unbeaten run
43
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1924
14 bouts
Recorded bouts
127
126 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Len Harvey's record?
- 122–14–10 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 127 bouts individually.
- How many of Len Harvey's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 127. 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Harvey sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing88 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
53 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsLen Harvey went 43 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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