What is Lew Tendler's record?

145–16–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 146 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.

Lew Tendler — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

145–16–8

Lew Tendler has a reach of 70″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +6.09%, long for bantamweight boxing and the 89th percentile of the 70 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1916–1928 · EARLIEST 26 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Lew Tendler — 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 70 bantamweight 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
1928	W	Nate Goldman	KO/TKO	5
1928	L	Ace Hudkins	Decision	10
1928	W	Jack McFarland	KO/TKO	8
1927	W	Hilario Martinez	Decision	10
1927	W	Vincent Forgione	Decision	10
1927	W	Pat Haley	KO/TKO	1
1927	W	Sailor Darden	Decision	10
1927	W	Willie Greb	KO/TKO	4
1927	W	Danny Gordon	KO/TKO	8
1927	L	Ace Hudkins	Decision	10
1927	W	Young Harry Wills	KO/TKO	8
1926	L	Tommy Jordan	DQ	4
1926	W	Farmer Joe Cooper	Decision	10
1926	W	Danny Gordon	Decision	10
1926	W	Al Conway	—	6
1926	W	Joe Reno	Decision	10
1926	W	Mickey Forkins	KO/TKO	5
1926	L	Meyer Cohen	Decision	10
1926	W	Georgie Russell	KO/TKO	6
1926	W	Basil Galiano	Decision	10
1926	W	Don Boyer	KO/TKO	6
1926	W	Jack McFarland	—	10
1925	D	Joe Dundee	Decision	10
1925	W	Jack Zivic	Decision	10
1925	W	Tony Julian	KO/TKO	3
1925	W	Nate Goldman	KO/TKO	5
1925	W	Joe Reno	KO/TKO	5
1924	W	Joe Tiplitz	Decision	10
1924	W	Joe Libby	Decision	10
1924	W	K.O. Mars	—	10
1924	D	Bobby Barrett	Decision	10
1924	L	Mickey Walker	Decision	10
1924	W	Sailor Friedman	Decision	10
1924	W	Ted Marchant	KO/TKO	4
1924	W	Pinky Mitchell	—	10
1924	W	Ray Mitchell	Decision	10
1924	L	Nate Goldman	Decision	10
1923	W	Pep O'Brien	Decision	10
1923	W	Jack Palmer	—	8
1923	L	Benny Leonard	Decision	15
1923	W	Tim Droney	—	10
1923	W	Pal Moran	—	8
1923	W	Jack Lawler	KO/TKO	5
1922	W	Johnny Mendelsohn	—	10
1922	W	Ever Hammer	—	8
1922	L	Benny Leonard	—	12
1922	W	Bobby Barrett	KO/TKO	7
1922	W	Johnny Dundee	Decision	15
1922	W	Tim Droney	—	8
1922	L	Charley Pitts	DQ	7
1922	W	Alex Hart	—	8
1922	W	Johnny Sheppard	KO/TKO	3
1922	W	Oakland Jimmy Duffy	KO/TKO	8
1922	?	Mel Coogan	—	1
1922	W	Barney Adair	—	8
1921	W	Sailor Friedman	Decision	15
1921	W	Manuel Azevedo	KO/TKO	2
1921	L	Rocky Kansas	Decision	15
1921	W	Tim Droney	—	8
1921	W	Willie Jackson	—	10

Showing 60 of 146 recorded bouts, most recent first.

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.09%

70″ reach on a 66″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 70 bantamweight boxing fighters. Median 1.81%.

-3%bantamweight boxing reach advantage10%

Measurements
Reach	70″ (177.8 cm)	89th pct
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)	72nd pct
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Bantamweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, lightweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1920s — 78 of 146 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

145–16

171 bouts on record

Finish rate

26%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight boxing median 48%, 14th percentile

By knockout 26%
By decision 74%

The career, bout by bout

146 recorded bouts from 1913 to 1928. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1913–1928

Career span

16y

1913–1928

Longest unbeaten run

77

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1918

17 bouts

Recorded bouts

146

146 with a date

Closest in build

bantamweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Lew Tendler's record?: 145–16–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 146 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

Bantamweight boxing

The 194 bantamweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tendler sits inside.

194 FIGHTERS 1920s boxing

78 of these bouts fall in the 1920s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

53 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Lew Tendler went 77 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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