What is Luis Santana's record?

42–17–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 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.

Luis Santana — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

42–17–2

Luis Santana finished 74% of 42 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for light middleweight boxing, where the median is 63%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1981–1999

SOURCE·Luis Santana (boxer) — 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 154 light middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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	Sam Garr	KO/TKO	10
1998	W	Jose Concepcion	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Kevin Sedam	KO/TKO	2
1995	L	Terry Norris	KO/TKO	2
1994	W	Terry Norris	DQ	5
1993	W	Ronnie Gibbons	KO/TKO	5
1993	W	Johnny Bizzarro	Decision	10
1992	L	Vinny Paz	Decision	10
1991	L	Crisanto España	Decision	12
1990	L	Glenwood Brown	KO/TKO	8
1989	L	Simon Brown	Decision	12
1989	W	Jorge Maysonet	Decision	10
1989	L	Vincent Pettway	Decision	10
1989	L	Aaron Davis	Decision	12
1989	L	Derrick Kelly	Decision	12
1988	D	Louis Howard	Decision	12
1988	W	Graylin Curry	KO/TKO	4
1988	W	Joe Garcia	KO/TKO	2
1988	L	Royan Hammond	Decision	10
1988	W	Roderick Starks	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Shawn O'Sullivan	KO/TKO	11
1987	L	Derrick Kelly	Decision	10
1987	W	Ali Salaam	KO/TKO	9
1987	L	Darrin Van Horn	Decision	10
1987	L	Tommy Ayers	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	Allen Braswell	KO/TKO	9
1986	W	Kenny Lopez	KO/TKO	4
1986	W	Tomas Perez	Decision	10
1986	W	Manning Galloway	—	8
1986	L	Nathan Dryer	Decision	10
1985	L	Milton McCrory	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Darrell Chambers	KO/TKO	3
1985	W	Gary Baca	KO/TKO	7
1985	W	Noe Ramirez	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Glenn Corbus	KO/TKO	2
1984	W	Dennis Horne	KO/TKO	4
1984	W	Felipe Canela	Decision	10
1984	L	Reggie Miller	Decision	10
1984	W	Art Geronimo	KO/TKO	4
1984	W	Brian Matthews	Decision	10
1983	W	Jesus Gonzalez	KO/TKO	2
1983	W	Agapito Ramirez	Decision	6
1983	W	Miguel Mayan	Decision	8
1983	L	Brian Matthews	Decision	8
1983	W	Manny Valenzuela	KO/TKO	1
1983	W	Doug James	KO/TKO	3
1983	W	Joe Molière	KO/TKO	7
1983	W	Dave Marsala	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Harry Truman	KO/TKO	3
1982	W	Chuck Peralta	KO/TKO	4
1982	W	Randy Holmes	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	John Herbert	KO/TKO	6
1982	W	Willie Paul	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Charles LaCour	KO/TKO	6
1982	W	Charles Williams	KO/TKO	1
1982	W	Jose Luis Cardenas	KO/TKO	2
1982	D	Mike Ruelas	Decision	4
1982	W	Don Estridge	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Ernesto Herrera	KO/TKO	4

10 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	69″ (175.3 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1980s — 49 of 59 dated bouts
Country	Dominican Republic

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Luis Santana, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1981–1999

Record

Boxing record

42–17

61 bouts on record

Finish rate

74%

of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 72nd percentile

By knockout 74%
By decision 26%

The career, bout by bout

59 recorded bouts from 1981 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

19y

1981–1999

Longest unbeaten run

13

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1982

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

59

59 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Luis Santana's record?: 42–17–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 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

Light middleweight boxing

The 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Santana sits inside.

161 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing

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

205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Luis Santana went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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