Max Baer Sr.
81″ reach · +9.41% reach advantage · 92nd percentile
68–13
Max Baer Sr. has a reach of 81″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +9.41%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 92nd percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Max Baer (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
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 2026-07-24. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | L | Lou Nova | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1940 | W | Pat Comiskey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1940 | W | Tony Galento | — | 7 |
| 1939 | W | Babe Ritchie | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1939 | W | Big Ed Murphy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1939 | L | Lou Nova | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1938 | W | Hank Hankinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1938 | W | Tommy Farr | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Ben Foord | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1937 | L | Tommy Farr | Decision | 12 |
| 1936 | W | Dutch Weimer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | L | Willie Davies | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Tim Charles | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Andy Miller | — | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Bearcat Wright | — | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Cowboy Sammy Evans | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Cyclone Lynch | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Al Gaynor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Don Baxter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Al Frankco | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Cecil Myart | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Nails Gorman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Bob Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1936 | W | Cecil Smith | Decision | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Junior Munsell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1936 | W | James Merriott | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Buck Rogers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | Wilson Dunn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1936 | W | George Brown | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1936 | W | Harold Murphy | Decision | 6 |
| 1936 | W | Bob Fraser | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1936 | W | Tony Souza | Decision | 6 |
| 1935 | L | Joe Louis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1935 | L | James J. Braddock | Decision | 15 |
| 1934 | W | Primo Carnera | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1933 | W | Max Schmeling | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1932 | W | Tuffy Griffiths | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1932 | W | Ernie Schaaf | — | 10 |
| 1932 | W | King Levinsky | Decision | 20 |
| 1932 | W | Walter Cobb | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1932 | W | Paul Swiderski | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1932 | W | Tom Heeney | Decision | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Arthur De Kuh | Decision | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Les Kennedy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1931 | W | Johnny Risko | Decision | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Santa Camarão | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Jack Van Noy | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1931 | L | Paulino Uzcudun | Decision | 20 |
| 1931 | W | Ernie Owens | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1931 | L | Tommy Loughran | Decision | 10 |
| 1931 | W | Tom Heeney | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1930 | L | Ernie Schaaf | — | 10 |
| 1930 | W | Frankie Campbell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1930 | W | KO Christner | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1930 | L | Les Kennedy | Decision | 10 |
| 1930 | W | Ernie Owens | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1930 | W | Buck Weaver | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | W | Jack Linkhorn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | W | Tom Toner | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1930 | W | Jack Stewart | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 73 recorded bouts, most recent first.
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Max Baer (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.41%
81″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1930s — 58 of 73 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
68–13
81 bouts on record
Finish rate
75%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
73 recorded bouts from 1929 to 1941. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1929–1941
Longest unbeaten run
21
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1936
22 bouts
Recorded bouts
73
73 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kirk Johnson+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Greg Page+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Johnny Nelson+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Duane Bobick+9.47% 81.9″ reach · 93rd pct
- Kevin Johnson+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Steve Cunningham+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Donovan Ruddock+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Frank Bruno+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Max Baer Sr.'s record?
- 68–13 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 73 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sr. sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1930s boxing58 of these bouts fall in the 1930s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
71 FIGHTERS Max Baer Sr. vs Tony GalentoA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1940 Longest unbeaten runsMax Baer Sr. went 21 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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