What is Paul Pender's record?

40–6–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 44 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.

Paul Pender — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

40–6–2

Paul Pender has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, average for middleweight boxing and the 53rd percentile of the 123 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1949–1962

SOURCE·Paul Pender — 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 123 middleweight 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
1962	W	Terry Downes	Decision	15
1961	L	Terry Downes	KO/TKO	9
1961	W	Carmen Basilio	Decision	15
1960	W	Sugar Ray Robinson	Decision	15
1959	W	Gene Hamilton	Decision	10
1959	W	Jackson Brown	Decision	12
1959	W	Ralph Tiger Jones	Decision	10
1959	W	Joe Shaw	KO/TKO	5
1959	W	Young Beau Jack	DQ	3
1959	W	Joe Gomes	KO/TKO	6
1958	W	Willie Kid Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1958	W	Pete Adams	KO/TKO	4
1958	W	Jackson Brown	KO/TKO	3
1956	W	Jimmy Skinner	Decision	10
1955	L	Gene Fullmer	Decision	10
1955	W	Freddie Mack	KO/TKO	4
1954	W	Ted Olla	Decision	10
1954	W	Larry Villeneuve	Decision	10
1952	L	Jimmy Beau	KO/TKO	5
1951	W	Otis Graham	Decision	10
1951	L	Gene Hairston	KO/TKO	3
1951	D	Joe Rindone	Decision	10
1951	W	Norman Hayes	KO/TKO	7
1950	L	Norman Hayes	Decision	10
1950	W	Harold Sampson	KO/TKO	3
1950	W	Norman Horton	KO/TKO	2
1950	W	Ernie Durando	Decision	10
1950	W	Roy Wouters	Decision	10
1950	W	Bobby James	Decision	10
1950	W	Al Couture	KO/TKO	7
1950	W	Charley Dodson	Decision	10
1950	W	Leon Brown	KO/TKO	5
1950	W	Sonny Horne	Decision	10
1949	D	Bill Daley	Decision	10
1949	W	Jose Contreras	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Mike Gillo	Decision	6
1949	W	Ted Brassley	KO/TKO	3
1949	W	Eddie Richardson	KO/TKO	1
1949	W	Mike Saad	Decision	6
1949	W	Johnny Rice	KO/TKO	1
1949	W	George Meyers	KO/TKO	3
1949	W	Frank Theodore	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Mickey Lane	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Paul Williams	KO/TKO	1

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.87%

72″ reach on a 70″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	72″ (182.9 cm)	48th pct
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)	45th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Most active decade	1950s — 29 of 44 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

40–6

48 bouts on record

Finish rate

50%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 30th percentile

By knockout 50%
By decision 50%

The career, bout by bout

44 recorded bouts from 1949 to 1962. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1949–1962

Career span

14y

1949–1962

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1949

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

44

44 with a date

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Paul Pender's record?: 40–6–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 44 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

Middleweight boxing

The 269 middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Pender sits inside.

269 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

29 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

49 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Paul Pender went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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