Rafael Ruelas
71″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 9th percentile
53–4
Rafael Ruelas has a reach of 71″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for 1990s boxing and the 9th percentile of the 203 compared here.
SOURCE·Rafael Ruelas — 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 203 1990s 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | W | Hicklet Lau | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | L | Kostya Tszyu | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1998 | W | Juan Baldwin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1998 | W | Tim Scott | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Rodney Wilson | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1997 | W | Mike Griffith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Jesus Arce | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Jaime Balboa | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1996 | W | Livingstone Bramble | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Mike Walsh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Tomas Barrientes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | L | George Scott | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | L | Oscar De La Hoya | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Billy Schwer | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Omar Pacheco | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Mike Evgen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Freddie Pendleton | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Manuel Hernandez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Conrado Lopez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Darryl Tyson | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Robert Rivera | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Roberto Burgos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Jorge Páez | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Benny Dominguez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Mauro Gutierrez | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Francisco Ortiz | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Francisco Lopez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Rocky Lockridge | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Juan De La Paz | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | L | Mauro Gutierrez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Narciso Valenzuela Romo | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Fernando Soldadito Teran | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Steve Cruz | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Vicente Gonzalez | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Tomas Valdez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Richard Abila | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1990 | W | Felipe de Jesus | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1990 | W | Job Walters | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Rosendo Alonso | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Abe Gomez | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Vicente Gonzalez | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1990 | W | Arturo Hernandez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Antonio Sanchez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Roberto Rios | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Simon Contreras | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1989 | W | Ricardo Flores | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Margarito Ruiz | DQ | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Jose Luis Vazquez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Joey Quinlan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Ben Gomez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Chilo Guzman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Benito Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Javier Lara | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Margarito Arreola | Decision | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Leopoldo Maya | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Robert Rayford | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Marcos Covarrubias | Decision | 4 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rafael Ruelas — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
71″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 203 1990s boxing fighters — no weight class is on record for Rafael Ruelas, so the comparison is by era. Median 2.95%.
Record
Boxing record
53–4
57 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — 1990s boxing median 66%, 80th percentile
The career, bout by bout
57 recorded bouts from 1989 to 1999. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
11y
1989–1999
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1989
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
57
57 with a date
Closest in build
1990s boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rafael Ruelas's record?
- 53–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 57 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.
