What is Tippy Larkin's record?

134–15–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 132 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.

Tippy Larkin — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

134–15–1

Tippy Larkin finished 43% of 134 wins inside the distance — the 32nd percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1936–1952 · EARLIEST 12 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Tippy Larkin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30

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 2026-07-30. 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 292 welterweight 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
1952	L	Steve Marcello	KO/TKO	4
1952	W	Maurice Jenkins	Decision	8
1952	L	Joey Lupo	KO/TKO	1
1951	W	Alfredo La Grutta	Decision	8
1951	W	Manouk Markarian	Decision	8
1951	W	Humberto Sierra	Decision	8
1949	L	Bernard Docusen	KO/TKO	5
1949	W	Aldo Minelli	Decision	10
1949	W	Hy Meltzer	KO/TKO	2
1949	W	Al Evans	Decision	8
1949	W	Al Guido	Decision	10
1949	W	Giacomo Boderone	KO/TKO	4
1948	L	Charley Fusari	KO/TKO	6
1948	W	Ruby Kessler	Decision	8
1948	W	Willie Beltram	KO/TKO	5
1948	W	Joe Lucignano	Decision	10
1948	W	Billy Kearns	Decision	10
1948	W	Joe DiMartino	Decision	10
1947	W	Pete Manchio	Decision	10
1947	W	Ernie Petrone	KO/TKO	5
1947	L	Ike Williams	KO/TKO	4
1947	W	Lou Fortuna	KO/TKO	6
1947	W	Billy Graham	Decision	10
1947	L	Charley Fusari	KO/TKO	9
1946	W	Tommy Mills	KO/TKO	4
1946	?	Johnny Jones	—	1
1946	W	Willie Joyce	Decision	12
1946	W	Bobby McIntire	Decision	10
1946	W	Bobby Claus	KO/TKO	5
1946	W	Nick Moran	Decision	10
1946	W	Solomon Stewart	KO/TKO	3
1945	W	Nick Moran	Decision	10
1945	W	Willie Joyce	Decision	10
1944	W	Joey Gambaro	KO/TKO	2
1944	W	Jackie Peters	KO/TKO	2
1944	W	Freddie Archer	KO/TKO	8
1944	W	Allie Stolz	KO/TKO	3
1944	W	Lulu Costantino	Decision	10
1944	D	Bobby Ruffin	Decision	10
1943	W	Gene Ward	KO/TKO	4
1943	W	Doll Rafferty	KO/TKO	2
1943	W	Al Costa	Decision	10
1943	W	George Doty	KO/TKO	4
1943	W	Johnny Jones	Decision	8
1943	W	Patsy Spataro	Decision	10
1943	W	Harry Teaney	Decision	10
1943	W	Ruby Garcia	Decision	8
1943	W	Bobby McIntire	KO/TKO	5
1943	W	Joe De Jesus	KO/TKO	5
1943	L	Henry Armstrong	KO/TKO	2
1942	L	Beau Jack	KO/TKO	3
1942	W	Freddie Archer	Decision	10
1942	W	Abe Denner	KO/TKO	2
1942	W	Charley 'Dixie' Davis	KO/TKO	7
1942	W	Billy Davis	Decision	10
1942	W	Carmine Fatta	Decision	8
1942	W	Leo Rodak	Decision	10
1942	W	Jerry Moore	Decision	10
1942	W	Chester Rico	Decision	8
1942	W	Tommy Cross	KO/TKO	6

Showing 60 of 132 recorded bouts, most recent first.

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Tippy Larkin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	67″ (170.2 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing competed at 3: lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1940s — 68 of 132 dated bouts
Country	United States

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

winlossdraw / NC1935–1952

Record

Boxing record

134–15

151 bouts on record

Finish rate

43%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 32nd percentile

By knockout 43%
By decision 57%

The career, bout by bout

132 recorded bouts from 1935 to 1952. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

18y

1935–1952

Longest unbeaten run

19

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1936

22 bouts

Recorded bouts

132

132 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Tippy Larkin's record?: 134–15–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 132 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

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Larkin sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 1940s boxing

68 of these bouts fall in the 1940s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

36 FIGHTERS Henry Armstrong vs Tippy Larkin

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1943 Longest unbeaten runs

Tippy Larkin went 19 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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