Heavyweight Boxing

Max Schmeling vs Paulino Uzcudun

A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.

Meetings on record

Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun met 3 times (1929, 1934, 1935). Max Schmeling won in 1935 by decision; drawn in 1934 by draw; Max Schmeling won in 1929 by decision.

SOURCE·Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026

How this head-to-head is established

This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
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Side by side

What both records stateAUG 2026
Max Schmeling		Paulino Uzcudun
76″ (193 cm)	Reach	—
73″ (185.4 cm)	Height	70.1″ (178 cm)
+4.1%	Reach advantage	—
56–10	Record	49–17
71%	Finish rate	67%
25	Longest unbeaten run	17
67	Recorded bouts	67
Orthodox	Stance	Orthodox

A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.

Common opponents

Both fought these 4. This is the comparison the siloed databases cannot make, because it needs every fight list linked to every other.

Opponent	Max Schmeling	Paulino Uzcudun
Joe Louis	W	L
Mickey Walker	W	L
Max Baer	L	W
Fernand Delarge	W	W

Both records, drawn

The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.

Max Schmeling

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1924–1948

winlossdraw / NC1924–1948

Paulino Uzcudun

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1923–1935 · 1 UNDATED

winlossdraw / NC1923–1935

Cross-references

Max Schmeling

The full ledger: 67 bouts, the reach placed in its cohort, and what the record does not say.

56–10 Paulino Uzcudun

The same, from the other corner — 67 bouts and the cohort Uzcudun is ranked inside.

49–17 Every confirmed matchup

The other 899 pairings whose own records confirm the fight happened — not a list of fights anyone imagined.

900 BOUTS

Max Schmeling vs Paulino Uzcudun

How this head-to-head is established

Side by side

Common opponents

Both records, drawn

Max Schmeling

Paulino Uzcudun

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