Battling Nelson

Battling Nelson finished 58% of 69 wins inside the distance — the 60th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing
Peak era	1900s
Country	Kingdom of Denmark

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

winlossdraw / NC1896–1917

Record

Boxing record

69–33

134 bouts on record

Finish rate

58%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 60th percentile

By knockout 58%
By decision 42%

The career, bout by bout

127 recorded bouts from 1896 to 1917. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

22y

1896–1917

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1911

17 bouts

Recorded bouts

127

126 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1917	L	Freddie Welsh	—	12
1917	W	Pierce Matthews	KO/TKO	8
1915	L	Jimmy Reagan	Decision	10
1915	L	Bobby Waugh	Decision	20
1915	W	Dale Gardner	KO/TKO	2
1915	W	Jimmy Fryer	Decision	25
1915	W	Stewart Donnelly	KO/TKO	3
1913	W	Cliff Ford	Decision	6
1913	L	Ad Wolgast	—	10
1913	L	Pat Bradley	—	6
1913	L	Gilbert Gallant	Decision	12
1913	D	Bay Wood	Decision	12
1913	W	Mike Malone	—	10
1913	L	Frank Ray Whitney	—	10
1913	W	Joe Burke	—	10
1913	W	Harry Dillon	KO/TKO	10
1913	W	Jack Sorenson	—	10
1913	L	Frankie Russell	Decision	10
1912	L	Yankee Schwartz	—	8
1912	D	Jim Bonner	Decision	10
1912	D	Teddy Maloney	Draw	6
1912	L	Leach Cross	—	10
1912	W	Art Stewart	—	10
1912	D	Steve Ketchel	Decision	15
1912	L	Mickey MacIntyre	—	12
1912	W	Andy Bezenah	—	12
1912	D	Sammy Trott	Decision	15
1912	D	Young Togo	Decision	6
1912	L	Tommy O'Rourke	—	10
1911	W	Jack Redmond	Decision	20
1911	L	One Round Hogan	—	10
1911	W	Willie Howard	—	10
1911	W	Bobby Wilson	—	10
1911	D	Andy Bezenah	Draw	10
1911	W	Joseph Spero	KO/TKO	6
1911	D	Louis De Ponthieu	Draw	10
1911	W	Tommy Moore	KO/TKO	9
1911	D	Frank Loughrey	Draw	10
1911	W	Monte Dale	Decision	15
1911	L	George Alger	—	6
1911	L	Philadelphia Pal Moore	Decision	12
1911	W	Willie Beecher	—	10
1911	L	Milburn Saylor	Decision	12
1911	W	Billy Nixon	KO/TKO	10
1911	W	Tommy Gaffney	KO/TKO	5
1911	D	Percy Cove	Decision	6
1910	L	Owen Moran	KO/TKO	11
1910	D	Anton LaGrave	Decision	15
1910	W	Monte Dale	KO/TKO	3
1910	L	Ad Wolgast	KO/TKO	40
1910	W	Eddie Lang	KO/TKO	8
1909	L	Ad Wolgast	—	10
1909	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	5
1909	W	Dick Hyland	KO/TKO	23
1908	W	Joe Gans	KO/TKO	21
1908	D	Abe Attell	Decision	15
1908	D	Jimmy Britt	Draw	10
1908	L	Rudy Unholz	—	10
1908	W	Jack Clifford	KO/TKO	5
1907	L	Jimmy Britt	Decision	20

Showing the 60 most recent of 127 recorded bouts.

17 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Battling Nelson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-06. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.